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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dollars, now in hand, could then be refunded to those who have so generously given their assistance. This would place all members on the same footing. By this means the society would have a surplus of ready money at the end of the year which would enable them to start next year clear of debts...
Such men as organized the Harvard Co-operative Society are not to be found in college every year, or every few years. It took a great deal of hard work and disinterested enthusiasm on the part of influential students to start co-operation here four years ago, and if the society dies now, it will be long before the men are found in college to start another...
...have to decide for themselves. If they wish co-operation, (but in a less expensive form than at present), they can have it by raising the sum before Monday night. Otherwise the society dies,-and it may be a long time before men are found here, energetic enough to start another. Meantime, Cambridge tradesmen will grow very, very...
This vote was passed with much reluctance, for the society is rendering very great service to its members. But the course herein recommended will enable the society to meet all its obligations and to start another year without embarrassment, and with an honorable record, in case it shall be deemed expedient to continue its good work hereafter...
Just before our Christmas holiday, a little down east "schoolmarm" desired to take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston...