Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edinburgh University students are erecting at a cost of $75,000 a Students' Union, after the plan of the Unions at the English universities. It is to contain a library, gymnasium, reading, dining and club rooms...
About fifty members of the Co-operative Society met last evening in Sever 11 to discuss the new plan for the conduction of the Society, published in Wednesday's issue. Professor Taussig explained the provisions of the new scheme, which were adopted by an unanimous vote, with a few unimportant amendments. It was moved by Mr. Furber that the business of the Society be thrown open to all members of the University for the remainder of the college year. An amendment that goods be sold to non-members at a slight advance on the regular price was lost. The original...
...judgment should not be hasty, but yet the plan seems admirable in every respect. A full meeting to night could do no better than sanction the proposition submitted by the directors...
...directors of the Co-operative Society propose, in the recommendations printed in another column, a scheme, which, if adopted, will make a considerable change in the Society's methods of doing business. The change would be practically to a plan very similar to that of the famous Rochdale Pioneers. Instead of selling goods at the lowest possible price, they are to be sold not much below ordinary retail prices, though still somewhat below them. On that method, the Society will naturally make profits; and these profits are to be divided at the end of each year among all members. That...
...Harvard Glee Club has given up the plan of giving a joint concert with the Yale, Princeton and Columbia Glee clubs, on account of the difficulty found in arranging a convenient date...