Word: hands
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sole active function of these stockholders being to choose the Board of Directors, integrity and fidelity on the part of the stockholders--already vouched for by their long continuance in appointments at the hands of the President and Fellows--are the main requisites. With abundance of friendly advisers always at hand in the persons of representative graduates and undergraduates to whom the stockholders would no doubt freely resort for confirming the wisdom of their own selections, wise selection of Directors would be assured. Should the management at any time become unsatisfactory to the ticket-holders, the interests of the stockholders...
...issue in the Co-operative matter seems to come down to this: On the one hand there is a theory of what co-operation ought to be. This theory has been proved mistaken and impracticable by actual trial,--for, as has been said in previous communications, the attendance at the annual meetings has varied from five to thirty out of the 2000 members, the only undergraduates usually being the CRIMSON reporter or some other Freshman who wishes to take in every side of College life. On the other hand there is the possibility of having an institution which shall furnish...
...members of the Society, the power of the members to elect officers and thus determine directly the policy of the Society, tends to defeat government by public opinion, it does not tend to secure it. The mere fact that persons can carry a change of policy by inducing a hand-full of persons to come to the annual meeting makes it unnecessary to acquaint the members at large with the proposal to inaugurate a change. Men who habitually neglect to exercise their right to vote, and yet wish to enjoy the advantages of government by public opinion and in accordance...
...charge of a business effecting sales of $250,000 a year, from time to time must inaugurate changes of policy as to which there is room for honest and intelligent differences of opinion. Such men are entitled to an intelligent verdict upon their policy. On the other hand, a poorly attended annual meeting affords no guarantee whatever of such a verdict. The men in charge of the Co-operative Society are entitled to an intelligent verdict, not only in their own interest, but above all in the interest of third persons and innocent persons whom they are morally bound...
...final game of the class baseball series is today. Every Sophomore should be on hand to support the team. JAMES A. BURGESS...