About 20 students, anxious to wield their rights of suffrage, showed up Wednesday at what might be called the Coop's annual stockholders' meeting. As it was, they were called upon to vote on only two issues, since the secretary's report was accepted without a ballot, and the treasurer's report ("If you turn to page seven," said Mr. Humphreys, "you'll see that the Coop is fairly well heeled") was also unopposed.

Coop president Cole raised the first question when he asked, for his own edification, how many students used rough-dry laundries and how many preferred a finished bundle. The vote showed four in favor of rough-dry, 15 behind the finished bundle, and one abstention. "Maybe we should have added rough-drying to out service," Mr. Cole concluded. "Actually, the Coop should never be in the laundry cleaning business. We have more complaints--now understand, we don't have many--but we have more complaints there than we do on the merchandise side. That's why most department stores, to use an expression, do not 'monkey' with the laundry business."

The other vote did not come until late in the question period, after Mr. Cole had answered such queries as "When you buy British books, how much is the British shilling worth in American cents?" and "Why was the Coop set up to begin with?" A flannel suited youth in the back row raised his hand:

Q. I'd like to ask you about the Coop's policy on lines of merchandise. Why do you carry something like refrigerators when they take up so much space?

A. Our alumni and faculty members number 3,000. They are good, solid members of the Society. They are the segment that wants refrigerators.

Q. What is your refrigerator turnover in a year?

A. I can't really tell you.

Q. Is it 100?

A. Are you particularly interested in refrigerators?

Q. Why, yes. I would think that people would be more inclined to go to a specialty store.

A. We are a Cooperative. There is a demand for refrigerators.

Q. Do you have a rough idea about the turnover? 100 a year? 300?

A. Oh yes, 100 a year.

Q. Does this make up for the space it takes?

A. Oh yes, of course. Does that clear up the question? I'd like to get to the bottom of this.

Q. How about television sets?

This repartee kept up for a while longer, until . . .

Q. One final question.

Q. Oh, it doesn't have to be the last.

Q. Yes. Why doesn't the Coop carry classical records?

Some rather heated debate arose on this matter, and Mr. Cole asked for a show of hands on how many students were interested in phonograph records. Although the negative was never put, Mr. Cole announced that "quite a few" favored the measure, and the matter was summarily dropped.

As it turned out, this was the end of the day's balloting. Almost everyone decided to leave at 5:56, before Mr. Cole had a chance to answer the question: "Does the Coop have shoe repair department?" There wasn't even a motion to adjourn, and the meeting may conceivably still be in progress.