One thing, and one thing only, can be done to keep co-operation alive and to give us the benefits of the society for the rest of this year, and that is a voluntary assessment footing up to about $600. With that sum, and the sale of the greater part of the stock, it will be possible to run the society through the year on a smaller scale, -say coal and wood, book orders, stationery, tennis goods, and the list of affiliated tradesmen, and employing two clerks, and the superintendent only one day in the week. If there are three hundred men in college who realize that the benefits of the society would be worth $2 to them, and if these men will take the trouble to pay their $2 (returnable at once in case the amount fails to reach $600 at the office of the society, between now and six o'clock Monday evening), we can keep up the society, There is not a man in college so poor that he could not save at least $5 this year, through the society, and most of us would lose $25 a year by higher prices in Cambridge, after the death of co-operation. Surely, in a simple matter of business like this, a mere question of saving money, of palpable self interest, we ought to be able to act like men of sense, and not like a lot of children! Every member of the society, every thinking student, ought to feel it his duty to deposit his $5 at the rooms before Monday evening. If more than $600 is secured, a percentage of it can easily be returned at once. If less than $600 is secured, co-operation is dead, we are all more or less out of pocket, and the college is disgraced by a failure. It will be impossible to put off settling up the affairs of the society to a later date than Feb. 3d, forasmuch as delay and running expenses would be in danger of leaving the society in debt.

This is a simple question that the students have to decide for themselves. If they wish co-operation, (but in a less expensive form than at present), they can have it by raising the sum before Monday night. Otherwise the society dies,-and it may be a long time before men are found here, energetic enough to start another. Meantime, Cambridge tradesmen will grow very, very fat.