EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There are a number of improvements that might be made in the Co-operative Society, and we would like to offer to its notice one or two suggestions. There is no apparent reason why a man's payment should be deferred ten days or more after the sale of his second-hand books or furniture, and we are unable to see what is to prevent the payment of the money as soon as the article is sold. Everybody knows when it is likely to be bought, and there seems to be no necessity at all for waiting a week or so to send a postal card. The society might keep a book in which every article sold second-hand would be entered; arrange the names of the members alphabetically, so that a sale could be easily determined, and allow it to be open to public inspection. This would cause much less trouble to both parties. In such matters as these, now that the Cooperative Society has entered on the second year of its existence, it ought to be more similar to a regular store, and have less red-tape in its business transactions.
T.
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