A new phase in the opposition of Cambridge tradesmen to the Co-operative Society has of late begun to manifest itself offensively to such a degree that it deserves public notice. The prominent bookstore whose trade is most seriously affected by the Co-operative Society is not content to charge, as a counter irritant, exorbitant prices for all articles which are necessary to the student, but has now added to its system of trade a course of gross misrepresentation concerning the prices charged by the Co-operative Society. The whole attitude of such opposition to the society is rendered more irritating by the fact that the booksellers in particular are aided in their systematic course of overcharging by many of the college instructors who make them the medium through which they publish the notes to their courses. Thus students often are compelled to pay for a small pamphlet the same price as for a regular text book. The only means by which such abuses as these can be eradicated is, for every man who has not already joined the Co-operative Society to do so, and thus at once remove all chance for a successful opposition to its valuable work for the university.
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