While we feel what a fearful loss the death of co operation would be to Harvard, nevertheless we do not propose to defend the management of the Co-operative Society. If the machine has been enlarged beyond the demands of the students, those are to blame who enlarged it. If there are only 790 men in college who care enough about their money to go to the trouble of buying where they can buy cheapest, then the directors were quality of an error of judgment when they counted on there being more than a thousand such men. But we shall suffer sadly without co-operation in some form, and the thing to do now is to secure it, and secure it, if we can in a better form than that which has just proved itself at fault.
It ought also to be said, in justice to Mr. Waterman, the superintendent, that the directors, and all students who know the facts, are convinced of his zeal for the welfare of the society, and of his irreproachable integrity.
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