Word: storing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gross profits from sales amounted to $62,794.88 and the total expenses of conducting the store, including wages, interest, taxes, insurance, amounted to $48,657.96. After allowance has been made for depreciation of stock and fixtures and a reserve set aside to provide for all overdue or doubtful accounts, the sum of $15,303.81 remains available for distribution in dividends to members. Of the Society's total sales the dividend bearing purchases amount to about $189,000, or approximately 60 per cent. of the whole, so that the directors are able to recommend to the stockholders the payment...
...Harvard Co-operative store was the first of its kind in this country, and although somewhat similar enterprises have been established at various university centres during the intervening 27 years, as for example at Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Chicago, and California, the Harvard store is much the largest and most profitable among them. In fact, its vol- ume of annual business is about as large as that of all the others put together. Some idea of the service which the Cooperative renders to the University in general may be gained form the statement in the annual report that more than...
...what appears at first glance to be an attempt by the Co-operative to gain a monopoly of the stationery business in Harvard square. Although the society is naturally anxious to increase its business as much as possible, this was not the primary reason for taking over Thurston's store. It was realized that the new subway terminal in the Square would cut into the basement of the present building and that this would not leave enough room for the steadily increasing transactions of the store. The opportunity offered to open a branch at Thurston's was just what...
...gratifying to learn that the Co-operative is the largest and most successful store of its kind in this country. The superintendent frequently receives inquiries from other colleges as to the society's management and methods and it is recognized everywhere as a model to be copied...
...operative Society Store--Open at the usual hours...