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...Collegiate Instruction of Women or with the Episcopal Theological School-without the requirement of a membership fee. One of the chief objects thus attained will be that all students alike may procure their textbooks and books of reference at wholesale cost, the Society charging a very slight profit on such books, by exceptions...
...other departments the profit charged will be somewhat greater; but the original plan of keeping down the cost of all college necessaries will be adhered...
Washing could thus be profitably done, and smaller prices than now obtain; and health, profit and cheapness for once at least join hands. Why should not the co-operative add this enterprise to its many successes instead of subjecting us to the unknown horrors of the Troy laundry...
...hands, a means of effecting material savings for all students. The Society will sell all text-books to students at a slight advance above cost, which will bring its prices considerably below those of ordinary importers or booksellers. The Society intends to sell text-books at the smallest profit possible, making, in this case, an exception from its regular business...
Note. - It will be observed that the basis of division is the proportion of profit on each member's business to the profit on the business of all members. The total profit would naturally be larger than that on the business of members, since the Society would expect under the new scheme, to make sales to non-members, and to make a profit on its business with them as well as on its business with members. Other methods of dividing profits are possible; e. g. equal division among members, but the directors recommend the method mentioned as being...