Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...still find it more convenient and more to their advantage to patronize the Co-operative than to buy elsewhere. While the increased entrance fee would determine them to make all use of all advantages that their membership gave them; for the more they bought through the Co-operative, the less would be the percentage they paid for its maintenance...
...these results, the superintendent and directors decided on certain additions and enlargements in the business and work of the society, calculating on a membership of one thousand and five per ct. profit on transactions. But it turns out that they have a membership of only 790, with proportionately less transactions, and have retained but three and a half per cent. on the transactions. This, continued through the year, would leave the society with a deficit of about $1500. The whole machinery is at last in admirable working order, but it could just as well do three times the work...
...proverb of the crusts of bread, entrusted to the tender care of the merciless waves, which returned after many days in the shape of countless biscuits and rolls. has once more been exemplified; and this time somewhat nearer home than the scene of the original occurrence. A little less than a year ago the predecessor of the DAILY CRIMSON in the province of daily journalism at Harvard, gave vent to its long pent-up feelings on the subject of the strange language in which the Quinquennial catalogue has been printed since the dark ages. This language was reported on good...
These figures have disappointed the reasonable expectations of the direct ors in two respects. They had looked for a membership exceeding 1000, with a proportionally increased business ; and they had counted upon a rate of profit not less than five per cent. It is believed that the profits must have been greater than the figures indicate, and it is possible that the small percentage of profit appearing is due to mistakes in the inventory of stock recently taken...
...running expenses of the society for the rest of the year, (5 months), cannot be safely estimated at less than $1750. The income for the same time cannot be placed higher than $800. At the end of the year. therefore, the society, instead of having as now, a surplus of $550, would be confronted with a deficit of $400. Furthermore, this deficit would be materially increased by a forced sale, at a most unfavorable time of the year, of the society's stock, for the society would have to meet its obligations in June...