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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...
...policy shops, which have sprung up in all the cities of the State. There are fourteen in Indianapolis, and it is estimated that they do a business of nearly $20,000 a week here alone, and $50,000 in the State. The police report an increase of 200 per cent. in juvenile thieving since the shops were opened...
...most worthless are weeded out during the first year, under a very watchful process, which rests finally upon the test of frequent examinations. The actual depletion of the freshman class through direct dropping at Christmas-time and in June, and voluntary surrender under fear of dropping, is ten per cent. The same process is repeated in the following years." This preparation has been especially directed to prepare the student to develop the power of self-direction, and not merely to make him acquainted with certain subjects...
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Benjamin's father kept a store in Saug Centre - I was fully persuaded of that, and I almost knew what he kept. I could almost see the signs pasted in the window on large sheets of coarse, brown paper, "Our Five-Cent Cigar can't be beat. Try it." "A large supply of Dupee's Sugar-Cured Hams just in." "Try our new Self-Adjusting Mouse Inducer; every housekeeper should have...