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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR: - By a recent change in its constitution, this Society is enabled to supply books and other goods to all members of the University, whether members of the Society or not. It desires to become the medium of supply for all text-books. To accomplish this purpose, the Society will undertake to procure at its own risk the number of books which any instructor thinks needed for his courses for the ensuing academic year, provided that the instructor will give the Society exclusive information as to the books he will use. A monopoly is obviously necessary to warrant...
...Philosophy department remains unchanged, except that a new text-book will be used in Course...
...service at Appleton Chapel yesterday evening was well attended by the students and friends of the college, to hear the Rev. William S. Rainsford, of St. George's Church, New York. The text chosen was taken from the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy, the tenth, eleventh and twelfth verses, and the sermon was clear, eloquent and comprehensive. In the course of his remarks, Dr. Rainsford said that the lesson that God was teaching the children of Israel was one that all nations should learn, and God has been continually trying to teach this same lesson to the different peoples...
...That goods be sold in general at a slightly greater advance above cost, and at slightly higher prices, than at present. The prices, however, to be kept below ordinary retail prices; the prices of college text-books are not to be raised at all; and in special cases prices may be reduced, at the discretion of the Board of Overseers and the superintendent to any extent required to hold the business of the Society...
...University. The Society ought to be a general agent for various objects, which it cannot touch at present. It ought, for instance, to print and sell at cost the various abstracts, summaries and outlines used in so many courses of instruction. It ought to import all the foreign text-books used. It cannot do these things while its dealings are restricted to its own members, an obstacle which is removed by the new scheme...