Students, again we appeal to you not to allow the Co-operative Society to die through your neglect. In last Monday's issue, Professor Ames, the president of the society, agreed to take upon himself the responsibility of seeing that the liabilities, which are now $1000, should not exceed $200 at the end of the year, and that there should be a surplus of stock over liabilities of at least $600, provided $600 was raised by voluntary subscriptions. Before the meeting on Monday evening, $350 was thus raised; and during the meeting $67 was added to this amount, leaving only $183 needed to complete the required sum. One of the two weeks given to raise this, has passed, and yet but about $70 had been subscribed up to last Saturday.
Students! are you doing your duty in thus failing to contribute your mite towards the maintenance of this society? Will it be due to your carelessness and indifference that Harvard will have the disgrace of failing in an enterprise which is being carried on with success at other colleges? No, we think not. We feel sure that, now that examinations are over, you will come forward and avert the pending misfortune; but, because the amount necessary to be raised is so ridiculously small, do not, therefore, think that your help is not needed. And yet do not look upon the Co-operative Society as an object of charity. and think that you are doing it and the University a favor, in thus coming to its rescue. You are, on the contrary, making an investment which will yield you a handsome return. It is for your own interest that the society succeed.
Members of the University, who are not members of the Co-operative Society, it is due principally to your negligence that the experiment of co-operation has come so near failing at Harvard. We ask you now to come forward and join the society. If you cannot do it out of generous, you can at least do it out of selfish, motives. Although the vusiness will be conduced on a somewhat reduced scale, the benefits derived will still be very great.
We hope that this is the last appeal we shall be obliged to make, and that before to-morrow night the required amount will be raised.
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