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...membership of the Co-operative Society this year is 2,487, a loss of 62 members since last year. This decrease of 2 4-10 percent, however, is proportional to the decrease since last year in the number of students in the University, so that those figures, which at first sight might seem to point to a loss in business, in reality have no such significance. In fact, the Co-operative Society has so far this year done a large business, and it is expected that the year will prove unusually successful...
...savings in salaries, he points out, have been made in the annual appointments, the salaries of professors and other permanent officers having been maintained. To meet the demands of the present situation, a large factor in which is the falling in the rate of interest of funds from 7.82 percent, in 1871-72 to 4.77 percent, in 1903-04 and the consequently greater dependence of the University on students' fees, in spite of the enormous growth of the invested funds, President Eliot names the two obvious resources; raising tuition fees and procuring a larger endowment. The former resource he believes...
...this 16 per cent of stock every year would inevitably be within the reach of the Society. after the holder's annual receipt expired; there would be absolutely no hunting up of departed members to get their shares away from them; and the extra bookkeeping involved by this 16 percent transfer is surely well worth paying for if it enables the student members of the Society to retain legally effective control in their own hands. To secure representative votes, all elections should be required in the By-Laws to be held by Australian ballot. (which is no more than...
Thus exorbitant rates of interest amounting in many cases to one hundred percent for a two months' loan, are extorted: and the lender evades the provisions of $3 of Chapter 77. "When there is no agreement for a different rate, the interest of money shall be at the rate of six dollars upon each hundred dollars for a year, but it shall be lawful to pay, reserve, or contract for any rate of interest or of discount: but no greater rate than that before mentioned shall be recovered in any action, unless the agreement to pay such greater rate...
Scratch--C. D. Burchenal '01, F. W. Hitchings 1M., F. W. Palfrey 3M., R. M. Henderson '02; ten per cent -- H. W. Holmes '03, H. C. Barber 1L., T. D. Roberts '03; fifteen per cent -- H. W. Barnum 1L., L. B. Reed '03; twenty percent --M. G. Buchnan 1L., E. C. Moore '03, E. Breed '03, R. H. Gould 1Dv.; twenty-five per cent--E. Swift '03. The judges of the tournament will be Howard Clapp '99, Atherton Brownell, and Sewall Cabot...