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...Cooperative Society is not a dream. Already the beneficial effects of its establishment are beginning to be felt. To meet the movement one Cambridge dealer, not among the "affiliated tradesmen," has refitted and furnished his store, and announces to students a reduction of 30 per cent. from ordinary retail prices. More may be expected to do likewise soon. "Competion is the life of trade...
Great surprise was occasioned by the announcement that a certain prominent book-seller of Cambridge, frightened at the brilliant prospects of the Co-operative Association, has betaken himself to intimidating his fellow-tradesmen. This man has threatened the most dire evils to Cambridge merchants who shall support or aid in any way the attempts of the students to assist themselves in the matter of purchases. "I will arouse," said he, "such a powerful public sentiment against the thing that any merchant who aids these fellows will regret it." There is no man in Cambridge who has made as much money...
...operative Society during the week has been completing its arrangements with the Boston tradesmen to secure goods at a considerable discount for its members...
Every day brings new evidence of the need of the Co-operative Association. The extortions of some of the tradesmen of Cambridge are shameful. They have flourished long enough on the outrages they have had the impudence to inflict on students, and now is the time to put an end to their extortions. We are glad to see that the Co-operative Association has determined not to start on a scale that would be too extensive, but we hope that they will gradually take means to free students as far as possible from purchasing any of the necessities from Cambridge...
...reported that the police have been searching the rooms of Yale students for signs of tradesmen kept there as trophies, and that several have already been arrested. Some have escaped by claiming that the signs were left by former occupants of their rooms. Others are on the "ragged edge...