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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Your editorial this morning, following in the wake of the Herald and Advertiser comments on the action of the Harvard club of Washington without any knowledge of the facts in the case. Please allow me, as a member of the club, to point out the important details that you have omitted...
Instead of a voluntary assessment to continue the co-operative, some proposed a compulsory one of $1.00 per member. But by this income the necessary $600.00 could not have been collected in less than a week or two, and in case of failure, there would have been a debt in closing up the accounts of the society...
This assessment would not amount to more than $2 or $3 per member, and every member who really makes use of his privileges saves more than this in six months. In future years the cost of membership might be doubled. Members would 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...
...MEMBER...
...higher prices in Cambridge, after the death of co-operation. Surely, in a simple matter of business like this, a mere question of saving money, of palpable self interest, we ought to be able to act like men of sense, and not like a lot of children! Every member of the society, every thinking student, ought to feel it his duty to deposit his $5 at the rooms before Monday evening. If more than $600 is secured, a percentage of it can easily be returned at once. If less than $600 is secured, co-operation is dead...