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...Society should be incorporated with a charter which embodies these following features: The number of shares originally authorized should be as large as the maximum probable ticket membership of the Society for any number of years to come. The par value of each share should be the price of a membership ticket at present, one dollar; or, if that be not feasible under the Massachusetts law, as one of the Committee's legal supporters has already tentatively objected, two dollars, which would be sufficient to remove any "small capital" difficulty. One share of stock should belong to each member...
...Harvard Co-operative Society makes all of its purchases on a cash basis--wisely, in order to secure the maximum discount. Practically its only outstanding obligations, therefore, are its leases, and its realizable assets, its stock, are vastly in excess of these liabilities. In proportion to its business it is probably more sound financially than even the Memorial Hall or Randall Hall Dining Associations, excellent institutions as they are. The Directors now propose that this very successfully managed co-operative organization be discontinued, for the new form of organization is co-operative neither in form nor in effect...
There is no fee charged for tuition at the School and the maximum cost of a year's study, everything included, is not more than...
...national championship preliminaries a score of 60 per cent of the maximum must be attained...
...system of observation employed, known as Argelander's method, is essentially as follows. A series of stars of constant brightness is selected, as near as possible to the variable to be observed, in such a way that the brightest is somewhat brighter than the variable at its maximum intensity, and the faintest somewhat fainter than the variable at minimum. Between these extremes the stars differ one from another in brilliance by about half a magnitude, and they are designated by letters in the order of brilliance. This sequence of stars of known magnitude enables the brightness of the variable star...