CO-OPERATIVE'S NEW SCHEME

The directors of the Co-operative have begun, in connection with the book department of the society's store an experiment in the purchase of entire editions of the text books used in some of the larger College courses. During the summer contracts were made with some of the large publishing houses for the printing of whole editions of several books and these are now on sale at the Co-operative. For use in Economics 1, which has an enrollment of over 500 students, an entire edition (1000 sets) of Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics" was prepared. These books will be sold at $3 per set of two volumes, and sales will participate in the Co-operative's regular dividend. Hitherto the price has been $4. It is stipulated in the Co-operative's contract with the publishers, however, that the special edition shall be sold only to members of the University.

In Government 1 Also.

For the use of students in Government 1 an entire edition of President Lowell's "Government of England" has been secured. Copies of this work will also be sold at $3 per set of two volumes, less the usual dividend. An edition of Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government" is also in the press and will shortly be placed on sale at 75 cents per copy. All these books are uniformly bound in a durable binding of dark green; the paper and plates are the same as those used in the regular trade editions. If the experiment is successful, the directors of the Co-operative hope to increase the list of special editions and in the course of time to be able to supply at greatly reduced prices all text books now used at the University on any considerable scale.

The present arrangements have been made possible by the fact that the Co-operative has become the largest retail customer of all the college text-book publishing houses. Last year over 50,000 college text books were sold at the society's store.