APPOINTMENT OF CO-OPERATIVE.

The appointment of the Co-operative Society as official purchasing agent for the University is worthy of comment. The saving in cost and convenience which this new move should effect is shown by the fact that during the year 1909-10 the different officers and departments of the University used more than eighteen thousand dollars' worth of stationery, and purchased this from no fewer than sixty-seven different stores in Boston and Cambridge.

This new appointment signifies that Harvard is as modern and as progressive in the adoption of strictly business methods as it is in the initiation of educational innovations. Incidentally, the appointment is also a well-deserved recognition of the excellent management of the Co-operative.