The announcement of the coming annual meeting of the Co-operative Society calls up the question of what the society has done for us in the first year of its existence. We too often hear students affirming that the prices given by the Co-operative Society are no lower than those in the Cambridge stores. Now, in the first place, this is in a large number of instances not the case, and where it is true the society is obviously the cause, and no one can doubt that its existence is necessary to keep the prices down. Such criticisms of the society are not only absurd but show a want of public spirit. But that carefully considered criticisms and suggestions from the members of the society may be of great value to the management cannot be doubted, and such criticisms and suggestions should be brought forward at the coming meeting.
The success of the society in one year has come up to the expectations of the most sanguine, and its possibilities for the future seem almost unlimited.
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