Acacia Journal - November 1914 - Vol. 10, No. 1

W. G. MANN, ACTING GRAND EDITOR

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

A. A. JENKINS, Ha• vm·d, 60 State Street, Boston, Mass.

R. I. MUNDHENK, Ohio State University, 0. S. U., Columbus, 0.

S. E. CONYBEARE, Iowa State College, Station A. Am e s, Iowa

J. G. MARSHALL, Leland Stanford University, Stanford, Cal.

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NATIONAL OFFICERS

GRAND PRESIDENT

GEORGE E. FRAZER Urbana, Illinois

GRAND VICE-PRESIDENT R. CECIL FAY Olathe, Kansas

GRAND TREASURER

J. A WOODWARD Leetonia, Ohio

GRAND SECRETARY

HARRY E. KILMER Centerview, Missouri

ACTING GRAND EDITOR

W. G. MANN

21 0 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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NOVEMBER, 1914 No . 1

FOREWORD.

The growth, development and strength of Acacia have come to be recognized in the Fraternity world as without precedent. The ten years of activity have marked the establishment of twenty-six chapters, seven of which own their own homes, five are, at present, making final arrangements for its purchase or erection of chapter hou ses, and eleven are renting thejr residences. All but two of the twenty-six are not only w1Cle awake to the needs and neces s ities of the Fraternity as a whole, but have become prominent in their particular spheres. Two thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine loyal Acacians, scattered to all parts of the world and repre senting the highest ideals, stand out clearly in their respective communities and demand that we maintain our present position. A backward glance at the history of the Fraternity shows unequalled progress; the future of Acacia depends not on ly upon her Grand Officers, but upon every active Acacian.

The establishment of a separate editor for THE Jo uRNAL was necessitated by the increased amount of work falling upon our Grand Secretary. The recent additions to our chapter roll brought with them new members. The decision to strengthen internally and combine into a more compact mass the widely scattered chapters caused Brother Kilmer to advocate in the May JouRNAL the establishment of a sepa rate editor for the JoURN AL . The Grand Conclave of 1914 in pursuance of his suggestion created the office of Grand Editor. The Committee on the JouRNAL outlined its idea s of a successful AcACIA JouRNAL in recommending the featuring of alumni news, conditions at various chapters, Masonic relationship and Conclave problems to be met. The committee also suggested that THE JouRNAL become a news magazine treating the interests, activities and problems of · the chapters and colleges in a magazine style. · They proposed that the editor develop a system of correspondence with each of the chapters and alumni associations and through them obtain the material needed.

Your editor, in an attempt to carry out the ideas as set forth by the Conclave through the Committee on JouRNAL, has divided the Acacia world into four districts following the Dye Resolution of 1912 and has appointed an associate editor for each district. Brother A. A. Jenkins, well known to Conclave attendants for his ever manifested interest, will furnish the news from the Eastern which will include Harvard, Franklin, Cornell,

Ya-le, Columbia Penn. State and Syracuse. Brother R. I. Mundhenk will keep in touch the Central district comprising Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Purdue, Wisconsin and Chicago. The Western section, consisting of Kansas Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, Ames, Iowa City, Colorado and Manhattan, will fall under the watchful eye of S. E. Conybeare, while the Pacific district will be ably represented by selections from J. G. Marshall.

The editorial policy can be stated in a few words. It is the intention of the editor and his assistants to follow the suggestions of the .Committee on JouRNAL submitted to the Grand . Conclave. The material for THE JouRNAL must come from the chapters, and the associate editors will solicit alumni news, articles dealing with conditions at various chapters and articles on Masonic relations. College news will form a part of THE JouRNAL and we recommend that each chapter send the associate editor of his district the daily or semi-weekly newspaper. The assistant editor will select the items of interest and forward them to this office. Who's Who in Acacia must come from the local chapters. Masonic Notes of Interest must be selected by the Fraternity at large, if this section is to become general.

Your chapter letter, from now on, will be sent to the associate editor of your district and, for his correction, must reach him the first of each month prior to publication. It is suggested that the alumni news section be kept separate from the chapter letters and that it be given more prominence.

The alumni want to know where the old men are and what they are doing. Tell them through the alumni news column. They are interested in the new developments at their Alma Mater. Tell them in the College Notes section. These two features will do more to build up a large alumni subscription list than any attractive cover, group of pictures or selection of articles can do. The latter items will be additional inducements. A larger list of alumni subscribers will make a larger and better JOURNAL possible, keep the interest of the alumni in the local chapter, develop truer and stronger Acacia feeling, and result in much good for the Fraternity.

Each chapter will receive additional issues of THE JouRNAL to be sent to 1?heir most active alumni members with the request that they send Brother Harry E. Kilmer, of Centerview, Missouri, one dollar for a year's subscription and the Acacia Directory, 1914. The next issue will contain the results of this first campaign published according to the standings of the chapters. Secure subscriptions for THE JouRNAL and you will not only strengthen your hold upon your alumni, but will have rendered the Fraternity a service which you owe Acacia.

w. G. MANN, Acting Grand Editor.

The Acting Grand Editor, elected by the last Conclave, and the editorial staff, appointed at the order of the same Conclave, do not offer their writings as literary examples. Matters of interest to the Fraternity at large, comment intended to bring forth discussion, statements of facts, and suggestions occurring to them, will be introduced in the simplest possible manner and they trust that in your reading you will remember the following quotation:

"Read not to contradict, nor to believe nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider." '

· -Bacon, of Studies.

THE CONCLAVE.

HARRY E. KILMER, Grand Secretary.

The 1914 Conclave was a notable event in Acacia. It was notable for the fine spirit displayed, for the work accomplished and for its environment. It would be very difficult to find a finer group of men than those who responded to the roll call on Wednesday morning, June 24th, in McMillian Hall, at Ann Arbor. There was very little time lost. The Conclave settled down to the work at hand. The minutes will give in detail the accomplishments of this Conclave.

To one who has attended several Conclaves there is always the inclination to enter into comparisons of one Conclave with another. There is little profit in this, but we do feel that each Conclave is stronger and better than the preceding one. There were not as able debaters in this Conclave as our Brothers Pierrot, Frazer and Jenkins. There were men who were their equals in attaining their ends, however. We had no representatives equal in repartee to Brothers Heins and Guilfoyle, but there was some humor aBoat. No Conclave has had a more even group of men than the 1914 Conclave. Brother Lott, of Syracuse, was as effective as any member of the Conclave, but a year's experience was a material aid to him.

The spirit of this Conclave was wonderful. No delegate or alumnus present at the closing banquet will forget its manifestation. h is beyond our poor powers to describe it. Perhaps your delegate can tell you something of its spell on him. All through the Conclave there was evidence of a keen and earnest desire not only to carry a particular point, but to ascertain what was the best thing to be done for all concerned. For example, to quote the brother from Wisconsin: "I am for the proposition as stated, but if this is to work a hardship on Nebraska, then let us modify it, if it can be done without injuring any other chapter." Certainly it is worth while to be present at such a gathering of real men.

The work of this Conclave must be left to the minutes. It may be well to mention that this Conclave took up the work of revising the laws of the Fraternity. Brothers Fay and Wilson had prepared a report for the Conclave and this was used as the basis of the work. The constitutional amendments passed will be submitted to the chapters about the first of February for their vote. We hope that the chapters will give as much time to this work as Brothers Fay and Wilson did.

Environment has much to do with us all. We are more or less its creatures. The Conclave was held under most favorable conditions. The meeting place was ideal, and we were housed in Michigan's Chapter home. Certainly all things conspired to make the setting for the 1914 Conclave perfect.

We trust that the Fraternity may be blessed with many more such Conclaves and that the spirit of each may be as helpful, the work as good, and the hospitality and entertainment as 'genuine as that given at Michigan.

He that shall pass judgment on the records of our life, is the same that formed us in frailty.;-Stevenson.

MINUTES OF THE NINTH GRAND CONCLAVE.

McMILLIAN HALL, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MICH., JuNE 24, I9I4.

Acacia Grand Conclave opened Wednesday, June 24, I9I4, at IO.IO a. m., with prayer by Grand Vice-president George E. Frazer, who acted as presiding officer at the meetings of the Conclave, in the absence of Grand President Francis W. Shepardson.

The Conclave was ca!Jed to order by the Grand Vice-president, with the following National Officers present: George E. Frazer, Grand Vicepresident; R. C. Fay, Grand Treasurer, and Harry E. Kilmer, Grand Secretary.

The roll call showed that representatives were present from all of the chapters except the following: Purdue, Minnesota, Colorado, Ames.

Grand Vice-president Frazer read a letter from Grand President Shepardson, from Manila.

The reports of the Grand Officers were then called for.

REPORT OF THE ACTING GRAND PRESIDENT.

In the absence of Grand President Francis W. Shepardson, in the Philippines. it has been my privilege, since December zo, 1913, to act as Grand President of the Frat ern ity. I hope that Grand President Shepardson will send a message to this Conclave, if, indeed, he is not here in person

The report of the Grand Secretary will give evidence of the growth of the Fraternity in the initiation of men. The extension of the Fraternity and the advancement of its id ea l s depends to a very significant degree upon the character of the men that are initiated from year to year. Nothing that I can say can be of more real weight than the expression of the earnest hope that the chapters will initiate the very best available men to be found in the respective institutions at which they are • located. Houses are important; alumni interest is important; national leadership is important; but none of thes e things are so important as the selection of good men and true to carry on the great work which this Fraternity is destined to do.

The most far-reaching event of the year was the establishment of the chapter at the Kansas State Agricultural College. The chapter is well established. The petitioning club gave proof of its virility by successful life in a chapter house before installation . The installation its elf was a memorable event. All of the Grand Officers were present; delegates from many of the chapters were present; the sister chapters at Kansas and Nebraska sent goodly delegations; the Grand Lodge of Kansas was represented by the Grand Treasurer; the public interests of Kansas were represented by the presence of Justice Mason of the State Supreme Court; the college was represented by the presence of the President. I speak of these things because all of them indicate the standing of the Fraternity as a national institution, and the standing that a petitioning club must have if it seeks to gain admittance to our fellowship.

As Grand Vice-president, I have had numerous inquiries from institutions of varying grades as to the possibilities for new chapters. The Masonic Club at Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio , presented a formal petition to me, but, on my advice , withdrew this petition. The chapter at Ohio State University was not of the belief that conditions at Ohio Northern University warranted the establishment of a chapter there at the present time. I bluntly mention this because it is my earnest belief that no new chapter should be established without the fullest consent of neighboring chapters.

All of us must realize the very limited opportunities for the extension of the Fraternity by the establishment of new chapters. It is not conceivable that the University Fraternity of Acacia will ever establish chapters at strictly professional schools. Nor is it conceivable that the Acacia Fraternity will be content to establish a chapter at any school whose enrollment is not sufficiently large to guarantee the presence of at least fifty Masons in the student body, at all times. These limitations are practical limitations. They cannot easily be overcome A recital of these limitations should impress us with the fact that our growth must be an internal growth.

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It is a matter of sat i sfac ti on t o r epor t to you that the several, chapters have had successful yea r s. We have not been able to do anything towards the revival of the chapter at Northwestern University. With this single exception the chapter r oll is clear. '

A very g r ea t deal of time has been given by Brother L. E. Knorr in the perof a uniform scheme of c h apter acco untin g . Much work, of course, yet remams t o be done. The fact that we now have a uniform scheme gives evidence that we are thinking serious ly of the financia l plans and financia l conditions of our chapters. It is a pleasure for me to h ear men from different university towns say that th e Acacia Fraternity a l ways pays its bills. Financ ial matters can scarcely ever be made sent iment a ll y attractive, but their i mportance is basic I urge upon this Conclave a fu ll discussion of the financia l plans of the various chapters.

In past Conclaves, a very great dea l of discussion has been had as to standards of membership. We have v igorously debated whether or not our chapters should initi a te men who a r e members of other soc ia l fraternities. The time for this debate has passed. A ll but two or three of our chapters have adopted by-laws under which members of other social fraternities are not eligible for pledging. The majority opinion in this matter is so clear that there need be but little discussion concerning it. We are a socia l fraternity-we compete w ith other social fraternities. I anticipate th at w ithin a very few years a ll of our chapters w ill have adopted the single standard for membership. National legislation on this point at this time d o es not seem to be adv isable.

In my opinion, the time has come for a carefu l cons ideration of the practice of many of our chapters in initiating comparative ly l arge numbers of honorary members and of facu lt y members. No one can ga insay the great he l p that we have had from honorary members and from faculty members. I trust that both classes of members may a l ways be retained by the Fraternity. At the same t i me, care should be taken that hono r ary membership i s an honor because of its unique distinction, and that fa c ulty membership is apprec iated because it is not wide l y distributed.

The mission of the Acacia Fraternity is to li ve Masonry in American universities. The successfu l accomp li shment of this ideal demands that each of our chapters shou ld li ve in an adequate ch apte r house. A ll of our chapte r s do now li ve in chapter houses with the excep ti o n of the ch apter at Columbia. The Columbia chapter has started a ho us e fund, and I fee l that the tim e is not f ar distant whe n a ll of the chapters of Acacia will be maintaining Acacia homes.

A tt ent ion should be called t o the activ iti es during the past yea r in the erection and purchase of chapter hou ses The hou ses built by the Acacia Fr aternity at Purdue, Michigan, and Illin o is a re a grea t credit to Acacia. Th ey represent g rowth and stability. Moreover, these h ouses repre sent careful planning. They are not ostentatious ; they are not lu xu ri ous. Th ey are comfo rtabl e, adequate an d artistic. Here i s a real expression of Masonry in the character of houses that s tud ent Masons have built.

It is gratifying to know th a t all of our chapters, even the new chapter a t Manhatt an, have definite plans on foot for the ownership of their own chapter home. I want particularl y to congratulate the ch ap t er a t the University of Minne so ta on the purchase it has recentl y mad e. I. think that great credit is due to th e chapter at the University of Chica go for the successful maintenance of a real chapter home under city conditions.

The Gr and Secretary has repeatedly called your attention to the necessity for conservative financing in the purchase and erection · of chapter houses. A vigorous chapter, of course, will dare to go ahead, but the spirit of progress must alwa ys be accompanied by careful and definite plans as to money matters. A chapter undertakin g building plans will do well indeed to consult the committee appointed by the Grand Council. It is not enough that there should be enthusiasm only in house building or house buying.

I trust that this Conclave will take definite action towards the organization of alumni chapters. The alumni chapter at Chicago and the alumni chapter of Lower California are organizations full of great promise. It was my pleasure to attend the first annual banquet of the Chicago alumni chapter. I feel that that banquet deserves to be counted among the great days of the Fraternity. It is very important to us that we should retain the interest of our alumni. It is very important to the alumni that they should retain their fellowship in Acacia. Let us have at this Conclave legislation that will enable a gronp of alumni to securely establish alumni chapters.

THE ACACIA JOURNAL

During the past year, there has been a great deal of discussion as to the character of THE AcACIA JouRNAL. Under the editorship of the present Grand Secretary, THE JouRNAL has come to be a great force in the life of all of the chapters, and in the life of the national Fraternity. The greatest need of THE JouRNAL is more contributors. No matter who the editor may be, his success in producing a great fraternity magazine will finally depend upon the articles and news items that each one of you and that each one of your chapters sends in. If we discuss the future of THE JouRNAL at this Conclave, let us do it with an appreciation of what THE JouRNAL is now and of what it may be made to be with a wider field of contributors and contributions.

During the past year real progress has been made in the matter of Fraternity insignia. A contract has been let under which Fraternity pins of standard size and design are to be purchased from one jeweler at a profit to the National Fraternity. I anticipate legislation at this Conclave setting forth a plan for the operation of the official fraternity jeweler system. The Fraternity has definitely decided upon old gold and black as its colors. We have adopted a flag. We have before us at this Conclave an official coat-of-arms. The delegates here have power to change any or all of these things. It is my earnest hope that our present insignia may be allowed to stand. I believe that it is appropriate; that it is full of meaning, and that years of use will enrich our symbols with a living sentiment.

It was our hope to have a song l;Jook and directory ready for distribution at this Conclave. These books are in preparation and will doubtless be distributed to the chapters early in the next school year. While the delay is to be regretted, yet I believe that it is better to wait for the finished product. All of us have been especially interested in the song book. We need its cheer and we must indeed be thankful to the men in the Fraternity who are giving their attention to it.

The Fraternity is fortunate in having as its historian, Dr. Francis W. Permit me to urge every member of the Fraternity to send to the Grand Secretary and to Doctor Shepardson all data that should find a place in our national archives. The present Conclave should seriously discuss the proposed plan of locating the national archives in the room provided in the Michigan fraternity house.

The Acacia Fraternity is a fraternity of college Masons. As such, we are interested in the broad and ever growing field of Masonic research. The other chapters of the Fraternity have noted with great interest the Masonic meetings at Harvard. This is a good work. Let us have Masonic lectures and Masonic meetings at all of our chapters. If I may add a personal word, I should like to say that, in my opinion, it is much more desirable to hear a series of lectures on Masonic history and Masonic philosophy than it is to form a third degree team. What we need in Masonry is a growing interest in the idealism of the Fraternity. May Acacia have a prominent part in that movement!

At this Conclave, your attention will be called to a movement just started under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Iowa-a movement that seems likely to result in a national society for Masonic research, and in the establishment of a creditable magazine of Masonic history, Masonic philosophy and Masonic extension. The present Conclave will do well to discuss this movement and, in my opinion, to give the movement a very warm endorsement.

The Acacia Fraternity has a place in the councils of the National Interfraternity Conference. Each chapter should be a member of the local interfraternity conference of its university, unless indeed there is no such local conference. We are affected by all the movements within the college fraternity world. I believe that our chapters at Wisconsin and Ohio State Universities had an honorable part in the fight a year ago against anti-fraternity legislation. The establishment of Acacia homes in the college world should at least be one of the many forces that are now raising the entire plane of college fraternity life. Not the least of the things that the Acacia Fraternity can do is the moral encouragement that our chapters can afford to college men by an example of sane college life.

The many things that I have touched upon in this report give but little evidence of the abundant life that there is today in our Fraternity. As we gather here to celebrate our tenth anniversary, we may look back upon pioneer work of a very high order. Our faces are set to the future. Acacia has found a place in the college world. She hal strong reason to believe that there is work for her to do. Fellowship, we have; frienda, we have; mutual service, we can afford one to the other; long will we remember the joy of our meetings. But through it all, all of us must catch the real meaning Acacia. We must see the necessity for the living of Masonry. We must feel

strength of our ideals and, if we can but catch that spirit , our Conclave here today will be full of that harmony which is established on great principles and which comes out of a sense of real work accomplished and real work yet to be

REPORT OF THE GRAND SECRETARY.

For the Period from September 15, 1913, to June 15, 1914. Including a Financial Statement and Journal Report.

Brothers; At the close of my fifth term of office, I submit the following report of the work of the Grand Secretary's Office, covering the period above stated, together with certain recommendations.

The special duties assigned to this office by the last Grand Conclave have been performed. Again I ask that a full and complete investigation of the methods employed and the work performed be made by the respective committees, and that the delegates feel free to make such inquiry as they may deem advisable. I hope that no brotherly or personal consideration will prevent any brother from criticising the work done or the methods pursued, for as delegates you owe it to the chapters and to yourselves to see that the work of this office is performed properly and that such methods are pursued as will insure its greatest usefulness to the Fraternity.

We shall note the work which has been performed under the respective headings which follow:

MEMBERSHIP RECORDS.

There has been no failure on our part to keep hammering away on this important branch of our work. We have had some secretaries who did not forward the records promptly. The result of their work can be seen from a comparison of this year' s summary with last year's. On the whole the secretaries have co-operated in this work. Several of the alumni have helped and there has been progress made toward complete records.

We feel that a number of the chapters have not kept duplicate records complete as required by our laws. We have received a number of the duplicate files for binding and have found that there was a great deal of copying to do from our records before the file was ready to be bound. We were glad to help perfect the files, but there should be in each chapter a complete file of the membership records, and each chapter should see to it that they are there.

There is no cause for discouragement. There has been progress made. We hope that no member will be initiated unless his record and duplicate are filled out and that the original record will be sent promptly to the Grand Secretary's Office. Will you delegates urge upon your chapters these two things: the proper preparation of the records of all members initiated and a continuous and persistent effort to complete your files?

The summary will give the full statement of the records in each chapter and will be given below .

MEMBERSHIP.

The chapters have guarded well the portals of the Fraternity. There have only been two chapters reporting expulsions. One of these should have acted long ago. We are to remember that the expelling of a member is a serious matter, but we are also to remember that when duty demands action of this kind, the seriousness of the business is no excuse for not meeting the issue.

We have had some trouble w\th the matter of honorary membership. There seems to be a misunderstanding of the Grand Council's right in this matter. The law is plain and we have tried to make clear that no chapter has the right to initiate an honorary member without the permission of the Grand Council. As delegates, please see that your chapters are made aware of this law. We have now two cases of members being initiated without the approval of the Council. I know of no way of improving this condition of affairs, except by one of two expedients. One is to abolish honorary membership entirely and that I do not approve of, and the other is to provide a fine of $25 on a chapter for the election of a member to honorary membership witl10ut the approval of the Grand Council. I recommend that this last suggestion be considered by the Conclave.

I submit herewith statement of the membership of each chapter and the number of records on file and the number missing.

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A comparison of the summary just read and the one given in my report of last year will give us a gr eat deal of pleasure and add to our enthusiasm. There has been a substanti a l incr eas e in the number of initiates and there is in nearly all the chapters a sufficient body of active members to maintain the chapter to a high state of efficiency without burdening too heavily the individual members.

There are still some membership records missing. Most of the chapters have reduced their numb e r- The following chapters have more membership records missing than at the time of the last report: Aleph , Teth, Heth, Mem, Nun, Samepk, Tsadhe, and Shin. Tsadhe is the chief offender. The other chapters have only one or two missing

There need be no comment made here further than to state that the secretaries of these chapters have failed in one of their important duties to the chapter and the Fraternity.

CHAPTERS.

This has been a year of achievement in the life of our chapters . I do not believe that taken as a who l e the chapters have ever shown the unity and solidarity of purpose that has marked the work of this year .

I shall b e specific in pointing out some of the chapters and I do so because I feel that it is my duty to do so.

The work of A l eph Chapter has been ve r y satisfactory. The building and dedication of their new house and other evidences that we see about us mark the mother chapte r as one of the real leaders on our chapter roll, irre spect ive of the fact that she is first in point of time. We take pleasure in noting the great development that has taken place at Beth Chapter. We visited a few hours at Gimel Chapter and met many of the members of thi s chapter. Gimel stands as one of our best chapters.

Daleth Ch apte r has had a grea t year. I have sometimes despaired of Daleth, but they have had there for the last two ye a rs a gro up of men that any chapter might wish for. These men have made every sacrifice that could be made to establish the chapter on a better financial bas i s and there has been much achieved for Acacia at Neb rask a. He Chapter has kept the stride. It has been among the first in the line of march for severa l years. The work of Waw and T eth Chapters has been entirely satisfactory.

Heth Chapter h as had a year of real work. The new house h as absorbed a great deal of their energy. Y odh Chapter h a s made p r ogress durin g th e year. The roll there is not as large as it was severa l years ago, but the chapter is gaining in strength. Finances at Yodh n eed more careful atte nti on. Kaph Chapter has been ranked with Daleth in the years I have known of their work and like Daleth it is fast coming to the place w here we wan t Acac ia to stand at Minnesota.

As for Lamedth Chapter, there has been no failure on th e part of this c hapt er to keep its place, but I am sure that we are pleased to know that the leader sh ip of this chapter is not so consp icuous as it has been in former years . Other chapters are beginning to report clean slates to the Conclave; their dues and fees paid; their membershi p records on file; their chapter correspondence fu ll and complete; their alumni kept in the harness and a ll those necessary el ements that go to make a chapter s t and out in its respective community and in the F r aternity. No one wants to see Lamedth Chapter halt in the march, but we shall a ll be pleased when every chapter keeps step w ith her.

My own chapter has had a ve ry successful year . The men have been work in g hard to g ive Acacia a suitable home at Missouri and we w ill see one of our hopes r ealized in the n ea r future.

Nun Chapter has had a r athe r h a rd year from a financial standpoint at least. There has been a r ead justment of their house financial aff airs and I feel that the chapter will eventually grow s tr onge r because of this change. Samehk Chapter, the baby chapter when I assumed this office, has had a good year and the work of the chapter has been satisfactory, with the single exception of keeping up their membership records.

Ayin Chapter h as h ad a very successful year despite the fact that their financial statement would not indicate this. The chapter has not been in a house until the last part of last year and this h as incurred some indebtedness locally but I feel sure with such men as Groves and McDa v id a nd the so rt of men the chapter has on its roll the issue will be met promptly. Pe Chapter has had a good year. There is no doubt now of the stability of this chapter.

Tsadhe Chapter has not maintained its usual high standing. Tsadhe Chapter is one of the chapters without a house that in the years past showed a real li ve chapter spirit. They are behind financially and the records have not been kept up and the chapter correspondence has not been satisfactory during a large part of the year. I feel that most of the chapter's short coming is due to poor work on the part of the chapter secretary. Koph Chapter has had a good year but their correspondence with this office has not been as complete as it should have been. Resh Chapter has had a year of growth and progress, and the correspondence with this chapter has shown marked improvement

Shin Chapter is fighting a good fight and the chapter will win. The chapter has some indebtedness, due in a large part to the same causes as that of Ayin's . We feel confident that the chapter will meet this in the near future.

Aleph-Aleph began the year with two active members. But Brothers C:trr and Daily have kept up the battle. There were seven active men on May rst and three have been initiated since and the outlook for next year is much brighter.

Aleph-Beth Chapter was suspended by the Grand Council last December in pursuance of the directiof\. of the last Conclave. I have been unable to get the charter or records from the members of this chapter. I have written to -a number of the members but have not been able to get any satisfaction from them. Under the present

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law the Council is helpless in such cases. The amendment that will be formally adopted at this Conclave will give your Grand Council the power to take from our rolls members who do not remember or fail to keep their obligations solemnly entered into. The duty to do so should be met promptly by your Grand Officers.

From the report made by Brother Hagen at the last Conclave we were a bit pessimistic about the outlook at Colorado but the chapter has had a very good year. With such men as Dickson on the roll we need not worry about the future at Colorado.

The baby chapter is a real chapter. I should not be surprised to find in a few years that the Manhattan group will be standing side by side with Gimel and this will be a source of pride to all of us.

Aleph-Daleth Chapter is making progress. The chapter is following the plan of payin g as you go. This insures ultimate success.

I have called the roll of the chapters and given you my candid opinion of their work. The opinion may be a mistaken one but I feel sure that you will agree with me that it is one honestly held. I am optimistic of the Fraternity. Standing as we do at the Fraternity's birthplace at the close of the first decade of its history, I feel that we can point to this roll of chapters and their work and position in their respective institutions as a certain indication of the great future that lies before our Fraternity.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The correspondence of this office is one of its heaviest burdens. It has been and is one of the most pleasant duties we have to perform. The same helpful relations have continued to exist between this office and the chapte r s. I have striven to do my whole duty. Some of the letters criticise and do it plainly but most of them are a pleasure to write We hear from a number of the alumni from time to time.

Our files will show a very full and accurate account of chapter affairs. Some of the chapter secretaries have not been overly attentive to their work, but on the whole we have had the co-operation of the chapter secretaries.

I trust as a Grand Officer I have been of assistance to the chapters and to every member who has made a call upon the office. It has been my earnest desire to make this office a clearing house of fraternity thought, ideals and information. I have sent out' 965 letters during my te r m of office, besides numerous packages and parcels as may be seen from the postal register, which will be turned over to the Auditing Committee.

FINANCES.

Our finances were never in better condition than at present. Some of the chapters owe considerable sums, but in most cases these are old debts and these have been diminished. We shall be ab le to pay the expenses of this Conclave out of the cash on hand.

In this connection, I wish to urge that no change be made in our dues and fees for the coming year

The financial report will cover in detail our finances and is herewith submitted:

*There is to be added to the above cash, inter est to the amount of $2I35 and a deduction of 25 cents for exchange, making a total of cash on hand June 20, {9I4, of $3529.03.

The cost of the directory will be around $400 and this is a liability . The re are no other liabilities, except those incurred by the other Grand Officers for which no b ills have been presented.

STATEMENT OF CHAPTER ACCOUNTS.

ACCOUNTS AND VOUCHERS

I have nothing new to add on this subject. I may be pardoned, however, in calling your attention to the progress that has been made in this office and the chapters in this important matter. I think that the books of this office and the vouchers are adequate and the progress that has been made in the chapters make us sure that another faint hope of former years has at last been realized.

I quote from my former report as follows: "In line with what has been no new subject on my part since becoming a member of the Fraternity, I have striven to keep an accurate set of books and full and complete vouchers for all money expended. I trust that your Auditing Committee will make a full investigation of my books and accounts; that they ascertain what money has been received and how disposed of, and that for all money expended by me they find whether vouchers are on file. I ask this as a personal favor and as a duty they owe the Fraternity. The Auditing Committee is charged with the important work of verifying my accounts and seeing what funds were received and how they have been expended. My books should fully ·explain these matters, and I trust that no brotherly or person a l consideration will in the least induce them to refrain from criticism if such is merited. The Fraternity as a whole has the right to know and ought to know- what has become of its funds. You delegates should determine in this Conclave what work your Grand Officers are to carry forward for the coming year and then you should make provision for the funds to carry forward this work; and your successors at the next Conclave 1should see that the work has been performed and the funds expended as directed. This can be done only when adequate books and vouchers are kept."

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JOURNAL.

I have already had a great deal to say on the subject of THE JouRNAL. THE JouRNAL and records have been much belabored subjects on my part. I shall be brief in my recommendation. The work of this office is growing beyond one person's time and ability and the office could well be relieved of the work of editing THE JouRNAL. The practical difficulties in the way, to our mind, however, are very great and will no doubt be fully considered in this Conclave. ·

It might be well to try a separate editor for a year and see what improvement the change will bring about. My opinion of what THE J OUR;N AL should be differs from some of you no doubt. In making any change in THE JouRNAL I respectfully urge that you consider my article on this subject in the May JouRNAL.

The cost of printing and sending THE JouRNALS for the last year was $763.97 . The November number cost $252.17; the February number cost $206-46, and the May number cost $305.34.

I recommend that there be three issues of THE JouRNAL next year. I wish also to commend the chapters for their publications sent out during the year. Several of these were excellent.

DIRECTORY.

It is a source of disappointment to me that I ha·ve not been able to present at this Conclave the new directory. In fact when the first notice was sent to the chapters in October I hoped to have the directory in the hands of the chapters before the close of the year. Some of the chapters did not get their material to me until I had written them letter after )etter and the last chapter directory came the 26th of April. We had then to complete the geographical list. The result is the directory is still in waiting in the hands of the pri_nter.

CONCLAVE.

The time and place of meeting of the next Conclave should be determined by this Conclave. I wish here to make a statement that I feel will have very little effect; it has not had in the past. Conclaves are not held for the pleasure of the delegates and Grand Officers, their purpose primarily is the transaction of Fraternity business. We are still of the opinion that a Conclave will accomplish most for the chapters if held shortly before the beginning of the school year or at the beginning of the school year. The reasons for this are apparent. The delegate returns to his chapter fresh from the Conclave. He imparts his enthusiasm to the chapter; he remembers vividly the things to be done. It will take a lot of hammering this fall to bring before the chapters some of the things the delegates will have forgotten during the interim.

The Conclave cost last year the sum of $13o8.67. I hope you realize that a Conclave means a large expenditure of fraternity money and that we should expend our money wisely.

THE MINUTES.

The minutes of the last Conclave are here and they are in a very sad state. I think it would be well for this Conclace to authorize either some Grand Officer or a committee to correct the record of the last Conclave. This should be done for the future.

ENDOWMENT FUND.

The total of cash on hand given in the financial statement includes $65.85 which is the present Endowment Fund. The Conclave last year, I am certain, directed that the amount be increased to $100 and that the Grand President and Grand Treasurer loan this amount out on interest. I was unable to find any mention of this in the minqtes so there was no action taken, I believe. I recommend that this action be taken by this Conclave.

CARD CASES AND TRAVELING CARDS.

There have been numerous calls for traveling cards. Several cases have also been distributed. An itemized statement of this account will be turned over to the Auditing Committee.

ALUMNI ORGANIZATIONS.

I would again respectfully urge upon you a consideration of our a lumni organizations. I think that some formal recognition of these organizations should be taken by this

INVENTORY.

In compliance with our law I submit herewith an inventory of property held by me belonging to the Fraternity: I seal; I Oliver typewriter; I desk; I Lundstrum filing cabinet; I Edison mimeograph; I letter file; 5 membership record books; ledger; journal; cash book; ritual record book and roll book; I steel dye for membership records at Buxton & Skinners's; I steel aye for charter with the Rounds- Truman Co.; 72 card cases; I4J rituals; I postal scale; several boxes of JouRNALS and files. There is also some stationery and office supplies on hand. There is postage on hand amounting to 38 cents.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

I submit herewith the following recommendations:

I. That great care be exercised in making amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws.

2. That the minutes of this Conclave be published in the first issue of THE JouRNAL, and that the minutes together with other matter shall be published as the November JouRNAL; that two other numbers of THE JouRNAL be issued; one on February Ist and one on May Ist. The chapter editors shall send in the letters for these numbers of THE JouRNAL not later than October 5th; January 5th and April Ist; and that delegates notify their chapter editors of the date of the first letter being due.

J. That the subscription price of THE JouRNAL be one dollar per year or fifty cents per single copy to all, except active members or orders made through the chapter secretaries when the same shall be thirty-five cents per copy; that each active member whose per capita tax is paid on December Ist shall be entitled to the November JouRNAL free, and that each active member whose per capita tax is paid on May Ist shall be entitled to the February and May numbers free.

4. That the Grand Secretary send to THE JouRNAL subscribers, whose subscriptions are paid to June, I9I4, a copy of the directory free; that he send to each chapter a directory for each member reported active on May Ist, and five additional copies, free; that all other copies be charged for at the rate of 75 cents each.

CONCLUSION.

Finally, I wish to bear witness of the consideration and kindness that has been extended to me by the members of the Fraternity. It has been a source of much pleasure to work in the Grand Council with such men as Shepardson, Frazer and Fay. I regret that our Grand President cannot be present at this Conclave. He has done his part well and the Fraternity owes much to his zeal and efforts in her behalf. Brother Frazer has relieved this office of some of its burdens and has been a source of help that has been much appreciated by me. Brother Fay has been active in behalf of the Fraternity and has done his full part.

There are other men who have done their part: Jenkins, of Teth; Dickson, of Aleph-Gimel; Hobson and Neumann, of Lamedth; Hill, of Gimel; Blogg, of Yodh, and a score of others who deserve mention. These men need no commendation from me. The consciousness of having done their duty is an adequate reward.

I have tried to keep step with this band of faithful men. Not all things have been accomplished that have been undertaken, but we hope that the work has been advanced. We trust as the future decades come and go that the Conclaves then assembled may look back to our work of this the first decade and feel that we have done our duty in the spirit of the founders.

Respectfully submitted,

. HARRY E. KILMER, Grand Secretary.

It was moved by Harvard, seconded by Kansas, that the reports as read be accepted. Motion carried.

Acting Grand President Frazer announced that the report of the Grand Treasurer would be passed until the Wednesday morning session; that the Grand Council would report tonight.

Motion was made by the delegate from Penn State, seconded by the delegate from the University of Pennsylvania, to revise the minutes of the last Conclave. Acting Grand President Frazer appointed the following committee: McCoy, Michigan, chairman; Jenkins, Harvard; Newman, Wisconsin; and Grand Secretary Kilmer, with the instructions that they present to the final session of this Conclave a brief of the minutes that should be a matter of record as to the 1913 Conclave.

Acting Grand President Frazer appointed the following delegates on committees :

Committee on Constitution and By-Laws: Syracuse, Chairman, Nebraska, California, Yale.

This committee will report a complete codification of the laws for presentation to the chapters during the next' school year .

Committee on Audit and Finance: Ohio State, Chairman, Harvard, Purdue.

This committee will present a Budg-et for the next year. a duty which was formerly done by the Grand Council.

Committee on Chapter Housing: Michigan, Chairman, Minnesota, Cornel l.

Committee on Alumni Chapters : Chicago, Chairman, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Washington .

This committee is requested to present a definite plan as to what we are to do with these organizations.

Committee on THE JOURNAL: Stanford, Chairman, Ames, Harvard.

Acting Grand President Frazer requested Brother A. A. Jenkins, of the Harverd Chapter, to attend the meetings of the committee.

Committee on Fraternity Insignia: VI; isconsin, Chairman, Penn . State, Manhattan.

Acting Grand President Frazer reque sted B rother Newman, of the Wisconsin Chapter, and Grand Trea s urer Fay to attend the meetings of this committee.

Committee on Masonic Relations: Iowa University, Chairman, Nebraska, Kansas .

Acting Grand President Frazer reque sted Brother McCoy, of Mich igan , and Grand Treasurer Fay to attend the meetings of thi s committee.

Committee on Song Book: Yale, Chairman, Ohio State, Chicago .

Acting Grand President Frazer requested Brother Treleven , of Wisconsin, to attend the meetings of this committee .

Committee on Re solutions: Illinois, Chairman, Columbia , Colorado .

Committee on Place and Financing of next Conclave : Missouri, Chairman, Columbia, Wisconsin.

Acting Grand President Frazer requested any member of the Chicago Alumni Chapter who was present, to attend the meetings of this committee.

Committee on Auditing of Expenses of Delegates: Grand Secretary, ex officio, Chairman, Columbia, Missouri.

Motion was made by the delegate from California, seconded by the delegate from Michigan, that the committees meet from one o'clock to two o'clock this afternoon. Motion carried.

Delegate from California read a communication from the Alumni Association of Southern California. Motion was made by the delegate from Michigan, and seconded by the delegate from Pennsylvania, that this communication be referred to the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws . Motion carried .

Communications from the Acacia Alumni Association of Southern California, and from the Acacia Alumni Association of the Northern District of California, extending an invitation for the next Conclave to be held in California, were referred to the Committee on the next Conclave. A letter from Mr. Charles Moore, President of the California Exposition, was also referred to this committee.

Grand Secretary Kilmer read a letter from Brother E. D. Flynn, who was a delegate to . last year's Conclave from California. A telegram from Brother Topham, of Beth, was also read.

Acting Grand President Frazer then read Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the ByLaws, and requested the delegates to file their bills for traveling expenses with the delegate from Columbia.

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Copies of the official coat-of-arms, as adopted by the Grand Council, were handed to the delegates by Acting Grand President Frazer.

Delegate from Penn. State moved, seconded by delegate from Columbia, that a session of the Conclave be held Thursday morning at 9 ·o'clock. Motion carried.

Delegate from Stanford moved, seconded by delegate from Ohio State, that the Conclave adjourn, to meet at half-past seven o'clock this evening. Motion carried. Conclave adjourned at noon.

WEDNESDAY EVENING SESSION.

At 7.50 p. m. the Conclave was called to order by Acting Grand President George E. Frazer. Grand Secretary Kilmer called the roll, which showed delegates from all chapters present except the following: Minnesota, Ames, Colorado, Syracuse.

The Acting Grand President brought before the Conclave the Questionnaire, which had been sent to each of the chapters. Answers had been received from all the chapters but Yale and Columbia. The Acting Grand President spoke at length on the summary which had been prepared by the Grand Council, showing data regarding the standing of the different chapters. He also presented data concerning the use of the ritual and the accounting system. ·

The reports from delegates were then called for. Each delegate was allowed not more than five minutes for the presentation of his report.

MICHIGAN.

. NEw MEN-We have an organization on the campus known as Craftsmen, originally founded as a Masonic Club. The old Masonic Club became the Acacia Fraternity. We are always interested in this club, and urge our members to take an active part in it. Our men hold offices in this organization. At the beginning of the year we distribute on the campus, and in very advantageous places, such as the drug stores, university office, etc ., a number of hand register books in which Masons put their names, lodge, home address, and local address, etc. The boys are circulating around all the while and follow prospective candidates up during the rushing season. We have a good line on the men in this way. The Craftsmen Club gives a big smoker about the second week in the school year, which enables the boys to get acquainted. We have an opportunity, in this way, of looking over the new men for available material, and then invite them to the house. Of course we have our alumni who put us in the way of becoming acquainted with new men. We often hear of a good man in this way; we then invite him down to the house and make him feel that he would make a good Acacia man.

OwNERSHIP OF Hous&-We have a house owned by the Alumni Association. There is a first mortgage on this house, held by the German American Savings Bank of Ann Arbor. We have a combined note signed by fifteen of the Alumni members of the Fraternity, binding each to not over five hundred dollars. We have another property just provided for back of us. That will put our Fraternity on a level with the best one in town. This property is held ,by the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, mortgage of twenty-five hundred dollars; there is another mortgage of twelve hundred dollars on the property, held by a man in town. We take care of the rentals, guaranteeing six per cent. interest, and pay taxes, etc. We have the perpetual option to buy at thirty. seven hundred dollars at any time.

Member: What is the amount of the mortgage?

Mich: Twenty-four thousand dollars. There is also a collateral note, second endorsers, of seventy-five hundred dollars. The other piece of property we have an

option of buying for thirty-seven hundred dollars-worth five or s1x thousand do llars.

FINANCIAL CoNDITION-We have the best credit of any fraternity in A nn Arbor. The merchants in town are at the present time soliciting our trade .

Acting G. P.: No obligations to carry forward into next year?

Mich.: No.

Acting G. P.: What is your scholarship average this year?

Mich.: We were third out of the fraternities last year. The list is not made out for this year.

Member: In regard to the ownership of the house. Does the chapter own it?

Mich.: No. It is owned by a separate organization, called the Alumni Association of Aleph Chapter.

LELAND STANFORD.

NEw MEN-There is but one registration place at Stanford. As four-fifths of the students live on the campus, it is possible for a man to become acquainted with all the students without any trouble. We station men at the registration office, and in this way get a line on the men entering school for the first time.

FINANCIAL CoNDITION-We have no debts; there is no capital; we own the furniture. We have made plans for a house, but they have not materialized.

Acting G. P.: Before you came to the Conclave did you go over the reports?

Stanford: Why, not very thoroughly.

Acting G. P.: You have not started a house proposition?

Stanford: No, we have not. We have an Alumni Fund, but this is not a fund to build a new house. Each graduating member signs a note for one hundred dollars, to be paid in small amounts. This money may be used for furnishing the present house.

Acting G. P.: Do you stand for the system of inviting representatives from other fraternities to attend your parties?

Stanford: We invite representatives from other fraternities to our parties. Wisconsin: We have this system at Wisconsin. California: We also have the same system.

Acting G. P.: Just what is the Stanford system?

Stanford: It is to invite representatives from every sorority and fraternity on the campus to every dance we give.

Member: Do you have any gatherings to which just Acacia men get together? Stanford: We have an annual Masonic smoker, but nothing exclusively for the chapter. You could not do this at Stanford. All fraternities follow our system.

KANSAS.

The past year has been a successful one for our chapter both as regards membership and financially. The method we use for finding new men is the same as that used at Stanford. We mingle among the men, and also have smokers. Two smokers are given in the Temple, besides many early in the year at the house. General invitations are printed in the university paper The first smoker is not held as a smoker of the fraternity, but as a Masonic smoker. The lodge gives us the use of their Temple, and we have a smoker there, inviting all brother Masons to attend. FINANCEs-Balance of about fifty dollars. We have a little less than this amount due from men initiated - within the last few weeks of the school year. We are carrying them over to the fall.

Acting G. P.: Do you have any trouble in collecting board money?

Kansas : Not in the active chapter.

Acting G. P.: How are you financing the house?

Kansas: We have notes out. The alumni signed notes of fifty dollars each, payable in five years.

Acting G. P.: Do you have any trouble in collecting notes from the alumni?

Kansas: Notes not paid so far, generally; willing to pay at any time chapter has bought property, either house or lot.

Member: I don't from your remarks just what the chapter owns. Does it own a house?

Kansas : The only property owned is the furniture.

Acting G. P.: The chapte r has not bought a house. It is at present co ll ecting a fund to buy one

Member: How do these notes read?

Kansas: House Fund. About five hundred dollars in the fund at the present t im e in the form of a c ity bond bearing int e r es t.

Acting G. P.: Your interfraternity relations?

Kansas: We a r e on friendly terms w ith a ll the fraternities on the hill. vVe are in the Pan-Hellenic Council thi s yea r.

Acting G. P.: Any trouble about getting in?

Kansas : vVe petitioned la st year, but no act io n was taken upon thi s petition. This year we were given formal notice that our petition was accepted.

Acting G. P.: Have you had a ny Masonic meetings this year in which you have had l ectures o n topics o f Masonry?

Kansas: No. We had two Masonic dances thi s a nd put on an initiation at the Temple.

NEBRASKA.

We have the blu e book system of cred it s. I looked up the credits of the social socie ti es and found that ours was the best of any social organization in the unive r sity. ' We h ave a debt to the Grand Council of abo ut one hundr ed and twenty-five dollars.

ScHOLARSHIP-Out of seve nt ee n semesters, in fourteen, we stood first. We ran higher than ever in the first semester this yea r , and in the second o ne we have probab ly gone higher than the first.

We h ave had financial h elp from our a lumni One of our alumni member s, Robert I. Elliott, Deputy State Sup er intendent o f Public Instructi on in our state, · r aised six hundred dollars and bought furniture for the h ouse.

We a r e not members of the Pan-H ell en ic Council, and don't want to be. vVe keep int e r est up in our alumni through o ur chapter publication, Th e A sp. We a ls o keep in touch with th e five masters of the lodges in Lincoln , and with th e facult y, and in this way come in contact with new men. The Grand Lod ge has been very kind t o us. Th ey have m en tioned us in th eir report , and have introduced a res o luti on in the Grand L odge this year for an a ppropriation of twenty -fiv e thousand dollars t owa rd a n ew h o me

.we think there should be a national system of accounting, but the present system is intricate.

Member : Do you own your own house?

Nebraska: No. We pay a rental of eighty-five dollars a month, on a three- yea r contract. The house is held at t en thousand dollars, and we have an option of buying at this price , minus the rent , at the expiration of the three-year contract

Member: How are your relations with the other fraternities?

Nebraska: Best in the world. We would have no trouble in getting our petition through if we applied-but we don't want to go into the Pan-Hellenic Council.

OHIO STATE.

Our method of finding new men is about the same as that in the other chapters. We look for them on registration day and at two smokers which we give. During the first month we have a smoker to which we invite Masons. Our house finance s are taken care of by an Alumni Association, which is incorporated for fifty thousand dollars.

FINANCIAL CoNDITION-This is above board. There is a charge of two dollar s and fifty cents against us in the National Treasury at the present time for the accounting system . We should like to see this system thrashed out, as it did not appear to us down there that it was as good as our system.

HousE PROPOSITION : The Alumni Association has purchased a house.

Member: Is it not true that the Alumni Association owns a house which they rent to another organization?

Ohio State: Yes. They are trying to help us, to get us in a financial position to own the house some day. They are making money for us They had an opportunity to rent the house for three years, and we advised them to do so.

Acting G. P. : Do they own the house complete?

Ohio State: No. There is a mortgage on it. Our relations with them are very good.

Member: You take in members of other fraternities?

Ohio State: Yes.

Member: Afte r you take in a man, I understand that you do not insist upon him li v in g in th e house. Is this so?

Ohio State: If he has good reasons he is excused Act in g G. P . : Do you use the R itu al in opening and closing the meetin g?

Oh io State: We use the short form. 'vVe do not go through th e formal arrangem ent of ope nin g the B ibl e, on account of lack of space.

HARVARD.

Our m et h od of b ecoming acquainted with Masons is through the Masonic Club. We h ave, as a rule, two or three officers i n that club each year. We attend their meetin gs an d h ave access to their books. At the beginning of each year we put out bo ok lets in th e graduate schoo ls, ask in g Masons to sign them. Th ey are used by the Masonic Club as we ll as by Acacia. We inv ite the men to smokers and to other functi ons A n ot h er method we use in gett in g acq u a int ed wit h new men is through a se ri es of l ect ur es which is given by Professor Pound each year at the chapter h o u se We l ook th e men over very quietly in this way We a lso have members of various lo d ges, Masters, a nd othe r high Masons give us the names of good men.

FINANCEs-In ve r y favorable cond iti on. There is outstanding a note for two hundred and e ig hty dollars l eft o n the h o u se. At th e tim e the Acacia Trust bought the property, th e act ive chapter ass um ed a note for s ix hundr ed do ll ars, back rent. This has g radu all y been p a id back a nd next yea r will see it cleared up. There are no outstanding bills a r oun d town. Our credit is perfect. There i s no trouble as to finances in th e chapter.

The h o u se is ow n ed by the Acac ia Trust , an organ iz a ti o n of alumni members. Each m e mb e r of the chapter who s ub scr ib es o n e hundr ed dollars becomes a s h areholder. The pr ope rty is mortgaged for nine thous a nd dollars, with one thousand doll a rs paid There is si x hundred dollars in th e trea s ury , an d abo ut fifty-five pledges outstanding of one hundred dollar s each, o n which something ha s been paid. The house proposition is working out very favorably.

Member: What is your property worth?

Harvard: About twelve thousand doll a rs.

AccouNTING SYSTEM-We have adopted this system. Our Treasurer, who has had a great deal of experience in auditing, says the system impresses him as being complex. He had, however , no difficulty in changing over from the system he previously us e d. He has no suggestions to make, as he has n o t had sufficient experience with it to criticise it int elligently. He thinks, however, th a t it will work out all ri gh t in the end.

ILLINOIS .

We were recently admitted to the loc a l Pan-Hellenic Council. We use every method we can think of to get hold of n ew men Our fa c ulty memb e rs rec o mm end new men whom they meet in their classes. Our members also look out f or n ew men on the campus. We got the university to print slips as king new m en to put on slips the names of the organizations to which they belong. But the men do not seem to use these slips very much We have smokers, the same as delega tes from other chapters have already described.

We use the Ritual in opening and closing. We have adopted the n ew accounting system. Our men think it is a very simple system, and that it is as simple as could be, to give the information that is required. Our scholarship standing is abo ut the average of fraternities in Illinois.

FINANCIAL CoNDITION-We ought to break about even. A few of th e boys are to send in their money in a week or two, which will take care of a few small bills outstanding. There are none of thirty day s'' length outstanding, except a bill to the National Fraternity. -

HousE PROPOSITION-We began construction of our new hou se o n the first of December, and will be ready for occupancy the first of this September. The whole proposition is worth twenty-six thousand dollars ; lot si x thous a nd dollars, which is clear. The property is mortgaged for twenty thousand dollars and has a second mortgage for six thousand dollars. We will require three thousand dollars a year to keep the corporation going. Every man who becomes a member of the Acacia Fra-

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ternity becomes a member of the corpor a tion. The initi a tion fee is not twenty-five dollars, but o ne hundred and twenty-five dollars. We tell this to a man when he becom es a member. He can pay at once, or sign ten notes.

Member: What is the penalty for failure to sig n one of these hundred dollar notes ?

Illinois: It would cause a man great trouble if he did n ot sign.

Member: How long have you used the note system?

Illinoi s: For about three .years .

Member : Do yo u ow n the lot?

Iilin o is : Yes

Member: What was the cost of the lot?

Illin o is : Six thou sand dollars. Our property will be worth thirt y -five thousand dollars when completed, furniture and all.

Member: What int erest?

Illinois : Seven per cent. About twenty-two hundred and forty dollars a year for buildin g and l ot. That will take about twelve or fifteen years to m a ture.

PENNSYLVANIA.

NEW M EN-This is a difficult proposition. We can't get in touch with the lodges of Philadelphia. · The Pennsylvania conditions are different from almost any other state in the union. The only system we have is similar to that at Harvard, of our alumni members and faculty members recommending men, and by our spotting a m an on the campus In many cases men do not wear a pin; a great many men come for work in the graduate schools for one of the professions; in many cases they are Greeks, which blocks our proposition. At one time there was a Masonic Oub at Pennsylvania, but this went out of ex istence several years ago. There is a move on foot at the present time to start a new Masonic Club. .

HousE PROPOSITION'-There is an incorporated club, called the Acacia Club of Philadelphia. Each man upon initiation is required to sign a note for one hundred and ten dollars, payable in eleven payments of ten dollars each, or he may make it one hundred dollars by making a twenty-five dollar first payment one year after severing his active membership . The note is held by the Acacia Club and collected by their Treasurer . The funds in hand now amount to about six hundred dollars; in pledges, of about three thousand dollars. After securing at least five thousand dollars, either in money or in pledges, and after having our plans looked up, we hope to have something definite before another year is up.

Acting G. P.: Why are some of the men living outside of the house? Pennsylvania : In several cases they are connected with the dormitories, as proctors.

Acting G. P.: What is the condition of your chapter. finances?

Pennsylvania: The total amount received to June rs was ninteen hundred and fifty-five dollars and forty-one cents; expenditures were seventeen hundred and eighty dollars and seven cents, leaving cash on hand to the amount of one hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty-four cents. The heavy expenditure was caused by paying several old debts bequeathed to us by the chapter of several years ago.

Acting G. P.: Are you all out of debt now?

Pennsylvania: Except to the Grand Council of about one hundred and thirty-two dollars, and a note to this Acacia Club for two hundred and seven dollars, payable ten dollars a month and interest.

Acting G. P.: Another year will see you all cleared up?

Pennsylvania: We hope so. We have three men pledged for work in the fall.

Member: What is the amount of the initiation fee?

Pennsylvania: Twenty-five dollars, and twenty dollars dues.

Acting G. P.: What do the Masons of Philadelphia think of Acacia?

Pennsylvania: I don't know.

Acting G. P.-What of the University Lodge?

Pennsylvania: The University Lodge is one of the most exclusive lodges in the City of Philadelphia.

Member: Do the Masons of Pennsylvania put the Acacia Fraternity on the black list?

Pennsylvania: I don't know.

Member: What is your connection with the Interfraternity Conference?

Pennsylvania: Vole feel the same way about this as does Nebraska. We d on't care to belong to it. They have tried to wo rk severa l propositions which make it difficult for any but three or four of the large fraternities to h a ve any say in the matter. They wa nt the fratern iti es to buy their supplies through a committee co mposed of five fraternity members. If a fraternity s igns this agreement, it is very ha rd to withdraw.

MINNESOTA.

Ne ith er delegate nor alternate was present at this sessiOn to r ender a report.

WISCONSIN.

We are members of the Interfraternity Council and take part in the baseball league and the bowling league. We gave parties across the lake and also downtown, and went in with three other fraternities in building a pier. We in vite members of other fraternities to our parties.

Our house is owned by the Acac ia House Assoc iat ion, made up of the memb e rs of Acacia Alumni, each member holding at lea s t one share of stock, par value twenty-fi ve dollars. At the present time th e Hou se Association is controlled by the members in the hou se Three of the directors are fr om the hou se during the coming year. Heretofore all four members have been from the house. Bu t we thought we could get in ' better touch with th e older men and ge t them to take more than one share of stock if we had an older alumni member in the city in touch with the men in the house

. Since entering the Interfr a ternity Le ague we have stood first in scho lar ship. Last semester we we re firs t.

Acting G. P. : How much of a burden is the house?

Wisconsin: We pay one hundred and t wen ty-five dollars a month to the House Association. We plan to pay off one th ousand dollars. The original co st of the house was twelve thousand dollars. In the Students' Fund at the present time we have over three hundred and sixty dollars in cash in the bank, and some funds which the men ar e to pay in this summer. We run a table in the house during the summer school session

NEW MEN-We advertise that Acacia is giving a smoker, as this is a form of rushing which is allowed. In this way we get a line on the new Masons in the uni ve rsity

MISSOURI.

Two years a g o Acacia was extended an invitation to join the Pan-Hellenic Council. This in vi tation we refused, as co ndit io ns did not warrant it. This yea r we sent in a petition, but it was rejected, owing to ignorance on the part of the Greek le tter fraternities as to the conditions which govern the Acacia Fraternity.

Ho usE PLANs-Each man initiated signs five ten-d o llar notes , payable at any time, but not later th<\n five years after he is initiated. And then subscriptions are given by our faculty and alumni members who were in the Fraternity before the time of the present notes. There is a bill before the court, introduced by one of our legal advisors, to have the present corp ora tion's powers enlarged, so that it may hold property and sell bonds not to exceed fifty thousand dollars.

FINANCEs-Everything is paid up locall y . We have one hundred and fifty-five dollars in cash. Five hundred dollars will be due in notes September rst. We have many notes signed, but not yet due.

ScHOLARSHIP.-Acacia ranked first until last semester, when we fell to third place. This semester we took our first place again.

CORNELL.

There is a Cornell Masonic Club, an officer of which is a member of Acacia. This club includes all the Masons in the university, about one hundred and twentyfive in number. We meet the new men at this club, and we also look out for new men wherever we happen to be on the campus.

HousE-We own the house. The property is valued at twelve thousand dollars, and is held in the name of the Acacia Corporation, composed of any member who has been a member of the Cornell Chapter of the Acacia Fraternity. The officers are composed of alumni members located in town. The active chapter pays one

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hun d r ed do ll ars a m o nth rent. We h ave a hundred dollar pledge, a nd thirteen of ou r e ightee n members thi s year s igne d thi s pledge .

FINANCIAL CoNDITION-We ha ve a fund of about o n e hundr ed an d s ix ty doll ars . In o r de r to h ave a ba l ance on the right side, we ha ve deprived o ur se l ves of soc ia l functio ns .

I NTERFRATERNITY CoNFERENCE-We don't ca re to en t e r this, as it wou ld do u s n o good. Freshmen cannot be pledged until after a ce rtain date . We want to ge t our men ea rl y.

AccoUNTING SYSTEM-·We h a d tr o ubl e in adopting thi s system, but h ave carri ed it o ut t o the l e tter.

Member: Did you li ke th e account in g system?

Co rn ell : Yes, and no. It is very comp li cated, ve r y detailed. Many things seem unnecessary. A lth o u gh it helps th e G r and Council in c heckin g up the differ e nt chapters, we think it is too comp li ca t ed for a busy student t o run.

P1,JRDUE.

METHOD OF GETTING AcQUAINTEJ}-The r eg is tr a ti on 1s made m one building. We have a man wo rkin g in thi s office a nd get in t ouch with new men in thi s way. We a lso give a smoke r at the Acac ia h ouse, which is a tt ended by practically all the Masons in the sc h oo l. There is a moveme nt on foot, whereby · th e E lks, Odd Fe ll ows a nd Masons are t o loo k up th e lodge a ffiliation s o f all th e new men entering the school, and in this way we expect t o ge t in touch with th e men earlier than at the pr ese nt time.

NEw HousE- T we nt y-five th o usand dollars for the property , lot an d h o use. We go t a donation fr om the ac ti ve chapter and from Ma so ns in th e city; and th ese sums, t oge th e r with th e m o n ey pl ed ged, we used to induce the m a n we were to buy th e pr ope rt y fr o m t o t a ke up the pr o p os iti o n and build th e house. He holds the d eb t. In I9I7 we will be able to t a ke over the debt.

S c HOL ARSHI P-W e were first among the genera l frat e rnities. Four or five honorary fraternities were a he a d of us.

AccouNTING SYSTEM-We have had m a ny compl a ints from our steward about ado pting this system. He does not think he ca n spend the necessary time next year to go into the details.

INTER FRAT ERN ITY CouNCIL-We are not members of this Council. Our application was rejected, due to the prejudice of one fraternity. We feel sure we can get in next year if we so desire.

CALIFORNIA.

We take part in all the Interfraternity affairs on the campus. We use the same methods pursued by the other chapters in becoming acquainted with Masons in the university; give smokers to the new men; help in entertaining them, and keep men on the job in the registration office.

NEW HousE-We have made a good start in building up our fund, having about sixty-three hundred dollars pledged at the present time. We follow the system of having each of our men sign a pledge for one hundred dollars, in payments of ten dollars annually. We already have over a thousand dollars paid in. Our alumni is interested in this plan. We think we have found an angel to finance our proposition.

Acting G. P. : Is this angel a member of Acacia? California: I think not. He is a building contractor, and is a friend of one of our members.

FINANCEs-Our financial condition is good. Our revenue amounts to twentyone hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents. The bills on hand amount to one hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty-three cents.

ScHOLARSHIP-We stood thirteenth in a list of forty-three social societies.

RITUAL-We use the Ritual. We do not use the gowns in initiation. We have meetings every Monday night.

. SociALs-We have picnics, hikes, and other forms of social gatherings. There IS close harmony between Stanford and California Chapters of Acacia. During the year we have lectures on Masonic matters. The San Francisco Alumni Association pays us occasional visits.

AccoUNTING SYSTEM-We don't li ke this system; it is too complex. We need pledge pins and u se them in California.

There is a University Lodge composed of Masons in the un iversity; some of them a r e Greeks and some are Ba rb s.

A m a n from Co lora do ha s sent to us the name of his son and has a ked us to look a fter him T h e so n is not a Mason. What s h ou ld be done in this ca e?

Act in g G. P .: This is a ve r y grow in g co nd iti on. I am of the op inion that we s hould stand aga inst th e pledging of men who are not Masons.

CHICAGO.

There is a Mas o nic Club in the University. Th e members of Acacia do not try to become office rs. This club is act ive in s um mer as we ll as in winter. By atte n d in g the se m eet ings we ge t a li ne on th e new men in the university.

Dr . Gould has given us great ass istance this year, by g i ving a ser ies of lectures on Mas o nic hi story.

We put on a degree in one of the downtown l odges.

HousE- 'vVe do n ot ow n a h ouse . We have on l y li ved 111 a house a little over a year.

have so m e d eb t s, o ne of them being t o the at iona l Fratern ity. We h ave adopted a constructive po li cy, whereby no i nit ia ti o n fee can be app li ed to anything except t o thi s debt, or t o the furniture debt. In the course of about two ye ars we can w i pe o ut both debts. We r a ised the rent from twenty-five to thirty do ll a r s per quarter, wh ic h g ives u s abo ut two hundr ed dollars more to pay toward these d eb t s. W e have a hou se fund co mmitt ee r ecent ly appo in ted, wh ic h h as n ot as yet adopted any p a rticular pla n. Th e h o us e we are now u s in g is worth nine o r ten thousand doll a r s. Ther e is a dispute among o ur m e mber s as t o whether o r not we shou ld buy this house. We have no local debts , other than the o n e for furn iture. The s t ewa rd is a littl e ahead There is no difficulty in co ll ecting from th e men, except in one or tw o cases, and th ese are of men who h ave be en ou t two or thre e years.

INTERFRATERNITY CouNCIL-W e do n ot b elong to this Council, as it wou ld do us no good Most of our men ar e post-graduate We have n o t initi ated a Fre shman , and I don't believe we h ave ever initiat ed a S op h omo r e. But we do n o t, h owever, cate r to g raduates.

YALE

ME THOD OF GETTING M EN-Th e re is a Yale Masonic Club, largely supported by A cacia. It has not a s much support as formerly , with the result th a t the Club as a club has deterior a ted a nd is not of much force. There is friction between th e Acacia members a nd the other Masons, so the Acacia members ha ve not taken an active part in the Masonic Club. Each year we give two or three smokers in the hous e Notice of these smokers is g ive n in the Yale News. All Masons in the Unive rsity are invited to these smokers

FINANCIAL CoNDITION-We have one debt , a note for one hundred dollars taken by one of our a lumni members. We have one hundred and fifty dollars due from members. With all debts in we shall be to the good. We are now in a position to go through the summer and start the coming year free of all debts. We have only been in our house for two years. Our men sign notes for fifty dollars, payable in five yearly payments. These notes are, however, optional. There has been little attempt made to force them on anybody.

ScHoLARSHIP-Out of our list of twenty , there were only three undergraduates this year . The grjlduate students rank high. In proportion to our membership, we have more members of honorary fraternities than any other fraternity in Yale. Most of our men are either instructors in the college, or in Sheffield, or are graduate students

COLUMBIA.

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RusHING-Same system as already outlined-smokers and each man on the lookout for new men; then a small dinner, the men inviting around the most promising of the new Masons. Sometimes a second smoker is necessary. We also have several special meetings at the beginning of the year to hurry things up.

HousE PROPOSITION-Real estate is so high that the ownership of a house is out of the question. But we have not given up all hope of owning one. We have re-

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cently received a donation of thousand dollars. The only available lot, is not very desirable, would cost sixteen thousand dollars. done nothmg February toward building a house. We hope to add to this httle house fund which we have started. We expect to take up the building proposition next year. Meanwhile we take advantage of dormitories, of which there are three excellent ones at

We keep our men on one floor in one of these dormitories. Our meetings are held in Earl Hall on the campus, which is given over to social functions. We use full regalia at our meetings.

Our men are nearly all graduate students, and stay but a short time, one or two years at most. This year we have succeeded in getting three or four men just beginning in law, and these, we hope, will be with us for three years.

FINANCEs-Good. There is about seventy dollars outstanding. Of the new men, practically all the debts are paid. We owe the Grand Chapter nothing at the present time.

AccoUNTING SYSTEM-We have installed the new accounting system. Since we do not need to take account of the board and room proposition, you will readily see that it is a different proposition with us. We have had no complaint from our Treasurer on this system.

Acting G. P.: Do I understand you to say that you have started a House Fund?

Columbia: Yes. Brother Lawrence gave us one thousand dollars to start a House Fund.

AMES.

As neither delegate nor alternate was present at this meeting, no report from this chapter was read.

IOWA.

NEw MEN-A Masonic Oub was organized this year Meetings are held about three times a year. The Club also gives smokers. The Club has not yet been thoroughly tried out. An Acacia man is President. The Registrar of the university is an Acacia man. He keeps us posted.

HousE-We do not own a house. An Alumni Association was formed this year. Each member signs five notes for whatever amount he wishes, averaging ten dollars each. This association took over our furniture, which was not aU paid for, and also the notes which they are paying.

FINANCEs-Our financial situation is good. We began the year with an indebtedness something like two hundred dollars from last year, which is entirely wiped out. We have a few men who are a little delinquent.

INTERFRATERNITY CouNCIL-We are not members, and have not petitioned to become members. It is an open question with us.

Acting G. P.: Did you take pains to find out how you stood financially?

Iowa: I took pains to find out that we would be able to meet all our obligations if the members who owed us money should pay up.

Acting G. P.: Have you looked over the chapter accounts this year?

Iowa: I have.

Acting G. P.: How does the uniform accounting system go?

Iowa: Our steward is a man who has taken active part in finances and is interested in banking and accounting in general, and has taken great interest in the work. He was not absolutely satisfied with the new system; he thought it complicated; he had trouble in transferring accounts which we had. I think at present he is pretty well straightened out.

Member : Your scholarship standing?

Iowa : I do not know about this. There is no way of finding out. The Registrar is an Acacia man, and is much interested in having us compare scholarship with the other organizations in the unfversity, and he has asked us to form or try to get into the Interfraternity Council. His is to have a council composed of all of the organizations in the university, not only Greek letter fraternities, but organizations of every kind, and in this way determine the scholarship, and have meetings and discuss university matters.

Member: Have you had any men put out of school on account of low scholarship?

Iowa : Yes, one man. He was a good man, but was out of school for some years.

P E. S Y LVAN I A ST A T E.

We h av e no definite method of ge ttin g a cq uaint ed wi th M aso ns in co ll ege . We do not own our h o u se, and h ave no f und acc umul ate d t owa r d pur ch a si n g one. But we have an in co rp o r a t e d o r g ani za ti on to ge t a m o r e or les s d efin i te system working for the a cc u m ul a ti o n o f a H o us e F und . W e h ave pl edges f r om practically a:ll of the men w h o hav e g r a du a t ed . Thes e pl ed ges a re n ot comp ul sory , but most of the men si g n them . Th ey a re f o r o ne hundred dollar s, p ayab l e with in ten y ea rs; they are not , h o w eve r , b e ing paid up promptly. Some ha v e paid w ithin the ten years. The rest we feel sure will p a y up at any time we decide to b eg in building.

FIN ANCEs-No local d ebts . There is about thirty dollars left in the Tr easu r y after pa y ing up all the bill s around home. We owe the Grand Fraterni ty abo u t one hundred and se v ent een dollars

We use the Ritual in opening and closing our meetin gs. We do not u se t h e gowns as prescribed in the initiati o n, but we do use r eg ular gowns w ith ribbons on them.

We have adopted the uniform accounting system. One of our m e n had se v eral years banking experienc e before entering college, and he h a s shouldered m o st of the responsibility in tran s ferring the accounts . The new system, as far as I know , has been satisfactory to him.

In our college we ha v e one Catholic fraternity and t w o Jewish fraternities. When the Pan - Hellenic Council was formed two years a g o , there was a g r ea t question as to what to do a bout these three fraternities. They did not w a nt to legislate against them dir ec tl y The way they got around this was to make m embership in the Pan-Hellenic Council based on a general n a tional social stand a rd. A Jewish fraternity is n o t g ener al , because it is limited to Jews; Acacia is not a general social fraternity , because it is limit ed to Masons , a nd so we are kept o ut o f the Pan-Hellenic Council. We hav e n ever petitioned for membership.

WASHINGTON STATE.

The method of becoming acquainted with Masons is the same as in other chapters . We are on very friendly terms with all of the Greeks, and ha v e accepted their invitation to become members of the Interfr a t e rnit y Council. Our scholastic standing has always been good ; this ye ar it is probably a little lower than usu a l. We have no arr a ngements for building a house as yet. Th e re is a general movement against fraternities a t Washington, and we want to see how this comes out before we start any building fund. Another mov ement is on foot to move all the frats and sororities on the campus.

FIN ANCEs-We are in a bad way financially. This year we started out with a tot al membership of one. Later on a few men dropped in. We had only two during the first semester. At the end of this year we h a d eight activ e m embers, six of whom have been initiat ed. We are about three hundred dollars in a hole just at present One of our alumni members is paying all of our debts , and we shall owe him. The prospects for next year are good; most of the men will be back.

We take men into the house who are not Masons, but who have declared themselves ready to become M a sons. With one exception they have taken their Masonic de g ree within a few m o nths after entering our house. We have had lots of trouble with the n ew accounting system. We found it very complicated. It will, doubtless, be all right in the end . All but two of our men this year were self-supporting and did not have the time to put into Acacia that they should have had .

Member: Do you pledge these men as soon as you take them into the house?

Wash . State: Yes.

Member: Is this the usual pledging ceremony?

Wash. State: No. It is a little different. These men declare their intention of putting iu petitions to become Masons.

Member: Are they sons of Masons?

Wash. State: Always .

Acting G. P. : I notice that you report the number of Masons in the school in answer to the questionnaire as thirty; is this the truth?

Wash. State: I don't know.

Acting G. P.: Was the number of Masons there last year unusually small?

Wash. State: Yes.

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Acting G. P : You don't feel discouraged at the present time about \"'ashington St ate?

Wash St a te: No.

COLORADO.

Both delegate a nd a lternate being absent at this meeting, no report from this chapter was r ea d. SYRACUSE.

Our scholarship standing is very good. All of our bills are p a id. Our members a r e ge ne rall y active in university activities. Th e first of May we m ove d into our ne:-v house, which is now owned by two memb e rs , and is l ate r to be sold to the Acacta Association.

Acting G. P. : How are your finances?

Syr ac use : Bills are all p a id.

Acting G. P.: How many men back next f all?

Syra cuse : N ine.

Acting G. P.: Eleven a ctiv e men during the year?

Syracuse : Yes.

Acting G. P. : Is this the usual numb e r?

Syracuse: This is the capacity of the house.

Acting G. P. : How many Masons in the school? Sixty are reported.

Syr ac use: I think that is the correct number.

Acting G. P. : How many of these m e n are in the downtown Medical and Dental Coll eges?

Syracuse : Two are in the Law School , and two in the Medical School this year.

Acting G. P. : Do you think you can solve the problem of bringing these downtown men together?

Syracuse : Yes.

Acting G. P . : How many Masons are in these schools?

Syracuse : In the Medical and Law Schools there are about twenty-two or twenty-four Masons.

Acting G. P : How did you get their names?

Syracuse: We have three men interested in the work of the Medical and Law Schools , and had them go over the catalogue The men in the different colleges were given the job of going over the catalogue in their departments. Only the members in the academic department fell down, and this was due to the large number enrolled in this department.

Member: After the first of the year, how do you get men?

Syracuse: By personal scout ing, and by taking advantage of the Masonic Club.

MANHATTAN.

NEw MEN-A new registrat ion plan has been adopted by the co ll ege. We shall have an assistant on hand on registration day to look after the Masons. The Grand Lodge holds its Past Master's work after the school opens All Masons in Manhattan are invited to this ceremony. In this way we get our members We do not belong to the Interfraternity Conference.

FINANCEs-The report was not complete when I left, but I am sure we are not over twenty-five dollars in debt We have no trouble in collecting money A few of the men are behind, owing to the fact that they are working their way through school.

ScHOLARSHIP-We stand third out of six social fraternities .

Acting G. P.: Isn't this pretty low?

Manhattan : It is . This is due partly to the fact that so many of our men are overloading themselves with work in order to get through.

Acting G. P. : How many men are coming back next year?

Manhattan : Fourteen.

Acting G. P.: What is the approximate membership of your chapter for next year?

Manhattan: Eighteen; we can, however, accommodate twenty men.

Member: Does lack of material cause you to take in only four men next year?

Manhattan: Our school year is divided into terms, and we have men going out all the time. At Christmas we shall have three men graduating.

. At the of. Grand Pres ident Frazer, the r epre entat ive from the Ch 1cago Alumm Assoc 1at10n gave a sho rt ta l k. He p r aised the work of the Grand Conclave in g low in g t erms, and expressed his deep appreciation of the good work they had done. He spoke for some time of the work he done as a charter member at Purdue, and expressed his approva l of the way the different members criticised the new account in g sys t em. He a lso mentioned the fact that he intended to vi it about of chapters during the n ext sc h oo l year. About the chapter homes he sa1d m part : weeks ago tomorrow ni g ht I took s upp er at the chapter house at Ames. The Ames boys have purchased th e very fi n est s it e at Ames. The Grand l:odge of state is back of them, and will put up a mighty fine place there. I hk e spmt at Ames, and a l so at Ohio St a t e, which I have vis it ed during my travelmg. At some o f the chapters they are go in g to in st itut e a system somewhat as follows: The ve n e r ab l e dean is t o assig n different s ubj ects to the members o n whic.;h th ey are to t a lk; they. are to l o?k up the t op ics thus assigned, and be re ady t o. g 1ve a l ec tur e o n that sub Ject. At the meetings at wh ich these subjects w11l be d1scussed, there will be not only Acac ia men present, but outside Mas ons, M aso ns from the t ow n. In this way th e downtown Masons w ill r ea li ze that the Acacia men a r e n ot absorbed wholly in th e ir narr ow academic world, but are wide-awake men, whose acquaintance is well wort h cultivating. It is regrettabl e that the men who spe nd all of th ei r tim e and attent io n in makin g high grades in schoo l fall down a lm ost completly when th ey ge t out. It's the fellow that gets through by the sk in of his t eet h that m a k es good."

Acting Grand President: We do not seem to have anything like a uniform method of getting new material. It is regrettable that all of our methods are very vague. In Wisconsin and Illinoi s meth ods are very h aphazard, very vague and very un sa tisfactory as to the spotting of Masons in the school , If you have s uggestions , bring them to the Committee on Resolutions.

As to debts due to the Grand Fraternity, practicall y every chapter that owes any large sum owes it to the National Fraternit y. The delegates did not give , a s a rule, over five minutes to the financial affairs of their chapters. Let the delegate s next year look into this matter very thoroughly and be prepared t o give an intelligent account of their chapter finances . If yo u owe the Grand Fraternity and not the men around town, it would seem to me that you are using your dues to pay these men, and not the Na tional Fraternity as sessments.

UNIFORM AccoUNTING-Brother Shepardson was very much intere sted in this question. He thought it was going to be of the greate st value to ti:e men from an educational point of view. I do not say that the sys tem 1s perfect, but I do say that the college men of this age who react toward this system by saying that it is complicated are going to have a hard row to hoe in the business world . Both Grand President Shepard s on and I insi sted that the system should not be too easy . This system was sent out to the chapter s with letters asking for recommendation s . The chairman of this committee has not received over five letter s, and these contain only vague suggesttons ; they do not contain any good critici s ms. I would suggest that the committee appointed this morning, con sisting of the delegate from Penn. State, chairman , with the delegates from Nebraska and Purdue, get out of the other so me specific criticism of this system . The whole fraternity system is complex, and if it were not it would not be any good. I want you to feel that this uniform accounting system is a big educational device, and we must labor with it . And if you will send to the chairman, Bro . L. E. Knorr, some recommendations for changes in the system, you will gladden the heart of the man who has spent many weeks on this system.

I NT ERFRATERNITY CoNFERENCE-The Questionnaire shows that twelve chapters are members of the Interfraternity Conference and twelve chapters are not. Of the twelve that are not members, three or four are not because there are no Interfraternity Conferences in their schools. That is a pretty good excuse. Three or four chapters are not members because some Greeks are prejudiced; Michigan and Illinois had a hard fight to get in. Some four or five chapters don ' t seem to want to associate themselves with the problems of other college fraternities. If Acacia has any work to do, it has it to do in the college world. I question very much if it can do this work standing aloof and to one side. If you don't belong to an Interfraternity Conference because you don't want to, you are slighting your real duty. If all Acacia has to do is to be a conference for its members, neither you nor I should care to be members.

Acting President Frazer took up the answers received to the Questionnaire and read the statistics as compiled by the Grand Council, but did not comment on the topics. He gave the number of Greek letter men in the different chapters; number of active graduate students, and the number of faculty members.

OwNERSHIP OF HousEs-All but one own or rent houses. Seven chapters report that they own their houses; but this means that they are paying interest on bonds instead of rent. But seven have assumed uwnership obligations out of twenty-four.

NuMBER OF MASONS IN THE ScHOOL-is interesting. These answers must be arbitrary, as they are so uniform. They are probably all guesses except Stanford. Purdue, which can draw on approximately forty Masons, has done more toward the house proposition than Wisconsin, which can draw on two hundred and forty-five Masons .

PLEDGING OF MEN NoT MASONs-Nebraska said yes; also Washington, with some complications. All the others say no . Most initiate men as soon as they pledge them. There seems to be no uniform length of time for keeping men pledged. Pledge pins are generally used, despite the recommendation of the Grand Council to the contrary. Only six chapters do not use pledge pins. The Grand Council did not think that this custom should be carried out further.

AcACIA HISTORY-Most of the chapters want their men well up on Acacia history and Constitution and By-Laws; but six do not require their men to learn this information before initiating them.

REGULAR MEETINGs-Eight of the chapters meet twice a month; sixteen meet every week. Those that meet twice a month do not show up as well as those that meet every week.

AVERAGE ATTENDANCE-From fifty per cent. to ninety-five per cent.

NuMBER OF DANCES A YEAR-From one to eleven (Wisconsin).

NuMBER OF BANQUETs-From one to seven (Iowa).

CoMPARISON OF ScHOLARSHIP WITH OTHER FRATERNITIES-One chapter said twenty points higher than all the other fraternities at their school. Illinois is thirteenth in scholarship. At Manhattan they stand third out of six fraternities. ·

INITIATION FEES-These fees range from thirty dollars at California, to seventeen dollars and fifty ce nts at Kansas, and fifteen dollars at Colorado.

RITUAL-Out of twenty-three chapters reporting, four do not use Ritual in opening and closing the meeting. This is an excellent record.

Penn. State: Ho w many chapt e r s charge alu mni d ue s? Do a lum ni pay dues after they go out?

Acting G. P.: Four chapters , the amount s being t wo doll a r s a yea r at three chapters, and s ix dollars a y ear at the fourth chapt e r .

Out of twenty-four chapter s, fifteen publish chapt e r magazin es. W hy do not the other nine chapt e r s carry out thi s s cheme. But ar e we d oin g so much on this chapter mag a zine scheme that w e are lo sing intere s t in T HE JOURNAL?

CHAPTER MAGAZINES- N ebra ska publi shed a magazine co sting six t y dollars an iss ue. It contains cut s . The alumni p ay for one w h ole is su e a ye ar.

California: One is sue of our paper cost s thirt y d ollar s . Th e m one y comes from the Fraternit y account. The hou se pay s for the maga zine , which is sent to all member s, both active and alumni.

Illinois: We publi shed two issues of our pap e r , Th e Hello. One is sue cost fifty dollars , the oth e r is sue about thirty dollars . One-half of the e xpenses were borne by the acti v e chapter; and the rest b y the Alumni As sociation . There were no picture s in either issue. The alumni are ve ry much interested in it. We endeavor to get something about the alumni in each ,issue. We publish a complete chapter directory every time , and publish matters of general interest about the active chapter and the university.

Harvard : We pa y for our magazine out of the general fund . The first edition cost s about sevent y dollars and the second about forty-five dollar s.

Member: Do these chapters send out circular letters to the alumni?

Acting G P.: The onl y regular letter sent out to the alumni at Illinois is their paper. However, all letters sent to the chapter are always answered . Michigan sends out circular letters from time to time during the year. The delegate from Yale has brought recent copies of the Yale Tr ian gle for the other delegates to take home. This paper is published once a year and costs about twenty-five dollars for the issue.

FouNDER' s D AY BANQUET-There was no celebration at Purdue, as most of the men were away at the time. At both Stanford and California school was closed. Eight chapters showed that they had ten alumni back at their table at least once during the year.

Member: How many chapters include the pin as part of the initiation fee?

Acting G. P.: Three include part of the cost of the pin in the initiation fee.

Members: Does Washington ask non-Masons to become members of the Acacia?

Acting G. P.: Not exactly; but they ask non-Masons to become tenants in their house.

Acting G. P.: Does Washington intend to keep up this practice?

Washington: No. But during the past year it was absolutely necessary.

Pennsylvania: At Pennsylvania the table is run differently from other chapters. Five or six of the alumni are connected with the university. They wish to have their say in handling the steward's work. This has made it difficult to adopt the new accounting system. The university has no regular rating of fraternities. One man in the junior class has worked twenty hours a week outside of his college work as an architect to pay his way through

college. He has obtained an appointment as assistant for next year . Another man was offered a position but refused, in order to go abroad. We use the gown but not the pledge pin. We shall have nine men back next year.

Penn. State: Can you pledge a man if he is an entered apprentice?

Acting G. P.: Yes. The Ritual is very clear on that.

Acting Grand President Frazer then called upon Brother Marshall, one of the founders of Acacia, for a few remarks. Brother Marshall said in part:

" Some ten or eleven years ago, perhaps a little longer, a few of us had a dream, and we dreamed somewhat the thing that is existing tonight. However, we did not expect that it would come to pass in so short a time. We had a dream that perhaps twenty-five or fifty years from then something like this might happen. The reception you have given me tonight has taken me off my feet, and I hardly know what to say. I certainly appreciate it very much and thank you for it. The University of Michigan Masonic Club was organized in 1892, I think. I became a member of this club in 1897 We had our troubles at that time in the club, the same as you have had here tonight. We had our discussions, but they were all good-natured, and we were working for a good purpose . During the year 1902-1903 the University of Michigan Masonic Club became defunct I was out of the school at the time, and did not return until the fall of 1903. The first place I looked for was the University of Michigan Masonic Club, and I found Brother Charles Sink, and also Brother Hill, a man who had been elected to the club before it became defunct. We got together and found the By-Laws and Constitution of the old club, and made up our minds that there was an opportunity; we felt that in a large university there was an opportunity for a Masonic organization. During the summer of 1903 I was in Minnesota and became acquainted with Brother F . A. Wiles, of that state. We talked over the problem of forming a college fraternity. Returning in 1903, we got together and studied the situation. We went over the number ot Masons m the University and found about two hundred . We formulated the plan at that time of forming a fraternity on a purely fraternity basis, national in its scope . We made many mistakes, but it was all experimental on our part. \Ve expected to make mistakes, but by doing things and making mistakes we learned. The result was that during the year 1903-1904 we formed our organization by inviting men whom we thought would make good Masons. We framed our Constitution and By-Laws, wrote the Ritual, and were incorporated in May, 1904 . We were not entirely ready for extension at that time, but extension was forced upon us. Within two weeks after incorporation, we had inquiries to the number of thirty, asking how a new chapter of Acacia Fraternity could be obtained. That necessitated our getting busy and rushing things a little faster than we wished . We got out a circular at that time and sent it in answer to these inquiries . In forming our fraternity, we tried to form it on high ideals, and this is the spirit of our Ritual. We tried to form the highest ideals that came into our minds, and to meet the problems that confronted us at that time. I wish to congratulate you men on the high standard of ideals that you have maintained and are still fight1ng for. Acacia stands for more than a mere social club in our colleges; it :stands for higher ethics, better morals. And I believe that the Acacia Fraternity has a mission to perform in our college life, and not only in our col;lege life, but in the world at large . Our country is being confronted by

problems which must be solved, and I believe that solution will come for a large part through the Masonic Fraternities. And it is up to Acacia to be the leader in the Masonic world."

Motion was made by Harvard, seconded by Chicago, that the Conclave adjourn until 9 o'clock Thursday morning . Motion carried. Me eting adjourned at I I p. m.

THURSDAY MORNING SESSION.

At 9.15 a. m. the Conclave was called to order by Acting Grand President Frazer.

The report of delegates was again taken up, as two more delegates had arrived during the night.

AMES

HousE-We expect to build a house next year. We have sold bonds to the amount of six thousand dollars, and expect to sell to the amount of four thousand more. We expect to build a fifteen thousand dollar house at Ames:

Acting G. P . : What interest?

Ames: Six per cent.

Acting G. P.: To whom are you selling these bonds?

Ames: To Masons, members of the Grand Lodge.

Acting G. P.: What effect will this have when Masons want you to take in their sons?

Ames: None whatever. This is understood by the bond buyers.

NEw MEN-We held a Masonic smoker last year for the first time College Masons were invited to this, and also the Masons in town. We also try to come into personal contact with the new men on the campus.

FINANCEs-There are some bills outstanding; but we have more money than the bills that are against us.

COLORADO.

RusHING-The supply of Masons in the University of Colorado is limited . There are twelve hundred students in the school; only a few of them take a six-year course; the last two years of medicine are in Denver. We take a few of these men in their senior year at the university, but this is not at all satisfactory. We give from two to four smokers every year and invite every Mason in the school to the first smoker. After this invitations are sent out. The Registrar is a Mason and a member of Acacia, and through him we get in touch with all the Masons when they register. We put on the third degree in Boulder, and in this way got in touch with the Masons in the town. We pledge only M aso ns, . using the pledge pin to a small extent.

HousE-We rent our house . Two years ago we started the system of notes, each man on leaving signing ten notes to the amount of ten dollars each, payable one each year. We are to take the money first for furniture, and the rest to apply toward the building fund. We pay seventy-five dollars a month rent for the house, which is a big rent.

FINANCES-We have come out about even this year , twenty-five or thirty dollars being now owed by the different members. There are five or six men in the house. The members outside of the house, as a rule, lived at home.

Member: Do you use the pledge pin in some instances and not in others? Colorado: This is governed by the number of pins we have and the number of men we have pledged. Some prefer pins and some do not.

The Acting Grand President called for the report from the Minnesota Chapter, but as both delegate and alternate were still absent, no report from this chapter was read.

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The Acting Grand President then called for the reports of committees, which had been appointed the previous day.

The delegate from Stanford presented the following petition from the alumni of Lower California:

To the Grand Officers and Brothers of Acacia:

The Acacia Alumni Association of Southern California extends to the Fraternity, in Conclave assembled , a fraternal greeting with a wish that the work of the Conclave may be successfully completed and rewarded by the achievement of the best success for the welfare of the Fraternity. We trust that one result of your work will be the selection of California as the place for the Conclave in 1915, and that in this way, we will be given an opportunity of entertaining the members of the Conclave during their visit here.

In connection with this expression of good will and brotherhood, the Alumni Association of Southern California desires to contribute to the work of the Conclave by a suggestion from its members on a question which has for many years occupied the serious thought and attention of our Fraternity. Participating in the suggestion are Acacia Alumni from the Universities of Michigan, Stanford, Nebraska, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Cornell and Colorado. It is to be hoped that this expression by the Alumni Acacians, though not voiced in the terms of a formal resolution, but the result, nevertheless, of careful and serious reflection, will be received by the Conclave and weighed carefully.

Our suggestion is this :

That the Conclave, by proper legislation, adopt Greek letters in place of, and as a substitute for the Hebrew characters which were originally used in the name of the Fraternity; that the name Acacia be retained as heretofore, allowing each chapter the option of using the Greek letter name, or the name Acacia, as local conditions and the best interests of the Fraternity may require.

Our Fraternity is not so old that it can be said to be past the point of constitutional change and adjustment. If there is anything in the framework of the institution which a correction would improve, there is nothing fatal in making the change For an institution of our size and probable duration, we are at the very start of our career. It seems, therefore, that in suggesting the above substitution, we are not striking at a foundation stone of the Fraternity which long years of use have crystallized ·beyond remolding. We believe that the change when made, will result in the removal of a serious obstacle in the path of some of our strongest chapters and pave the way for an immediate and far-reaching uplift in the welfare of the national organization.

Experience has shown that in universities where national fraternities maintain chapter houses and take any part in student activities, there is a natural and inevitable classification of these organizations under the popular name of "Greek Letter Fraternities." This idea has gained universal recognition, both in and out of university life. Other societies though they live in a house, hold secret meetings, wear a distinctive pin and have a grip and password, are regarded as "House Clubs," local in their scope of activities and more or less transitory in their existence. They are not looked upon as representatives of a national institution with a basis of pi'inciples to which a whole brotherhood of university and college men adhere. Typical names of such clubs are the "Dwight Club," "The Dicky," "The Campus," "Bacherlordon," etc. Especially is it true in the universities on the Pacific coast that conditions have created and maintained this distinction between the "Fraternity" and the "House Club." Practically a Chinese wall exists between the two types of institutions, and Acacia, by the mere fact of having a "House Club" name, is in the student mind, thrown on the "House Club" side of the wall. So acutely is this difference between "House Club" and "Fraternity" felt at the University of California and Stanford, for instance, that the representatives of those two universities declare that the very life of our Fraternity, as such, hinges, upon the proper solution of this question. The Alumni Association of Southern California feels that the National Conclave must take favorable action in this matter if Acacia is to maintain its identity as a fraternity and prosper in these and similar universities.

The suggestion here made is a compromise which can in no way injure the Fraternity anywhere, at the same time giving to certain of our chapters a means of meeting

lo ca l conditions which constitute an almost fata l handicap. This change, when 1t IS effected, will e nable these chapters to establ ish this indisputably on the plane of the recogni zed ' fraternities, which is at present denied. This, in turn, must redound to the welfare of th e n ational organi za tion. The Alumni Asso ciation of Southern Californ ia th erefore urges that such action as is within the power of the National Conclave be taken toward the adoptiou of the change herein proposed.

Stanford : The men at Stanford and its alumni are in favor of changing the name of Acacia Fraternity. The only thing we ask is an opportunity to vote on the question. We had considerable trouble in getting recognized as a fraternity. The Acacia F r aternity is something that is unique in organizations, and is different from other fraternities. But we are following the Greek letter attitude by putting Greek letters on our pledge pins and using Greek letters in some of our work. It may be a local condition at Stanford, and if it is Stanford should give it up. But we are having trouble in getting recognized as a fraternity. Even in our own lodge they don't understand that this is a fraternity, but think it is a club. There is an Acacia Club in California, but it has no connection whatever with the Acacia Fraternity. We simply ask a chance to vote on this matter.

Pennsylvania: We feel that some of the men favor Greek letters on the pin; but the majority of our men felt it unwise at this time. There is an inclination that the Fraternity would become known eventually as a Greek letter fraternity , and this our chapter is against.

Illinoi s : The signature of the Illinois man on that petition is of a man w'ho was at Illinois when Acacia was a club , and has not been there for some time . Acacia is a young fraternity. You can ' t expect it to become a great National Fraternity at once. The adoption of Greek letters would not aid us in ceasing to become a club in the public eye and become a fraternity. Clubs all over the country are taking on Greek letter names.

Pennsylvania: In regard to the Acacia Club, I might say that there is such an organization in the City of Philadelphia. It was organized by Masons of that city, but they can call themselves nothing but the Acacia Club Our Alumni Association is incorporated under the name of The Acacia Club of Philadelphia, so ·that the Acacia Club cannot use that name.

Stanford: The Santa Fe Acacia Club is made up of Masons in the town, not of college Masons. We have nine clubs in Stanford named after trees. All publications are named after trees. We are recognized there as a club and not a fraternity, and the boys do not like it.

Acting G. P.: There are local conditions at Stanford that cannot be duplicated anywhere else in this country. Of course, one chapter's conditions cannot affect the whole Fraternity, unless we can devise some scheme by which this chapter can be helped out.

Nebraska: The Nebraska man who signed that report was active in Nebraska six or seven years ago, when the order of things the delegate from Illinois set forth were conditions that existed at Nebraska. Conditions have now changed. The opinion of most of our alumni is that the time has come when we had best stop dickering and changing at every opportunity. Things should be so arranged that this continual dickering with the insignia and the name should cease.

Acting G. P. : I should like to ask the delegate from Stanford if it is their custom to put the name 'of the Fraternity on their door? .

Stanford : Yes.

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Acting G. P.: Why not put up on the door the "Leland Stanford Chapter of the Acacia Fraternity"?

Stanford: This might be all right. But we don't want to advertise the fact that we are a fraternity. Being considered a club, we are often left off the list of invitations to social gatherings.

Colorado: We have somewhat the same trouble in our university. The chapter is new, which is one of the reasons for our troubles along this line. We have several applications from men who wish to join. They think that all Masons have a right to join. We have been admitted to the Pan-Hellenic Association at Boulder.

Cornell: About two-thirds of the signers of this petition are from Stanford or California. Coffman, from Cornell, is on this list. He was in Cornell several years ago, and we don't feel that his opinion on this matter is representative of Cornell Chapter, as we all disapprove of adopting the Greek letters or of changing the name of Acacia.

Manhattan: We had a little trouble in being called the Acacia Club. The club part was carried over from the Masonic Club, more than from the A<;acia Club. We have worked out of this by our student activities, and have had no trouble since shortly after our installation.

Columbia: In the list of fraternities in the blue book, we are listed as a special fraternity, and not with the Greek-letter fraternities.

Kansas: We have had the same trouble as at Stanford. For the past ten years we have had this trouble. We have considered and discussed policies to overcome it. We have been classed as a local fraternity, a club, a special fraternity, and in different ways. This past year we have had the best recognition. We are well represented on the Year Book or Annual gotten out by the senior class, and The KwnsOtn, the daily paper of the university. In the Year Book we have been placed among the National Fraternities for the first time.

Michigan: Is there any record of how many of these chapters are recognized in the Interfraternity Conference of their colleges?

Acting G P. : There are twelve chapters that are members of Interfraternity Councils. The National Fraternity is a member of the National Interfraternity <;:onference. Of the twelve that are not members, six are holding aloof, or are giving that impression.

Michigan: We wish to maintain the name Acacia. We have gone through the same ropes that Stanford has. Get into the campus activities and do the work that will give you recognition and let you become members of the Interfraternity Conference. Standing aloof is typical of Acacia. We are in favor of getting into the Interfraternity Conference, because you will not gain recognition from the rest of the organizations on the campus unless you do belong to the conference. In this way you will work out' of that condition you are now in, that is, of being thought of as a club. It is all a question of personal effort on the part of the different chapters.

Chicago : We put on a degree in a downtown lodge in Chicago, and the Worshipful Master introduced us as the Masonic Club of the University of Chicago. Our member who took the part of Worshipful Master corrected this impression. Most of our troubles start at home. We should let the Masons know just what we are

A vote was called for to the effect that this Fraternity be universally called Acacia. Acting Grand President Frazer announced that the ayes have it unanimously.

Acting Grand President Frazer called for the rep orts of committees , announcing that the recommendati o n from each committee wou ld be considered as a motion duly seconded

COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS.

PRE A MBLE.

We, students, faculty and alumni of various universities and co ll eges, being Master Masons , and beli ev in g that the principles o f Freemasonry are worthy of the most careful cultivation amo n g uni ve rsitie s and college brethren, do h ereby adopt this Constitution for the purp ose of s trengthenin g the ti es of friend ship one w ith another, to d eve l o p a greater zeal for the Mas o ni c instituti o n , to prepare ourselves as educated men to take a m ore ac ti ve part a nd ha v e a g reater influ ence in the affa i rs of the community in which we ma y r esi de , and above all to seek th e truth and knowin g it to give li g ht to thos e with whom we may be associated as we tr ave l along life's pathway.

Acting G. P . : There being no objection, it is so ordered.

Article I. N arne.

CONSTITUTION . ARTICLE I.

NAM E.

" The association gove rned by this Constitution shall be known as the Acacia Fraternity , an4 have exclusive jurisdiction throughout the world.

Acting G. P.: There being no objection, it is so ordered.

ARTICLE II.

MEMBERSHIP.

Section I. This Fraternity shall consist of the various chapters located at the several universities or colleges, and organized hereinafter provided.

Section 2. The active membership of each chapter shall be composed entirely of students, members of the faculty, and alumni of the university or college at which it is located, who are Master Masons in good standing and members of a lodge working under the jurisdiction of a regular Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, or Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and vouched for by some member of the chapter.

Ordered.

Section 3· Any student who shall have been an active member of any chapter for four (4) years or upon severing his connection with the university or college , may become an alumnus member of such chapter, or if he so elects, remain an active member by paying the regular dues, but the said member upon re-entering or continuing in the same institution shall again become active unless excused by the chapter.

Cornell: Must a man be an active member four years?

Chairman : Unless he graduates or leaves the institution.

Harvard: The Harvard Chapter objects to this. We ought to have time to consider this, as it is a material change.

Michigan: Are you including in that something about paying alumni dues?

Chairman: This comes first. It will be explained later on in the article.

Member: Will you drop out the phrase "on the payment of alumni dues"?

Chairman : Yes.

Harvard: We object to this, because it is impossible to consider this phrase from a constitutional point of view in two minutes. This should be put before the Conclave.

Acting G. P.: That is what we are after. We have postponed changing this Constitution for three years, and now is the time to take a definite stand on it.

Penn. State: Suppose a man does not graduate in four years. Is he an alumnus then?

Nebraska: There is an "or" in the clause. He becomes an alumnus, even though he never graduates.

Chicago: We object to the last four words, "unless excused by the chapter." We think that no chapter ought ever to be allowed to excuse a man who is in the university from being an active member.

Michigan : This is too stringent. If we compel men to. be active, there will not be much brotherly feeling, at least it will not help it at all. Those last four words are quite essential to the sense of the whole article.

Grand Secretary: There are one or two words in the present Constitution that are troublesome, especially the word "alumnus." Daleth has had the matter up this year, and several of the chapters have made a law by judicial interpretation. The law is plain to most of us, but the officers of several of the chapters have found much trouble in these three sections.

Acting G. P.: Under the present rule a man initiated as an active member after May I, and leaving school is not liable for dues if he did not return to the institution again. If he is a graduate or an alumnus member, or a member of the faculty, he must pay dues for one year after initiation. That puts upon the office of the Grand Secretary the burden of finding out from the secretaries of the different chapters whether a man is a faculty" member when he comes in. Two years ago this section was submitted to the chapter with the idea of requiring everybody to pay a year's per capita dues. We yvant t? state th_is iX: such a way that there will be no trouble in interpreting tt and m enforcmg tt.

This section will be marked to be debated later.

Section 4· Any member of the faculty, who shall have been elected an active member of any chapter, may become an alumnus member after the expiration of one year by paying the alumni dues, or if he so elects remain an active member paying the regular dues.

No objection.

Section s. No chapter shall elect during any one college or university year more than two faculty members, provided however that this shall not apply to those faculty members who are regularly enrolled as students.

Colorado: Why exclude more than two? We think that the chapter should be allowed to use its discretion in this matter.

Acting G. P.: Have you more than two a year who were simply faculty men?

Colorado: No. I do not see your reason for limiting the number.

Illinois: The object of limiting the number was to get down to a point where the men in the Fraternity would be college students. The faculty men are good men to have, but we don't want a fraternity of faculty people, but one of students. There has been an abuse of this privilege of initiating faculty men.

Ames : How will this operate on new chapters?

Acting G. P. : The same as everybody else. Take faculty men in more from the standpoint of honorary membership than of student membership.

Harvard: How many faculty men have the Ames and Manhattan chap1:ers installed recently?

Acting G. P.: Manhattan took in about six faculty members while it was a Masonic club.

Manhattan: We had a number of faculty men taken in from the Masonic club. Not more than twenty-five per cent. of the faculty members were in the club at any time. We question the advisability of limiting the number to two faculty men. Several members have left town, and next year about two more will leave. We prefer to see the question settled on the percentage basis.

Section 6. Any alumnus of the university or college, who shall have been elected an active member, after severing his connection with the university or college, may become an alumnus member after the expiration of one year, or if he so elects, remain an active member by paying the regular dues.

Acting G. P.: You can elect as many alumni members of the school as YOU wish. For instance, Michigan can elect men who have been members of ihe university for at least one year, say in 188o.

Section 7. Any Master Mason in good standing, and a member of a lodge working under the jurisdiction of a regular Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, or Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and vouched for by some member ·of a chapter of this Fraternity, may be elected an honorary member of that chapter, subject to the approval of the Grand Council, and the Grand · Secretary shall notify the chapter and the said member of their action. Honorary members shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of alumni members.

Acting G. P.: My suggestion is that the Grand Secretary shall notify the honorary member elected of his election. In this way no man could be ·elected unless the Grand Council has acted upon him.

Iowa: We have been troubled in Iowa in this matter of electing hon·orary members. They have been elected without being sanctioned by the Grand Council. This has embarrassed us very much. We believe that they should be officially notified of their election by the Grand Council.

Harvard: Honorary members should be made members of the Fraternity. When we elect a member and elect him as a member of the local chap·ter, and not a member of the National Fraternity, we are admitting that we are a local club. Why elect ' a man an honorary member of five different chapters? Why not make him an honorary member of the National Frater·nity?

Acting G. P.: This was the case some time ago; but I am sure that the Grand Council would not approve of that action today.

Michigan: If we elect an honorary member, we want him to be personally connected with that chapter; but, of course, he would be a member of the National Acacia Fraternity.

Nebraska: An honorary member is a member of the National Fraternity at large; his particular membeTShip is with the chapter that elects him.

Section 8. No chapter having five or more honorary members shall initiate more until their number have reached four or less. No chapter in the future shall have at any one. time more than five honorary members, provided however, that this shall not effest honorary members already initiated.

Nebraska : The minority report on this section would like to change the wording that not more than one honorary member in two years be elected, thereby putt,ing .no limitation on the number.

Ames : We should like to second that. We don't think that honorary members should be compelled to die off before electing new ones.

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Ohio State: We do not think we should be limited to five honorary members. They may become beyond the age of usefullness and by the propose'd rule we could not elect new ones in their places.

Acting G. P.: Are our honorary members to be active and useful, or are they to be honored ? ·

Ohio State: We make men honorary members not only for the honor we bestow upon them , but for the help tliey will give us.

Acting G. P.: Chicago has not elected an honorary member; Wisconsin has only one , and perhaps will not have another; several chapters do not believe in honorary members, while seven or eight have as many as half a dozen or more. Some chapters take only a man who is prominent in his work. The highest honor in Masonry is the active thirty-third degree, and election comes only on the death of the man who holds it.

Missouri: We have ten honorary members. We have received more help from them than any of our alumni. We favor the second or minority report.

Harvard: We are against limiting the number of honorary members. We think this is a local question and should be left to the local chapters. The National Conclave is interfering in attempting to dictate in the mere question of number of honorary members.

Illinois : We think the chapters need protection. It should be an honor to be elected an hon,orary member of the Fraternity. A chapter may be embarrassed in regard to a local Mason who has helped them considerably Some of our honorary members have been of help to us, and some have not.

· Columbia: We favor limiting the number of honorary members. About one - half of our honorary members have been useful to us We should like to see some scheme wqrked out whereby we would not be limited to too small a number.

Wisconsin: We have only ohe honorary member, and we elected him because we wished to honor him. We shall never elect another until this man is dead. The Greek letter fraternities elect an honorary member when they want to get something out of him. We are against adopting this scheme in the Acacia Fraternity.

Acting G. P.: If any chapter comes up to me with the name of a man for honorary membership, and I have the least suspicion that he is being elected for what he has contributed to the house fund or will contribute to this fund, I shall vote against him.

Ames: We are in favor of electing two or three honorary members, to be elected by all the chapters. We can give other titles to the men who are already honorary members of the different chapters. The man who is elected to the thirty-third degree is not elected by any local lodge, so why should any chapters elect a man to an honor comparable to the thirty-third degree?

Penn. State: We are absolutely opposed to the election of honorary members for any purpose -other than to honor that man. We have only one honorary member.

California: We have one honorary member. He is not a university man and is not very closely connected with us. Honorary membership should be given for services rendered to Acacia. We have found a man who will probably finance our building proposition. We don't expect to elect him to honorary membership for this, and he does not expect it. We should like to see a man like the founder who spoke to us last night be placed on the honorary list.

Pennsylvania: We have three honorary members. They have not been asked to help the Fraternity. We think three honorary members sufficient.

Yale: We have five honorary members at present.

Acting G. P. : Brother Taft this year has been an extremely valuable member of Acacia. He has attended the meetings of the Harvard Chapter; he has lectured before the Yale Chapter, and he has attended the meeting s at Columbia. ·

An amendment was offered to cover the minority report.

Acting G. P.: This amendment is out of order, as it changes the entire text of the original motion. It is a substitute motion.

Wisconsin: Let us have a roll call on the original motion.

Nebraska: What is the decision of the chair?

Acting G. P.: The amendment goes to the complete substance of the original motion, and so is out of order. I will entertain an appeal from the chair without debate.

Nebraska : I make a substitute motion, that the honorary membership be limited to one in two years.

Vote: Ayes, 8; noes, 15. Result: Substitute motion lost.

Vote on the original motion to limit the number of honorary membership to five at any one time, without prejudice to present honorary members.

Vote: Ayes, 16; noes, 7· Result: Being a two-thirds majority, the motion is adopted.

Section 9. Any active, alumnus or honorary member, who shall suffer the loss of his standing as a Master Mason, shall, while under such disability, forfeit his rights and privileges as a member.

No .change. Ordered.

Section ro. Upon the initiation of a new member the Secretary of the chapter shall send the Grand Secretary an individual membership record on a form furnished by him.

No change. Ordered.

Section II. Membership in any chapter of Acacia Fraternity shall be by invitation, and the name or names submitted at a stated or special meeting at least one week before final action. The action shall be by secret ballot, and a unanimous vote shall be necessary for election.

Colorado: We cannot wait a week for a man, because the other fraternities are after him.

Stanford: We have the same difficulty at Stanford.

Cornell: We have violated the rules in this respect. In the spring we get hold of some man and act upon him. We have taken ac.tion upon information given to us about a man in less than a week.

Michigan: We have the same difficulty, and have violated this rule.

Acting G . .P.: Here is a law which is persistently violated by nearly all of the chapters. As this section does not seem favorable to the chapters, let us have it changed so that we can have something that we can carry out.

Wisconsin: We would favor a change in this rule so that each chapter could work out its bidding as local conditions required.

Missouri: This provision should not be confined to the first week of the year alone, but to the last week as well.

Cornell: We favor it throughout the year

Illinois: We have not violated this provision. We have not found it necessary. The class of men we go after should be men who could wait seven days. There should be no hurry about this matter. .

Nebraska: We have violated this rule. We have the straw ballot system. On the following Monday night we have the official ballot.

Michigan: This year in the Interfraternity Council there was a new rule that no pledging could be done after the first of June, and no pledging done except in Ann Arbor ten days previous to the opening of school. We had a man we had been looking after all year; he had friends in other fraternities; in order to get him we had to violate this section of the Constitution.

Kansas: Tendency is to have a fixed time for pledging, runl).ing from a week to a year. Fraternities have found this a favorable ruling, and it should be followed.

Grand Treasurer: In regard to this one week clause, I might say that it was put in there as a safeguard to prevent the holding of star-chamber meetings to elect when one man is absent; and also to stop electing a man too hurriedly. But if it will not be lived up to, I think we should eliminate the clause.

Colorado: We have a very few Masons in our school. The other frats -can pledge when they wish. We cannot compete with them if we are limited to one week. We have only six or seven men in the nouse, and if we let four or five slip by, we will be in a bad fix.

Chicago: We have had no trouble in living up to this particular section. Our rushing rules do not hinder us, as we are not in the council. We should impress upon the chapters that they should not be too hasty, but should give a considerable time to look over the men. But this should be 1eft to the local chapter itself to decide.

The chairman called for disposition of the section.

Cornell offered an amendment to the effect that the one week clause be struck out.

Vote: Yes, 13; no, 10. Result: Motion lost, because of the lack of a cQnstitutiona1 maiority.

\Visconsin: We wish to offer an amendment "excepting the first week of each term, quarter, or semester," to be added after the clause about the -one week.

Vote: Yes, I 5 ; no, 8. Result: Motion lost, because of the lack of a -constitutional majority. Ordered.

Section 12. The entire initiation ceremony shall be secret, and include only the -forms prescribed by the Ritual approved and adopted by the Grand Conclave. Ordered.

ARTICLE III.

GRAND CoNCLAVE. •

Section I. The Grand Conclave shall be the gathering of the 1Jf the various chapters, at such time and place as shall have been previously determined by the Grand Conclave, provided that the time and place of meeting mar be changed by the Grand Council for good and sufficient reasons. Ordered.

Section 2. The legislative power of the Acacia Fraternity shall be vested the Grand Conclave, each chapter being represented by one representative

one vote. This body shall also have sole power of electing and installing the Grand Officers . Ordered.

Section 3· The revenue of the Grand Conclave shall be derived from the following sources :

I. An annual per capita tax upon the active membership.

2. An initiation fee into chartered chapters.

3· Initiation fees of charter members into new chapters.

4· Charter fees.

s. Such other sources as the Grand Conclave may from time to time determine upon. Ordered.

Section 4· Upon recommendation of the Grand Council, the Grand Conclave may revoke the charter of any chapter, upon two-thirds vote of the representatives present. Ordered.

Section s. The following shall be the order of business governing the Grand Conclave:

I. Approval of Credentials as recommended by the Grand Council.

2. Reading of Minutes of preceding Grand Conclave.

J. Report of Grand Officers. ·

(a) Grand President.

(b) Grand Vice-president.

(c) Grand Treasurer

(d) Grand Secretary.

4· Reports of Grand Council.

s. Reports of representatives.

6. Appointment of Auditing and Special Committees.

7. Report of Committees.

8. Unfinished business.

9. New business.

10. Election and installation of officers.

II. Good of Fraternity. Ordered.

Section 6 Robert's Rules of Order shall govern the deliberation of the Grand Conclave on all points, not covered by this Constitution and By-Laws. Ordered.

ARTICLE IV. GRAND CouNCIL.

Section I. The Grand Council shall consist of the Grand President, Grand Vicepresident, Grand Treasurer, Grand Secretary, and Grand Editor. Ordered.

Section 2. The Grand Council shall be the supreme executive and judicial body of the Fraternity, except in granting and revoking charters. Ordered.

Section J. )'he Grand Council shall constitute a permanent Committee on Endowment, for administration of all endowment for this Fraternity. All funds known as the Endowment Fpnd shall be held separate by the Grand Treasurer, and the Grand Secretary shall furnisb copies of THE JoURNAL gratuitously to the donors. Ordered.

Section 4· All meetings of the Grand Council, except that held at the time of the Grand Conclave, shall be at the call of the Grand President, subject to a referendum vote of the chapters, as follows : Ordered.

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Section s. The Grand President shall send to each chapter a statement specifying the time, place, approximate cost, and matters demandi':g the attention of the .Proposed meeting. If a majority of the votes receiVed by the Grand Pr.es1dent within thirty days from the date of malimg the statements, favor the meetmg, he is authorized to convene the Grand Council.

Ordered.

Section 6. By a majority vote, the Grand Council shall have power to suspend the charter of any chapter, whose conduct shall be such as to bring discredit or dishonor upon itself or the Fraternity. The Grand Council shall not continue the suspension of a charter longer than the next meeting of the Grand Conclave without the consent of that body.

Ordered.

Section 7. The Grand Council shall pass upon the credentials of the representatives, subject to the approval of the Grand Conclave.

Ordered.

ARTICLE V. OFFICERS.

Section I. The Grand Officers shall consist of Grand President, Grand Vicepresident, Grand Treasurer, Grand Secretary and Grand Editor, who shall be elected at the Grand Conclave from the alumni membership and shall be university or college graduates, and hold office until their successors are elected and installed.

Ordered.

Section 2. In case of a vacancy in a Grand Office, it shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining Grand Officers.

Ordered .

.Section 3. The Grand President shall preside at the Grand Conclave and at the meetings of the Grand Council, appoint all committees pertaining thereto, and shall have charge of the relation of the Acacia Fraternity to Masonry and review the semi-annual financial reports of each chapter.

Ordered.

Section 4· In case of a tie on any proposition the Grand President shall cast the deciding vote.

Ordered.

Section s. The Grand Vice-president shall have charge of the extension of the Fraternity and all matters pertaining to the installation of new chapters, and perform such other duties as usually pertain to this office.

Ordered.

Section 6. The Grand Treasurer shall receive all moneys from the Grand Secretary, pay all bills, and keep a strict account of the same. He shall be required to make a semi-annual statement to the individual chapters through THE JouRNAL. Ordered.

Section 7. The Grand Secretary shall keep records of the Grand Conclave and of the Grand Council. He shall receive all moneys due and to the Grand Conclave, shall keep vouchers of all bills paid; shall keep a strict account of the same and shall forward all moneys, so received, to the Grand Treasurer. He shall receive and record the semi-annual financial reports of each chapter after they have been reviewed by the Grand President. He shall submit at the opening of each Conclave a formal report accompanied by vouchers covering his term's work as specified above; he shall receive for performing the above duties such compensation as the Grand Conclave may determine.

Ordered.

Section 8. The Grand Editor shall be the editor of THE JouRNAL and shall select associate editors as he may deem proper and have the responsibility of an authority for the publication of AcACIA JoURNAL. He shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary expenses incurred in the publication of THE Jo u RNAL. Ordered.

Section 9. The Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary shall each give a security company's bond in the sum of not less than one thousand dollars and as much more as the Grand Conclave may require, the same to be approved and held by the Grand President. The premium on said bonds to be paid by the Grand Conclave. Ordered.

Section IO. The Grand Officers shall each submit a formal report covering the work of their term of office, at the opening of the Grand Conclave. Ordered.

Section II. The further duties of the officers shall be as provided for m the By-Laws. Ordered.

ARTICLE VI.

CHAPTERS.

Section I. A charter for a chapter of this Fraternity may be granted by the Grand Council, upon the application of twelve or more Master Masons in good standing, and members of lodges working under the jurisdiction of a regular Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons or Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, who are students in or members of the faculty of any college or university, after due investigation by the Grand Vice-president, and by a four-fifths favorable vote of all chapters in good standing. The investigation of the application shall be as provided for in the By-Laws. Ordered.

Section 2. The referendum vote of chapters in all cases is determined by the majority of those voting in each chapter. Ordered.

Section 3. Each new chapter shall pay an initiation fee on all charter members and a charter fee as provided for in the By-Laws. Ordered .

Sectiort 4· The chapter shall have jurisdiction over local affairs, and may adopt a Constitution and By-Laws for its government, providing they do not conflict with the Constitution and By-Laws of the Grand Conclave Such Constitution and By-Laws or any amendment thereto must be submitted at some stated meeting prior to the time of final action and a two-thirds vote shall be required to adopt the same. Ordered.

Section s. Each chapter shall be known and designated by the name of the institution in which said chapter is located. Pennsylvania : When the chapter was organized it was known as the Franklin Chapter o-f the University of Pennsylvania. We still wish to be called by this name.

Acting G. P.: This custom is not contrary to the intent of this section. But it is a custom which should not be incorporated in the Constitution or By-Laws. Ordered.

Section 6. The officers of a chapter shall be the Venerable Dean, Senior Dean ,.. Secretary, Treasurer, Senior Steward , Junior Stew a rd , Sentinel, provided that a house steward and assistant steward may be elected or chosen by the individual chapter as they may provide.

Harvard: Would our chapter be violating this rule in not electing a steward, as we have no table?

Acting G. P.: I think not.

Harvard: Is he an officer of the Fraternity?

Acting G. P.: He is. In at least ten of our chapters the steward is an important officer, sometimes being elected before the Venerable Dean.

Harvard: We think you are electing too many officers.

Chicago: There is a peculiarity in Illinois corporation law that requires the election of a steward.

Penn. State: This is a matter that can be left in the hands of the local chapters. Conditions in the different chapters vary so much that there is difficulty in laying down a general rule.

Illinois: We object. Stewards are officers just the same as any other · officers. ·

Acting G. P.: Harvard has a house, yet seems not to need a steward.

Harvard: We have no table.

Pennsylvania: About one-third of our table is comprised of alumni members, who do not have a vote in the active chapter.

Michigan: The election of our steward is done by our board of control, made up of four or five active men and our faculty men. We consider· the judgment of the latter very desirable in deciding this matter. We should object to having our steward elected simply by the active men.

Harvard: We have no right to elect an officer until his office is created by the Conclave. If the Conclave creates new offices we must change our papers of incorporation, which is an enormous task. Why not appoint these · men as employees, and not as officers?

Acting G. P.: It is advisable to have the man mentioned as a constitu-· tiona! officer.

Harvard: It seems that you are creating an office and forcing an officer upon us.

Acting G. P.: The chapters "may" elect this officer, but it is not compulsory.

Ordered.

Section 7. The officers of the chapters, and their duties shall be as provided for by the Ritual, and their chapter Constitution and By-Laws. Ordered.

Section 8. The officers shall be chosen annually by ballot not later than thefirst stated meeting in May of the college or university year.

Nebraska: The minority would like to change this to leave it at the option of the local chapter, but p.ot later than the end of the last week of the · school year.

Missouri and Cornell supported the minority report.

Acting G. P.: We need to prescribe some sort of a fiscal year. I am strongly" of the opinion that every chapter should come up to the Grand ideqt and prove a clean slate. The fiscal year should commence on May fir t or on some definite date.

Michigan : We should like to offer a substitute amendment that wehave a definite date for the ending of the fiscal year; that the election of of-

ficers take place during the first bi-monthly meeting in May; that the installation of officers take place the second bi-monthly meeting in May.

Acting G. P.: This will be left to the committee.

Section 9· The fiscal year of each chapter shall close on May 15th of each year. Ordered.

Section IO. Each chapter shall be responsible for the payment of the Grand Conclave annual per capita tax, and initiation fees, and shall pay the same direct to the Grand Secretary as provided in the By-Laws.

Ames : Is there any penalty for not following these rules?

Acting G. P. : The Grand President should suspend the chapter or put it up to the next Grand Conclave. Ordered.

Section 11. Each chapter shall practice in keeping the records and accounts only the forms provided by the Grand Council. Ordered.

Section 12. Each chapter shall make such reports as are provided for in the By-Laws.

Ordered.

Section 13. Each chapter shall issue at least twice a year a chapter letter to its alumni.

Harvard: This puts a burden upon the chapter .and interferes with their communications with their alumni. It is not the duty of the Grand Conclave to say that the chapters shall write to their alumni members.

Cornell: We agree with the expressions of the delegate from Harvard.

Acting G. P.: Let have a show of hands.

Result was against adopting the section.

Illinois : I call for a formal vote.

Vote: Yes, 7; no, 16. Result: Motion lost for want of constitutional majority.

Section 14. Stated meetings of each chapter shall be held semi-monthly during the university or college year, and special meetings at the call of the Venerable Dean.

Columbia: We object to this clause. We have our meetings every two weeks and call for special meetings as required. This meets our situation.

Cornell: We object, for the same reasons as Columbia.

Illinois: Weekly meetings are necessary. Acacia spirit is running low if we don't have meetings every week.

California: We second the suggestion of Illinois.

Columbia: We should consider local conditions. The National Fraternity should not impose this arbitrarily upon any chapter.

Manhattan: This is an imposition upon the chapter. We have a meeting every two weeks, and we have a get-together meeting every two weeks, which means that we really meet every week. A weekly meeting with full ceremony would be a hardship upon the members with heavy work.

Missouri : We meet once a week for an hour. This spring we have taken up the practice of meeting at ten o'clock on Saturday evenings.

Vote: Yes, 10; no, 13. Result: Motion lost.

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Section 15. A majority of the active members shall constitute a quorum for the tran sac tion of business.

Ordered.

Section r6. Any member in good standing of any chapter may become affiliated with another chapter upon their invitation and with the consent of his own chapter. Notice of such affiliation shall be given by the affili a ting chapter to the Grand Secretary, and to the chapter from which he comes.

Chicago: We have four or five men from other chapters whom we would like to affiliate. They want to affiliate just for the summer months.

Acting G. P.: Affiliation means that a member drops from his own chapter and enters the roll of the new chapter. He can't get back without a formal vote of the chapter.

Ordered .

Section 17 Active members of gene ral , national , social college fraternities shall not be eligible to memb e r sh ip in Acacia , and members of Acacia joining general, nati ona l, social college fraternities shall forfeit their membership in Acacia.

Acting G. P.: This has been debated so many years that we ought to know just how we stand.

It was moved and seconded that there be a roll call without debate.

Vote: Yes, 18; no, 5· Result: Motion adopted.

This will'be referred to the different chapters for final action.

Section r8. Any chapter after due investigation may prefer charges against and expel or suspend any of its active or alumni members. Such members shall have the right of appeal to the Grand Council. Notice of such expulsion or suspension shall be sent to all other chapters and to the Grand Officers. In case of an appeal such notice shall not be sent until after the Grand Council shall have taken action. Ordered.

ARTICLE VII. AMENDMENTS.

Section I. Amendments to this Constitution may be made by a two-thirds vote of the Grand Conclave and approved by a two-thirds referendum vote of all the chapters in good standing, voting within sixty days after mailing of notice. If the amendment be approved by two-thirds vote of those voting the Grand President shaU make due proclamation thereof declaring the amendment carried at which time the amendment shall become effective and shall so notify the chapters. Ordered.

Motion made by Michigan, seconded by Yale, that the meeting adjourn until two o'clock. Meeting adjourned at 12.10 p.m.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION.

At 2.15 p. m. the Conclave was called to order by Acting Grand President Frazer.

The report of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws was continued.

Article II. Section 3·

Section 3· Any student who shall have been an active member of any chapter for four (4) years or upon severing his connection with the university <..r college, may become an alumnus member of such chapter, or if he so elects, remain an active member by paying the regular dues, but the said member upon re-entering or coatinuing in the same institution shall again become active unless excused by the chapter.

Harvard : We are not materially bettering this by changing it. If a man comes to Harvard and stays four years and gets a degree, he has the privilege of saying whether he will be active or not if he stays in the university. The change now is giving him this right while he is still in the college .

Acting G. P.: Harvard raises the point that under this regulation a man after attending college four years would cease to be active , and even if he has no degree he has the privilege of becoming inactive if he wishes.

Harvard: We wish to offer a motion to the effect that the privilege of declaring himself inactive be given only to a man who has received a degree.

Penn. State seconded this motion.

Grand Secretary: A man until he graduates must be a member of a chapter unless he is excu sed This is fixed by judicial legi slation.

Chairman: This situ.ation has arisen . A man may be in an institution one year after becoming a member of Acacia, graduate, return for further work and enjoy all the privileges of the h o use, and yet be relieved of all burdens of active membership and all dues. A man who has been an active supporter of Acacia for four years then would have some just claim to be relieved, if the chapter saw fit to relieve him , though he lived in the house . Harvard ' s contention is that he should be active until he graduates.

Grand Secretary: The four year idea is a good one. The chapter should have the right to excuse a man. I am of the opinion that there should be a s pecified period, and not at graduation.

Chairman : This section is to drive at this one thing, and that is, where a man is in an institution and receives his degree as an Acacian, and still continues there for graduate work and shares in the benefits of Acacia without assuming any of its burdens. This situation has arisen in Syracuse.

Harvard: We agree with this. We think it wrong for a man to be active in his university and not bear some of the burdens of Acacia. Now we insist upon a man having a degree. The re-entering clause is a little vague. If he stayed in the college four years and the chapter gave him the privilege of becoming inactive and then he left and came back after a year, what is his situation? He must bear the burdens of Acacia unless excused by the chapter.

Harvard and Penn. State agreed to withdraw the amendment. Ordered.

Article II. Section 7.

Section 7. Any Master Mason in good standing, and a member of a lodge working under the jurisdiction of a regular Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, or Ancient Free and Accepted Masons , and vouched for by some member of. a chapter of this Fraternity, may be elected an honorary member of that chapter, subJect to the approval of the Grand Council, and the Grand Secretary shall nottfy the chapter and the said member of their action. Honorary members shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of alumni members . Ordered.

Article VI. Section 8.

Section 8. The officers shall be chosen by ballot not .later than the first stated meeting in May of the college or umverstty year.

Acting G. P.: Officers must be chosen not later than the first meetmg m May.

Ordered.

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Article VI. Section 9 ·

Section g. The fisc a l ye a r of ea ch chapter shall close on May 15th of each year.

Chicago: Election of officers should be twice a year, one election being at the date set in this section. We prefer to have another one the first of November , owing to the summer school conditions at Chicago We need a man there for the summer quarter. It makes it better for us to have twO> elections a y ear.

Acting G . P.: It h a s been the cu stom to have annual elections .

Chicago: We would suggest that this matter be left to the different chapters.

Columbia: We object to having two elections a year.

Yale: We still have the system of two elections a year.

Ames and Iowa State follow thi s .

Grand Secretary: It has always been a poor system to elect two men during the year , according to my experience. Those who are installed for the whole year handle the bu s iness better. The men ought to be elected early enough in the spring to get started during the year that is closing and come back prepared to carr y the work through the major part of the next year.

Iowa: Election should be soon after the first semester closes. Chicago wishes to offer this as an amendment, adding the words "or semi-annually." Sec onded by Ohio State.

Amendment lost.

Michigan: It would be more advantageous to have the fiscal year end at the time the old officers go out of office.

Acting G. P . : We want to have a Grand President who can compare reports of the different chapters. To do this we must have reports covering the same period of time.

Cornell : We think there should be a set time for the beginning and ending of the fiscal year

Acting G. P.: The chairman of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws, seconded by Illinois, has moved the adoption of all those sections presented by the committee and not specifically voted upon. Having received the necessary two-thirds vote, they are adopted and will be submitted to the different chapters.

Harvard: We had some trouble with the Greek letter amendment last year, owing to the difficulty of defining the word "active." Why not put in a definition at this time? By "active" we mean a man who is considered active by the Greek fraternity to which he belongs.

Acting G. P.: I would suggest that you go over this matter with some Greek men here and bring in the definition you want.

Grand Treasurer Fay relieved Acting Grand President Frazer at this point.

Continuation of the report of the Committee on Constitution and ByLaws.

Section I. BY-LAWS.

All applications for charters in this Fraternity shall be investigated by the Graad Vice-president or by a committee selected by him. All expense incurred in c:onueoo tion with such investigation shall be borne by the applicants. The applications lhall contain the following information :

(a) Name in full of such applicant, followed by date and place of birth.

(b) Name, number and location of the Masonic Lodge of which he is a member.

(c) Class and department in college or university.

(d) Collegiate honors.

(e) College or university clubs and organization of which he is a member.

(If a member of the faculty, state his position and of what institution he is a

What toward. the maintenance of a chapter house? If your. submttted as md!Vtdual applicants or as an organization? If the latter, of the same, and other information respe ct ing the standing .of the mst1tut10n, number of Masons therem, number and name of other fraternities such additional data as the Grand Vice-president may require and deem necessary m order that the chapters may have a full knowled ge of · the condition existing at the place where the proposed chapter is to be instituted.

The applicant shall furnish a sufficient number of copies of their application containing this information for distribution to each of the chapters and Grand Officers.

If four-fifths of the chapters ac t favorably upon the application the Grand Vicepresident shall submit the matter to the Grand Council, who may then issue a -charter.

The Grand Vice-president shall forward all correspondence and records regarding the application for and granting of a charter to the Grand Secretary, who shall record .and file the same.

Ordered.

Section 2.

A member of Acacia Fraternity shall live at the local chapter house so long as he remains in the university or college at which his chapter is loc a ted unless excused by l1is chapter.

Ordered.

Section 3.

All resident graduate students carrying full work, and all graduate students shall take a preliminary obligation, which shall provide that the candidate shall, at all times, hold his allegiance to the Acacia Fraternity first and highest among all academic -college fraternity obligations and duties.

Ordered.

Section 4·

The pledging of a prospective member shall consist of the pledging ceremony as !Prescribed in the Ritual. The use of a pledge pin shall be as provided for by the individual chapters.

Ordered.

Section S·

After the pledging of a candidate, and before his initiation he shall be required to ·fill out a membership record and a duplicate thereof shall be filled out by the chapter Secretary. The candidate shall sign both the original and the duplicate and imme-diately upon his initiation the chapter Secretary shall forward the original to the office of the Grand Secretary and file the duplicate in the archives of the chapter. Upon request the Grand Secretary will furnish these blanks to the chapter Secretaries. When .a new chapter is to be installed, the Grand Vice-president shall notify the Grand Secretary where membership record blanks shall be sent, and before the installation .of the new chapter, the original and duplicate membership records shall be filled out and signed by the proposed members and the same shall be turned over to the newly .elected Secretary, who shall send the original to the office of the Grand Secretary and shall file the duplicate in the archives of the chapter.

Ordered.

Section 6.

Each candidate shall after the pledging ceremony and. before his initiation instructed in the history and traditions of the Acacia Fratermty, and shall before he ts initiated pass a satisfactory examination in the following:

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First, da te and place of founding of Acacia; second, chapter roll; third, name and address of National Officer s ; fourth , Pre a mble.

The e x amination as to the proficienc y of a candidate for ad v ancement shall be held in an op en fraternity meeting either stated or special, and a majority of those present shall be required t o d eci d e (Sec t i on r eg a rd in g M ason.i c Exam i nation. st ruc k o u t.)

Penns y lvania: Thi s will conflict with the laws of the Grand Lodge of Penns ylvania. They will not allow the examination of a candidate in Masonry out s ide of the lodge.

P enn. State : Some of the Masons in our state had the idea that we were g o ing to do Masonic work in private houses.

A cting G. P.: The Penn sylvania p o int is well taken. The Grand Lodge does not allow the examination of any Mason outside of the lodge room.

Cornell : We can see no reason why a man should be examined in the first three degrees in Masonry before admitting him to Acacia. Thi s is not a criterion of his becoming a good Acacian .

Ames: We had a man from South Africa. The local lodge was not satisfied that he was a Mason. The Grand Lodge in Iowa finally put him in good standing in the state. He was a Britisher and spoke a brogue. This man could probably not have been admitted to Acacia under the section now under discussion.

Penn . State: We don't believe that we should insist upon proficiency in Masonry as a prerequisite to admission in Acacia. But we are heartily in favor of an examination in the history of Acacia. If they are properly vouched for, that is all the connection with Masonry that we should require. Manhattan: We require an examination in all three degrees and also an examination in Acacia work. We favor the examination in Masonry as suggested.

· Michigan: A man is not required to stand an examination in the third degree in this state, so it would be difficult to examine a man in the whole third degree.

Pennsylvania: One of our active members sits in lodge with every candidate and is present at his examination and entrance into the lodge.

Ames: We can hardly be able to comply with this amendment if passed, the requirement is too severe. In Iowa a man does not have to pass such an examination to get into a lodge room.

Penn. State : We ask for a vote on the question of an examination in Masonry alone.

Vote: Yeas, 7; noes, I 5· Result: Amendment is lost.

The new substitute section, motion by the chairman of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws.

Carried unanimously.

The delegate from Minnesota came in at 3.15 p. m.

Section 7·

All Rituals shall be the property of the Grand Conclave and be in charge of the Grand Secretary. Th e Grand Conclave shall publish and own all official Rituals, which sh a ll be distributed by the Grand Secretary, who shall render a complete account of the s a me t o the Grand Conclave.

Each Ritual shall be numbered, and five assigned to each chapter, and the Venerable Dean shall immediately after his election and installation receipt to the Graad Secr e tar y f o r fi ve copies assigned to his chapter.

Ordered.

Section 8.

The rate of the per capita tax fee the coming year shall be determined by the Grand Conclave based upon the last annual report of the chapters.

The initiation fee for all members into chartered chapters shall be five dollars .

The initiation fee for all charter members shall be ten dollars.

The charter fee for new charters shall be twenty-five dollars.

The amount of the per capita tax shall be determined by the Grand Conclave, the same to be based on the approximated expense for the ensuing year or until the next Grand Conclave.

Each chapter shall pay to the Grand Conclave an annual per capita tax on the roll of active members, and an initiation fee of five dollars for all new members as shown by their annual report.

The annual per capita tax shall be paid to the Grand Secretary semi-annually on or before December rst and May rst of each year. Provided that a chapter shall not be liable for the first semi-annual payment for members initiated after December rst or for the second semi-annual payment for members initiated after May rst.

Each new chapter when organized shall pay to the Grand Secretary an initiation fee of ten dollars for each charter member, and a charter fee of twenty-five dollars. Ordered.

Section 9·

Any chapter failing to pay their per capita tax or initiation fee within thirty days after the same becomes due, may be suspended by the Grand Council. Notice of suspension or reinstatement of a chapter shall be sent to all chapters by the Grand Secretary. Before a chapter can be reinstated by the Grand Council it must have paid the arrearages accrued during the term of such suspension.

Acting G . P. : This section was put in to give the Grand Council the power to make a defunct chapter return its charter. Ordered.

Section IO.

In all cases of the revocation or suspension of charters of any chapter, the charter Ritual and records shall immediately be transmitted to the Grand Secretary.

Ordered .

Section II

The necessary expenses of the accredited representative of each chapter and of the Grand Officers in attendance at the Grand Conclave and all other expenses connected therewith shall be paid out of the general fund. Ordered.

Section 12. The Grand President shall prepare a list of questions covering chapter matters. This list of questions shall be sent to the Secretary of each chapter not later than May 1st of each school year . The Secretary of each chapter shall answer each question and shall return the list for his chapter to the Grand President not later than June 1st of each year. The Grand President shall summarize the answers returned in a report to the Grand Conclave . Ordered .

Section 13. At each Conclave the amount due from any chapter shall be applied upon the expense account of the chapter's delegate. Ordered.

Section 14. Each accredited representative and Grand Officer in attendance at the Grand Conclave shall present to the Grand Secretary not later than the evening preced ing the day of adjournment, an itemized statement of his necessary which statements shall be audited by a committee to be composed of the Grand Secretary, and two representatives appointed by the Grand President. Necessary expenses shall include only transportation to and from the place where the representative's chapter is located, or if a Grand Officer, from his place of residence

to and from, the place of meeting of the Grand Conclave by the most direct and accessible route, and hotel bills for a through trip ; provided that transportation may include sleeping car and 'bus fare.

Ordered.

Section 15. The Grand Officers shall be elected by ballot. Ordered.

Section 16. The Grand Secretary shall keep a record of all members of the Fraternity. He shall collect all moneys due from the chapters, and upon receipt of same he shall immediately transmit it to the Grand Treasurer. He shall send a copy of the minutes of each Grand Conclave to the Secretary of each chapter not later than three months after the Grand Conclave adjourns. He shall keep each chapter informed of the proceedings of the Grand Council, and the official acts of the Grand Officers, and shall send to the Secretary of each chapter semiannual statements, one in December, and one in May, specifying the item and amounts due from the chapter, and the amounts he has received to apply on the same; he shall at the same time send copies of these statements to the other members of the Grand Council.

Ordered.

Section 17. The Grand Secretary shall keep a set of books, consisting of a day book, cash book and ledger ; the Grand Treasurer shall keep a cash book and retain all warrants paid by him; the same to be presented by the aforesaid officers of the Grand Conclave for audit Each delegate to the Grand Conclave shall bring an itemized statement over the signatures · of the chapter President and Secretary of the money paid by his chapter to the Grand Secretary. Such statements shall be filed with the Auditing Committee immediately upon its appointment. The urand Se<.:reLary shall furnish with each delegate credential blank, a blank form for this purpose.

Ordered.

Section 18. The Grand Officers in submitting their reports to the Grand Conclave shall give an inventory of the office furniture and equipment on hand belonging to the Fraternity.

Ordered.

Section 19. At the installation of new chapters, the expense of not more than four delegates shall be paid by the Fraternity, and in addition the expenses of one Grand Officer shall be paid when it is expedient for him to attend. Where it can be done without materially increasing the expenses, the delegates shall be chosen from as many chapters as possible.

Ordered.

Section 20. The report of the Grand Council provided for in the order of business shall be a joint report in which they shall recommend a policy and budget for the ensuing year.

Chicago: We want the one dollar charge for honorary members left in.

Acting G. P.: The chairman of the committee will comply with this request.

Ordered.

Section 21. The Grand Council shall formulate a certificate of membership, which the Grand Secretary shall have printed and keep on hand, one of which he shall engross and send to each new active member upon receiving his individual membership record and his initiation fee; provided that a fee of one dollar shall be charged to the chapter so electing, for a certificate of membership for each honorary member. Ordered.

Section 2 2. The Auditing Committee provided for in the order of business shall consist of tl).ree representatives appojnted by the Grand President. This committee shall examine all vouchers, audit all accounts and report back to the Grand Conclave,

and shall be continued through the Grand Conclave acting as the Committee on Budget ·to whom shall be referred the report of the Grand Council. ' Ordered.

Section 23. Except in the election of Grand Officers any one representative may demand a yea and nay vote upon any motion, whereupon the Grand Secretary shall -call the roll and rec ord the vote of each chapter. Ordered.

Section 24. The official badges of the Grand Officers shall be solid gold pins in the shape of a right ang le triangle of the first quadrant, whose sides with beveled edges, shall be in the ratio of three, four and five, side three forming the base· the centre of said pin to be black enameled background. '

The pin of the Grand President shall have a gold bar parallel to the hypothenuse, extending across the black cent re; the pin of the Grand Vice - president shall have a go ld bar extending from the juncture of the hypothenuse and the base diagonally across the black centre inters ect ing the a ltitude; the pin of the Grand Treasurer shall have a gold bar extending across the black cent re parallel to the altitude; the pin of the Grand Se cretary shall have a gold bar extending across the bl ack centre par a ll el to the base.

Ordered.

Secti on 25. The Ac a cia pin sha ll be worn over the heart. Ordered.

Section 26. The officia l jeweler for this Fraternity sha ll be appo inted by the Grand Co un cil , for a term not exceeding two yea r s, and each chapter and all members thereof shall purchase all official emblems and pledge buttons from the sa id officia l jeweler, under the auspices of the Grand Council.

Penn. State: Does this mean that the jeweler remain s the official jeweler indefinitely until the Grand Council wishes to change it?

Acting G. P.: The proposition as to the Fraternity jeweler is up to the Grand Council. They are to use their di scre tion. If they see fit to change the jeweler at the end of the present contract they may do so.

Ohio State: Who has the right to say just what the pin s hall be?

Acting G. P.: The general description will be in the By-Laws pa ss ed by the Grand Conclave . The personnel of the Grand Council change s every year, and it cannot bind future Grand Councils.

Harvard: The Grand Council can bind the Fraternit y for the future.

Grand Vice President : The Grand Council must follow the instructions of each Grand Conclave from year to year. I want it to be distinctly understood that I believe that any Grand Council will be honest enough to make a good contract for the Fraternity.

Harvard : I agree with the sentiments of the Grand Vice President. But the Grand Council can tie up the Fraternity for more than one year on ·this pin contract .

Acting G . P.: A contract from year to year is a good plan. But in this matter the Grand Council should be given a free hand. I don ' t believe that you should bind the Grand Council. Give them a chance to use their judgment. Your Grand Conclave is not a body that can go into administrative details .

Grand Secretary: I have labored with every Grand Council, and appreciate the confidence of this Conclave in the Grand Council. The sugges. tion of the time limit is a good one, and the authority of the Grand Council ·in thi s matter should be limited.

Cornell: Would the chapters be violating their rights if they bought from a jeweler not the official jeweler?

Acting G. P.: You must buy from the official jeweler.

Ames: Does some part of the money for the pin go into the Grand Council? If so, what is the reason for this?

Grand Vice-president: To provide a source of income for the Grand Conclave and to provide the pins to the members at a smaller price.

Minnesota: Has the report of the committee of the Council on these pins been received?

Actirig G. P.: No.

Amendment is carried unanimously.

Section 27. The Fraternity pin shall be worn only by members of the Fraternity, or by the wife, mother, sister or daughter of a member, or the person to whom he is engaged.

Ordered.

Section 28. The official coat of arms of the Acacia Fraternity shall be composed of a crest, shield, ribbon and motto. The crest shall be that in present use and the shield shall consist of a field in gold bearing fess and two bentlets in black, surmounted by three triangles in gold . The ribbon shall be in blue, emblematical of the Blue Lodge, and the motto "Human Service" inscribed in Greek.

Passed for the present.

Section 29. Orders for traveling cards or card cases for a member shall be made through the Secretary of his chapter. Traveling cards shall be sent free and card cases shall be sent upon receipt of the cost price; provided that no traveling card shall be issued to any member whose membership is not on file in die Grand Secretary's office.

Ordered.

Section 30. The Acacia pledge pin when used by the local chapter shall take the form of a lapel button one quarter of an inch in diameter, whose design shall be a solid triangle of gold, having its sides proportional to three, four, five, and set in a field of black enamel.

Ordered .

Section 31. The official emblem of this Fraternity shall be a pin in the shape of a right angle triangle of the first quadrant, whose sides shall be proportionately, three, four and five, side three being the base. The bounds of this triangle shall be studed with crown set pearls, with either crown set pearls or garnets in the corners; within this triangle shall be three smaller triangles against a black enameled background ; with such other specifications as the Grand Council may have to determine in entering the contract with the official jeweler.

Michigan: Here we are changing the initiation fee continually. We have men who do not feel that they can afford to get a pin at the time of the initiation

Ohio State: Every Conclave we have had has monkeyed with the pin in some way or other, and we ought to get into a position where the Conclave cannot change the pin without the votes of the different chapters. We should put a section in the Constitution to stop this monkey-business.

Illinois : Is it arbitrary that the garnets be placed in the corner?

Acting G. P.: I am of this impression. Suppose we put in this clause: The bounds of this triangle shall be studded with pearls, with either pearls, garnets, or rubies in the corner.

Pennsylvania: If you are going to have different stones in the pin you are not going to have a uniform pin.

Wisconsin: The Committee on Insignia .has a report. Do you want to pass this report ?

Acting G. P.: No.

Grand Vice President Frazer again resumed the chair.

Section 32. Each chapter shall provide each of its active members with an official emblem at the time of his initiation.

Ordered.

Section 33. The whistle of the Acacia Fraternity shall be the first four · notes of Adjutant's call; and the answer the first, third and fourth notes of the same . The whistle shall be illustrated and placed in the Ritual.

Ordered.

Section 34· The Grand Conclave shall authorize the publication of a Journal of the Acacia Fraternity at such time or times of the year as it may direct. A sufficient number of copies shall be printed and supplied to all chapters in order to furnish one copy to each active member for whom the annual or semi-annual per capita tax has been paid as shown by their annual reports.

The appropriation for the publication of THE JouRNAL shall be made through recommendation of the Budget Committee.

Ordered.

TRIALS AND PUNISHMENTS.

Section 35. A chapter may prefer charges against a brother for conduct unbecoming a member of the Fraternity; such charge or charges may be preferred by the chapter or any member of the same; if by the chapter the charge or charges shall be presented by the Secretary and the same shall be signed by the order of the chapter. The chapter shall pass upon the sufficiency of the charges preferred whether presented by the Secretary on behalf of the chapter or by a member. In acting on the sufficiency of the charge or charges a two-thirds vote shall be required to sustain the same.

Ordered.

Section 36. When charges are preferred against a brother they shall be supported by specification and shall be substantially in the following form:

Charge r.

Specification I.

All charges must be supported by one or more specifications as the case may require. If more than one charge be presented one or more specifications must follow each. All specifications must be a clear and concise statement of facts which must support the charge or charges.

Ordered.

Section 37. The accused shall be served with a summons together with a complete copy of the charges and specifications by personal service. If within the jurisdiction of the chapter the same to be served by the Secretary, and if without the jurisdiction the chapter by registered sealed package, and a return receipt for the same shall be considered as sufficient service.

Ordered.

Section 38. if the resides within the jurisdiction of the chapter sha.ll appear and plead at a meetmg to be held not less than ten days after serv1ce; If he resides without the jurisdiction he shall appear and plead at a meetmg not less than thirty days from date of service.

Ordered.

Section 39· After the accused shall have appeared and P.lead, in person or by his representative, the time for trial shall then be estabhshel, wh1ch shall not be

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less than ten days from the date of the communication above referred to, and if without the jurisdiction not less than twenty days.

Ordered.

Section 40. At the time set for trial, if the accused fails to appear or have a representative present, the President shall appoint some brother to act as counsel. The trial then proceed in the customary manner.

Ordered.

Section 41. At the conclusion of the trial the accused and his counsel, as well as visitors, shall retire from the chapter room. The Secretary shall then furnish slips of paper of uniform size, upon which slips of paper shall be written the wor'ds "Guilty" and "Not Guilty." Each brother shall then indicate his judgment as to the guilt or innocence of the accused by prefixing a cross mark immediately in front of one of the above terms. Two-thirds of the total number of votes cast shall be required to decide the guilt or innocence of the accused. But one ballot shall be taken on this proposition.

Ordered.

Section 42· If the accused be found guilty the members shall then proceed to vote upon the punishment, which shall be that of expulsion, suspension or reprimand. Ordered.

Section 43· In voting upon the punishment to be inflicted the Secretary shall furnish the members slips of paper of uniform size, upon which shall be written the words "Expulsion," "Suspension" and "Reprimand." Each member shall then make a cross mark immediately in front of the word in which in his judgment is the correct punishment to be inflicted. A two-thirds vote shall be required to impose any one of the above punishments.

Ordered.

Section 44· The members shall then proceed to vote upon "Expulsion"; if it fails to receive a two-thirds vote a ballot shall then be taken upon "Suspension"; if this fails to receive a two-thirds vote the members shall then proceed by the same method to vote upon the several punishments until one of the punishments shall receive a two, thirds vote. After a verdict shall have been reached the accused and his counsel or his representative shall be recalled.

Ordered.

Section 45. If the accused desires to make an appeal to the Grand Council he shall give notice thereof, and within ten days thereafter file with the Secretary a written notice of the same.

Ordered.

Section 46. If the notice of appeal be given, the President then shall withhold &entence. If the action of the chapter be approved by the Grand Council, or in case the accused fails to fife his written notice of appeal within ten days, the President shall then at the next stated meeting formally pronounce the sentence. Ordered.

Section 47. In case of an appeal, a transcript of the minutes, testimony and other documents involved in the trial shall be furnished to the Grand Council at the expense of the accused.

Ordered.

Section 48. A member who has been expelled or suspended may apply for reia· statement or restoration only in the chapter from which he was expelled or suspended, but if said chapter has ceased to exist he shall be required to show what reparation be has. J?ade, if aJ?y, to right the wrong which he. was disciplined. In acting upon tbl petition for remstatement or restoratton a two-thJrds vote shall be required. Ordered.

ALUMNI CHAPTERS.

49· The Grand shall have authority to grant a charter as an alumm chapter to any ten members of the Fraternity representing not less than three upon the petttlo_n of such members. Such alumni chapters shall adopt a constitutiOn by-laws subject to the approval of the Grand Council.

Such alumm chapter shall have the right to send one representative to the Grand who shall be accorded the courtesy of the floor and or membership o11 commtttees , but shall have no vote. The expenses of such delegates shall not be paid by the Grand Conclave. Ordered.

Section so. These -By-L aws may be amended or repealed and additional By-Laws en.acted , at any Grand Conclave, the proposition therefor shall be susta in ed by twothtrds vote of all the representatives present, provided such changes shall take effect after the close of the Grand Conclave. Ordered.

Vote on all amendments except the one to do w ith insignia. Passed unanimously.

Move d by Pennsylvania, seconded by Wisconsin, that the Grand Council, through such committee as It may appoint, shall codif y the Constitution and By-Laws of the Acacia Fraternity regularly adopted. Carried.

Report of the Committee on Chapter Housing, delegate from Michigan, chairman.

To the Gran d Co nclave of Acacia Frat ernity:

We, the undersigned members of the Committ ee on Housing, respectfully submit the following report and recommendations:

The following is a general summary of the conditions of various chapters: Seven chapters own their own houses, five h ave plans on foot to purchase or build house s and eleven rent their present quarters. Columbi a , on account of prevailing conditions, already familiar to the Conclave, is the only chapter without a house.

We rec o mmend that wherever loca l conditions will permit that the Fraternity have their own tables at the chapter houses.

We feel that any of the chapters planning to build a chapter house should get into communication with the Grand Officers, and also inquire of the chapters that have recently built houses, in order that they may profit by their experien ce. We would further urge the admonition of our Acting Grand President that chapters planning on building houses make certain that they have a firm and substantial financial basis, that the plans are completed before the actual construction is started and that there be something besides enthusiasm behind the project.

We further recommend that all moneys collected or received from alumni should form the basis of a house building fund, in order that this may be used to provide a suitable lodge for each chapter. We would strongly advise that in no case this be used for the maintenance of the active chapter and current expenses. We would further recommend that the plan used successfully by several of the chapters that have recently built houses be adopted by those anticipating building. This plan in general is the pledging of one hundred dollars to a house fund by each and every initiate and alumnus of the chapter, payable in ten annual payments of ten dollars each. Many of these pledges can be collected in advance by arousing the proper spirit and collecting the ten payments at once. It is wise to either own the lot or have sufficient funds to make a substantial payment on a purchased property before beginning construction.

Chapters with no definite plans for the future would do well to confer with the delegates from Purdue, Wisconsin, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois or Michigan, in view of making provision for the house proposition, and to benefit by their experience.

Respectfully submitted, ]. A. WooDWARD (Michigan), Chr., C. W. HARRINGTON (Cornell), LUTHER WooD PARKER (Minnesota), Committee on Housing .

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•Acting G. P.: There is a suggestion that the report be received and placed on file and that the committee be continued until the end of the Conclave.

Nebraska: Do we understand from your suggestion that this report be printed in THE JouRNAL?

Acting G. P.: Yes, as a guidance, but not as a command. Moved by Illinois, seconded by California, that the report of this committee be received and placed on file. Carried. Committee on Alumni Chapters, delegate from Chicago, chairman.

Committee on Alumni Chapters submits the following report and recommendations :

1. That the formation and development of alumni associations should be encouraged wherever a sufficient number of Alumni Acacians are in residence to warrant definite organization.

2. That active chapters should urge their alumni to become identified with some alumni association.

J. That the Grand Council should make special efforts to keep in close touch with the officers of these alumni associations through correspondence and visits, and to give special attention to the formation and development of such associations.

4- That the Grand Council shall have power to grant each definitely organized association one representative to the Conclave, which representative shall be accorded the courtesy of the floor and membership on committees, but without a vote. Expenses not to be paid by Grand Conclave.

The committee does not think that the present condition of these associations warrants the granting of full vote of the representative in Conclave.

C. W. HILLS (Chicago), Chr., HERBERT A. BLOGG (Pmnsylvania), C. J. HEMPHILL (Washington). Committee on Housing.

Michigan: We would suggest that this report be called Alumni Chapters, and not Alumni Associations.

Acting G. P.: The report of this committee will be received and placecd on file.

Report of the Committee on THE JouRNAL, delegate from Leland Stanford, chairman.

Mr. Chairman:

Your Journal Committee wish to make the following report:

As stated in our report to the Conclave in session on June 25th, we urge that the editorship of THE JoURNAL be placed in the hands of a separate editor and four ass ociates.

The Conclave requested that we formulate our ideas into some tangible scheme which might prove more successful than the present method of editing THE JoURNAL.

We strongly advocate the featuring of alumni news, the different traditions and conditions that separate chapters have to contend with, the relationship between Acacia and the Masonic lodges of the different states.

We believe that the editor should be permitted to choose his associate that THE JoURNAL should point out the problems that will arise at the Conclave, and invite discussion of these problems.

We recommend that there be established a department to be known as ''Who'l Who in Acacia," that THE AcACIA JouRNAL shall become a news magazine the interests and activities in magazine style rather than in stated colmllnUlnicatioDI.

We suggest that the editor shall develop a system of correspondence with the chapters and alumni associations, who will furnish him with the kind of that will make it interesting to the Fraternity at large. It devolves upon the to get contributions from men who will help to make THE JoURNAL a live paper.

We advise that the editor selected should have the training that will enable to get out a real college magazine, that a sum be set aside equal in amount to

P.ro v id ed by th e b u dget las t ye ar , a n d th a t th e edi t o r be empowered to procure additi o n a l funds t h r oug h a dve r t is e m en t s a nd s u bsc r ip ti o n s . . TH E STATUS OF THE EDITOR .

We r ecomm e nd th a t the e d it o r be a mem be r of th e Gra n d Counc il and that th e Con s titution relatin g t o Grand O ffi cer s be r ev ised as fo ll ows:

A rticle III , Se cti o n r of th e old Co nstituti on ·to r ea d :

Th e Grand Offi cer s s hall co n s i st of th e G r an d Pre s ide n t, Gr and Vi ce-president, Grand Tr ea s ur e r , Gr a n d Secr et a r y a n d G r a nd Ed ito r, w h o s h a ll be elected at t he Grand Co ncl ave a lumni m e m be r s hip , s h a ll b e u ni ve r sity o r co ll ege graduates, s hall h o ld o ffi ce until th eir s u ccesso r s are elec te d a nd ins t a ll ed.

A rticl e I V, Secti o n r , t o r ead:

Th e Grand Co un ci l shall co n s ist o f the Grand Pr es ident, G r a n d Vice-pres ident , Gr a nd Tr eas ur e r , G r a nd Sec r e t a ry and Grand Edit o r.

Th a t an a dd i ti o n a l sect io n u nd e r A rticl e III b e mad e t o r ead :

Th e G rand E dit o r sh a ll se lec t th e a sso ciate ed it o r s a n d be h eld responsib le fo r the o f T H_E A CA CIA } OURN AL: Th e Gr a nd E d ito r sha ll rece i ve for pe rformin g th e a bove d uti es suc h comp e n sa t iO n as th e Gr a n d Co ncl ave may dete r mine. } As . G M ARSHALL (Stanford), Chr., L S DuxBURY (Harvard) , S . E. Co NYBEARE (Ame s ).

Gran d S ecr etary : I ha v e no objecti o n to the d a te s p r opose d for t h e public a ti o n of THE Jo u RNA L1 but it w ill be hard to ge t T HE J ouRNAL a n d minutes together b y Septemb e r 15.

Illinoi s : We object to the ch a pter letter s being le ft o ut. They a r e a valuable part of TH E JouR NA L. The summ e r life at th e ch ap ter h ou ses is also a valuable feature of Acacia and letter s should be w ritten by m en in the hou s e during the summer and sent to THE J ou RNA L.

Grand Secretar y : The publication o f T HE Jo u RNAL thi s ye ar h as been under contract. The work of the publi shers has be en sati s fa ctor y in eve r y way. The only trouble I find with them is that the y are t oo s low . Yo u mu st give them more than fifteen da y s to handle an is su e, perhap s thirt y da ys would be well .

A cting G. P. : The principal point is that the editor ship b e made a s eparate office from the Grand Secretar ys hip. One great ·difficult y in thi s matter is the financing o f such an office . The present JO URNA L f a lls down more in the matter of contributors than in an y o ther respect.

Harvard: Most of the members are ready for a change . THE Jo u RN AL has not progressed as it should. It is a source of dis s en sion , and ev erybody is ready to knock it. The members will not co-operate with T HE JoURNAL. The only logical step is to make a change . The system in the Greek letter fraternities is to have a chief editor and as sociate editors. This is the step we should take at this Conclave . The committee recommend the appointing of one editor and four associates. This raises the question of finances, and here we get into trouble. We do not know how much the next Conclave will cost, and so do not know how much money we shall have for THE JouRNAL. We cannot put much money into THE JouRNAL next year, and so must call upon a good Acacia man to give his services for this work. A large part of the work of the Grand Secretary is the editing of THE JouRNAL . If he is relieved of this work, there should be a reduction in his salary. The first step we want to take with THE JouRNAL is to make it a live paper. We must make it attractive so that the alumni will look for it, and then we can get the alumni to subscribe for it. We shall also be able to approach business houses for advertisements.

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Vlisconsin: The paper that is the most desirable, it seems to me , is the · one that has the most personals; and that simply means chapter letters .

Illinois: We should bring up the question of whether THE JouRNAL is paying or not.

Acting G. P.: Receipts from THE JouRNAL last year were $120.20 , and the expenses of printing were about $700.00. I question whether we could get any money out of the Fraternity paper. At the last Interfraternity Conference in New York there was a discussion as to whether fraternity magazines were paying. President Shepardson knew of no fraternity paper that had a large subscription list. In Chicago I found that no fraternity magazine had more than three or four pages of advertisements . It does not seem to me that we can finance THE JouRNAL out of THE JouRNAL.

Nebraska: The expense of the Conclave next year, if it goes to the coast, will be in the neighborhood of eight hundred or a thousand dollars more than this year. And this will mean that the expense of THE JouRNAL should not be increased; and this it would be if the office of the editor were made separate from that of the secretaryship.

Pennsylvania: Perhaps it would be a good thing to have the minutes published in pamphlet form. This would give us the information we need for the beginning of the year.

The delegate from Yale told of the experience a Greek-letter fraternity to which he belonged in his undergraduate days had gone through in this matter of separating THE JouRNAL from the Grand Secretaryship. Since this separation the paper has taken on new life and is an active feature of the fraternity

Acting G. P.: If we have a separate editor, what kind of a magazine is he to get out ?

Minnesota: That raises the question of what THE JouRNAL should stand for. Some of the chapters think of leaving out the chapter letters. Some of our men think that the articles on Masonry have nothing to do with Acacia. We are against changing the present system if we can't pay for it.

The question of getting contributors to THE JouRNAL was discussed at great length.

Michigan: We are concerned with the expense involved in this proposition.

Illinois: May this report not be referred back to THE JouRNAL Committee to devise some scheme and suggest some plan for the conduct of THE JouRNAL during the next year? May they not suggest the probable costs and the plan it will follow ? .

Vote as to separate editorship: Yes, 9; yes, contingent upon finances, 5; no, 10.

The acting Grand President directed the committee to show how an editorship might be devised; also a by-law under which the separate editor would work.

Report of the Committee on Song Book.

Brother Treleven, of Wisconsin, of the committe of the Grand Council to get out the song book, then spoke as follows :

Schultz, of Yale, is the of the committee; Brother Bussey, of Il!tnOJs, ts the other member. The commtttee started work a year ago last April oa the song book. We found much trouble in getting the responses we expected. We set upon the date of April 15th as the final date upon which contributions would be

received. . On this _date Brother Schultz arranged the book in form for publication and sent 1t to me m Texas. I kept the material for a week or more making what comments I could, and then sent it on to Brother Bussey. The b'ook was then returned to Brother Schultz at Yale. By this time it was impossible to get the book in time for distribution at the Conclave. But we have a song book which is ready to go to press at the present time. It is divided into two (1) General college songs; (2) Local chapter songs.

Policy adopted: Under no circumstances would any song of a general college character be inserted in the song book. There is no place in the Acacia Song Book for "Fair Harvard" or "On Wisconsin," or any other general college songs. There is still time for the inclusion of songs in this book, as it has not yet gone to press.

Report of the Committee on the Placing and Financing of the Next Conclave, delegate from Missouri, chairman. As no report was ready, the Grand President announced that the report would be received in the mormng.

Stanford: Our chapter has voted to spend two hundred dollars, and California has doubtless voted the same amount. Expenses after getting to California will be borne by the two California chapters. We think we ought to have the Conclave next year. It will help our men understand just what Acacia is.

California: We are interested in this Conclave. It has been talked over since the exposition has been planned. Stanford joins with us in asking for this Conclave, as do also the two Alumni Associations on the coast. There is a growing university iri Southern California, and there are many Masons there. We ought to let these people know just what Acacia stands for.

Washington: We also join with the California chapters in urging the · next Conclave to be held in California.

California: There will be no expenses incurred in California in the matter of housing and entertainment during the Conclave.

The report of the Committee on Resolutions, delegate from Illinois, chairman, was called for, but was not ready for presentation.

At 5·35 p.m., at the suggestion of the delegate from Wisconsin, a recess of five minutes was taken to give the Committee on Insignia time to get out their report. The meeting was called to order again at 5.40 p.m.

Report of the Committee on Insignia, delegate from Wisconsin, chairman.

Your Committee on Fraternity Insignia beg leave to make the following report: In the matter of a Fraternity coat of arms, we are, after careful consideration of the unanimous opinion, that the simple design selected by the Grand Conclave should continue to be the official coat of arms, and further that, regardless of the selection and approval of the Grand Council, we consider it the preferable design and commend it as the official coat of arms for the Acacia Fraternity.

A. E. MAcQuARRIE (Wisconsin), Chr.,

M. C. LYTLE (Manhattan)

F. P. WEAVER (Penn. State).

Under the heading of pin design we have no changes to sugl{est

The majority of those who appeared before the comm1ttee and advocated changes in the present pin were in the great majority of cases those who favored the present design if they could be assured that present vacant triangles were not an invitation to place therein letters or characters which they very strongly opposed.

We therefore call the attention of the Conclave to the fact that much uncertainty would be removed and much enet'IY COilSetved if the specifications for the pin design were made a part of the Constitution instead of the By-Laws.

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We further call the attention of the Conclave to the fact that in conformity with the resolution of the last Conclave a contract has been entered into and that hereafter all Acacia pins must be ordered through the Grand Secretary, paying eight dollars per pin.

A. E. MAcQuARRIE (Wisconsin), Chr., M. C. LYTLE (Manhattan), F. P. WEAVER (Penn. State).

Pennsylvania: We wish to call attention to one part of the action of the committee which hangs upon the minutes of the last Conclave. A coat of arms was then adopted as submitted by a member of the Pennsylvania chapter. We would ask that the report of the Committee on the Minutes of the Last Conclave be received before final action is taken upon the report of the Committee on Insignia.

Syracuse: Last year we had a committee on chapters, and that was a general clearing house for all these suggestions. I sat at the end of the table next to Brother Schultz when this proposition came up. The motion as made by me was to adopt the action of the Grand Council, and that was to adopt the coat of arms which they had selected. That motion, and I am quite definite in my recollection of this, was lost. A substitute motion was passed. That motion was to adopt a coat of arms prepared by Brother Mann, of Pennsylvania, after he had made some changes in the outside work. These changes were to be referred to the Grand Council. Brother Mann agreed to make the changes. The Grand Council was given power only to receive or reject it, and not to make any further suggestions as to changes. We went home with that sort of situation in mind. I feel that we have done Brother Mann an injustice in this affair. I hope we may come to some sort of decision by which this Conclave adopts the best coat of arms we can possibly get, and also that we will leave Brother Mann with the feeling that we have not intentionally nor maliciously nor wilfully been treading on his toes.

Acting G. P.: The Grand Council came to the conclusion that they were expected to revise the coat of arms submitted to them. Perhaps the Committee on Minutes may be able to establish just what the facts were, but I doubt this very much. Brother Mann is certainly a most valuable member of the Pennsylvania chapter, and I should long hesitate to do anything that would seem to do him an injustice. The coat of arms before us is the one adopted by the Grand Council in good faith.

Harvard: We should adopt officially the minutes of the last Conclave. This has never been done.

Pennsylvania: Brother Mann feels that the Grand Council acted in good fa1th. He simply wants the matter cleared up.

Acting G. P.: The committee moves the adoption of the coat of arm as given out by the Grand Council.

Vote: Yeas, 13; noes, 8; 3 not voting. .

Acting G. P.: As far as a resolution of this Conclave is concerned, this is a vote. But it is not a vote as to including the coat of arms in the by-law Motion by delegate from Minnesota, seconded by the delegate from California, that the meeting adjourn until 9 a. m., Friday. Carried. Meetinl adjourned at 6 p. m.

FRIDAY MORNING SESSION. June 26, 1914.

The meeting was called to order by Acting President Frazer at ,o'clock.

The roll call showed delegates from ev ery chapter present.

The Grand Secretary read telegrams from Brother C. R. Shaw, from San Francisco, and from Brother B. L. Shrader, of the Missouri Chapter, and Brother H. C. Pierce, of the Cornell and Ames Chapters.

The Acting Grand President called attention to the presence of visiting alumni: Brothers Barnes, of Cornell; Prakken, of Purdue; Hall, of Yale; Kirl, of Illinois, as a regular delegate from the Chicago Alumni Association, and Jenkins, of Harvard.

Report of the Committee on Audit, the delegate from Ohio State, chairman.

REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE.

The Auditing Committee respectfully submits the following report:

This report is incomplete in that several chapters did not hand in a report of moneys sent into the Grand Secretary.

This committee herewith reports that they have examined the books carefully , and that the same are true statements, to the best of their belief, of all moneys received and expended.

This committee recommends to the Conclave the adoption of the budget as proposed by the Grand Council.

Respectfully submitted, C. G. EvANS (Ohio State Chapter), Chr. D. F. GILBERT (Purdue Chapter), LELAND F. DuxBURY (Harvard Chapter).

Report of the Committee on Expenses of Delegates, delegate from Columbia, chairman. A temporary report was read.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXPENSES OF DELEGATES TO CONCLAVE AT ANN ARBOR, MICH., JUNE 24-26.

Beth

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G. Hansell

G. Evans

S. Duxbury

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Report of the Song Book Committee was received and placed on file.

REPORT OF SONG BOOK COMMITTEE.

Our report is only a continuation of that made by Brother Treleven yesterday. In addition we wish to say that the book wilt be ready for the publisher by October Ist and for distribution by Christmas vacation of the coming school year.

We wish to present the following recommendations :

1. The Song Book be placed in the hands of the Grand Council, for printing and distribution

2. It shall be considered the duty of every active man to secure a copy of his own. One copy secured by each chapter for use in the house should not be considered enough.

3· Brother Schultz should receive a vote of thanks for the zealous and effective work he has done in connection with the compilation of each book.

M. M. VANCE (Yale), Chr.,

E. W. HILLS (Chicago), RALPH W. JoRDAN (Ohio State).

Motion for vote of thanks to the chairman of this committee . Ordered.

Report of the Committee on Masonic Relations. Report received and placed on file.

REPORT ON MASONIC RELATIONS.

We, the Committee on Masonic Relations, beg to submit the following report:

1. I recommend that the Acacia Fraternity heartily endorse the movement begun by the Iowa Grand Lodge to form a National Society for Masonic Research, and further recommend that each chapter support the movement by subscribing to the magazine to be published under the direction of the Iowa Grand Lodge Committee on Masonic Research, the same to become a part of the chapter files.

2. We recommend that the several chapters make use ot the opportunity afforded by the aforesaid movement at Iowa, and all similar movements that may be instituted in other jurisdictions.

3. We recommend the adoption of the following resolution: "That the Acacia Fraternity assembled in Grand Conclave extend a vote of thanks and appreciation to Grand Secretary Newton R. Parvin, of the Iowa Grand Lodge, for the many courtesies shown in connection with his work as librarian of the Iowa Masonic Library, in preserving records and historical data of the Fraternity, and in the aid and information given by him to carious chapters along Masonic lines." Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Grand Secretary Parvin and also that it be placed upon the records of the Conclave.

4 · We also recommend that the individual chapters of the Acacia Fraternity continue to develop and maintain a cordial relationship with the several Masonic bodies having jurisdiction in their respective states.

Be it further resolved : That the respective chapters be uged to invite speakers and lecturers of Masonic philosophy to visit their chapter and lecture before them: That this Conclave appreciates the great work of Brother Roscoe Pound, and that he be especially urged to appear before as many chapters as his time will permit.

]OHN H. HowARD (Iowa), Chr. Ross H. CLAYTON (Kansas), C. K. MoRSE (Nebraska), S. E CoNYBEARE (Iowa State).

Acting President Frazer spoke of the work Brother Parvin has done for Acacia; of Brother Newton; of Brother Schoonover; and of Brother Pound, of the Harvard Chapter:

All four sections of this report were voted upon and unanimously carried.

Report of the Grand Treasurer was received.

Report on the minutes of the last Conclave was called for. Brother McCoy, of Michigan, chairman, being absent, Brother Jenkins, of Harvard, read the report.

It was moved by the delegate from Minnesota, seconded by the delegate - from Yale, that this report be spread upon the minutes. Carried.

Acting G. P.: The members of this committee disagreed as to what had been decided upon by the last Grand Conclave in regard to the coat of arms.

Brother Jenkins: The opinion of the committee was that some coat of arms was referred to the Grand Council with authority to alter. Which one that was we are unable to agree upon.

Acting G. P . : . You will agree that there was a coat of arms referred to the Grand Council with authority to alter?

Brother Jenkins : Yes.

Acting G. P.: Were the Council within their rights to have both coats of arms before them and alter either or adopt a new one?

Brother Jenkins : This question was not discussed by the committee; but I was of the opinion that they could not adopt a coat of arms not sented to them by the Grand Conclave.

Pennsylvania: There is no doubt in the mind of our chapter that the Council acted as they thought was right. It might clear up matters if a transcript was read from the stenographer's report dealing with the motion in regard to the coat of arms. tary.

Acting G. P.: The committee will please read this transcript.

Brother Jenkins, for the committee, then complied with this request. The report of the Grand Council was presented by the Grand

REPORT OF GRAND COUNCIL.

Brothers:

We, the members of the Grand Council submit the following report and recommendations:

1. A meeting of the Grand Council was held at Manhattan last December. The minutes of this meeting may be found in the February JouRNAL. We trust that the suggestions and · recommendations noted in the minutes of the meeting may have your consideration.

2. The Grand President appointed three delegates to the Interfraternity Conference, Brothers William Homan, George E. Frazer, Grand Vice-president and Brother ]. L. Stenquist. Brother Homan was not able to be present.

3. The vote upon the proposed constitutional amendments resulted as follows:

(a) To amend Section 5 of Article IV. Votes for, 22; against, I ; not voting, I. Amendment adopted.

(b) To amend Section 6 of Article IV. Votes for, 2I ; against, 2; not voting, I. Amendment adopted.

(c) To amend Section 6 of Article VI.

Votes for, 2I; against, I; not voting, 2. Amendment adopted.

The following budget is recommended.

Respectfully submitted, Gro. E. FRAZER, Grand Vice-president, R. CECIL FAY, Grand Treasurer, H. E. KILMER, Grand Secretary.

The budget was referred to the Auditing Committee.

Acting G. P.: The Budget estimates receipts of eight thousand dollars and disbursements of six thousand seven hundred dollars, approximately, The cash balance at the end of this year will be about sixteen hundred dollars. We are using some of this balance on the proposed Conclave for next year, and the new seven hundred dollars revenue from pins. There ought to be a small cash balance of not less than fifteen hundred dollars to protect ourselves against an emergency. If we don't have this, the Grand Officers and Alumni Officers will have to go into their pockets to meet such an emergency. The Michigan and Illinois Chapters and other chapters are going into obligations which have a grave element of danger in them.

The report of the Grand Council was received and placed on file. The Budget provisions were referred to the Auditing Committee, report to be made by them before the Conclave closes. . Continuation of the report of the Committee on Constitution and ByLaws, delegate from Syracuse, chairman.

By-Laws.

Section 28. The official coat of arms of the Acacia Fraternity shall be composed of a crest, shield, ribbon and motto. The crest shall be that in present use and the shield shall consist of a field in gold bearing fess and two bentlets in black, surmounted by three triangles in gold. The ribbon shall be in blue, emblematical of the Blue Lodge, and the motto "Human Service" inscribed in Greek.

The minority report suggested the adoption of the present coat of arms, subtituting "Human Service" printed in Old English instead of the equivalent Greek.

Columbia: We should prefer to vote on accepting this shield as one point, and then to changing the inscription from Greek to Old English.

Acting G. P.: Both points are included in the recommendation of the committee.

Columbia moved, seconded by Ames, that the coat of arms with the inscription in Greek be adopted.

Pennsylvania: It is not agreeable to some of us that this coat of arms can be acted upon. The minutes should be cleared up first ·before action can be taken.

Acting G. P.: The question of the coat of arms is a proposed new bylaw and takes precedence over all resolutions.

Pennsylvania: The words of the by-law are not clear.

Minnesota arose to a point of order. There is an amendment before the house. This should be settled before we take any other action.

Wisconsin: Wh y not compromise by puttin g th e wo rd s in La t in?

Acting G . P. : Two prec edent s should guide u s h e r e. The Greek motto is in keeping with the Greek de s ign . The Old English is in k eep in g with the expre s sed traditions of this Fraternity a s to writing the wo rd Acacia Eith er one of the se is fairly con sis tent . The Latin seems to me to be inco n sis t en t. Doe s the delegate from W isconsin w ish to make a subst itute mo tion?

Wisconsin: I move my sugge stion a s a substitute m otion.

Acting G. P . : Columbia did not feel that the Old English w as quite a s dignified or fitting as perhaps the Greek in scription . There is an elem en t of secrecy about the coat of arms, and it would be more fitting to lea v e th e Greek letters on.

Grand Secretary: I think the Greek or Latin would be good , but I do not like the idea of Old English.

Nebraska: Before coming to the Conclav e we had an important m eeting. There was a good representation of our active men and a g ood man y of our alumni present. This is a point ver y near to their heart s. They instructed their delegate to try to get the Greek off the coat of arm s . It seems foolish to have words there that not one in ten can interpret. In N ebra ska we feel that there should be a coat of arms . If the inscription we r e in L a tin, nearly every one of our men could interpret it; also if it w ere in Old Engli sh , but not if it were in Greek or Yiddish. Some of our mo s t enthu s iastic . alumni were against leaving the Greek letters on the coat of arm s.

Ames : Our men are mainly in the agricultural school, and wo uld not be able to interpret these Greek letters. But if we have a co a t o f arm s which smacks of English times, let us have the thing entirely in keeping with it.

Minnesota: The sentiment in Minnesota is opposed to that in N ebraska. Members of the Alumni Association requested me to say to the Concla v e that the Greek motto looked all right to them; and some w ent so far as to say, why not put letters on it in Greek. Either put it on in English , in Greek, or not at all.

Illinois : Why not use some other language as a compromise?

Penn. State: We call for a vote.

Chicago seconded this.

Acting G. P.: Vote will be for substituting Greek in the recommendation of the committee. The amendment will leave the coat of arms as at present.

Vote: Yeas , 13; noes, r r. Result: Amendment is adopted by a majority vote.

Nebraska: I am sorry that the! Conclave has voted as it has. The N ebraska alumni will not now help us out in the matter of building a house.

Wisconsin: No state has the well organized opposition to Greek-letter fraternities as exists in Wisconsin. If I thought for a moment that the placing of Greek letters on this coat of arms was to result in the giving to the opposition of a talking point, I would oppose it. But I do not think that the men that are to meet that question are to be such as will be so arbitrary or so radical as to say that some Greek letters on the coat of arms will make Acacia a Greek-letter fraternity.

Michigan: We think the Conclave should take cognizance of the fact that we are spending much time and money in this matter of adoption of a coat of arms. To have the Greek letters on the coat of arms would strengthen Acacia. We favor the adoption of such a coat of arms.

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Syracuse: We should feel that we are representing not solely our chapters, but representing the National Fraternity. We are here to look to the future. Although I preferred another coat of arms, I am now standing for the one presented. I think the time is ripe for us at this time to dispose of this matter and to dispose of it finally, so that we can go home from here and say to our people that we have a coat of arms, and say not only to our people, but to all the people in the fraternity world, that we have a coat of arms. We shall not all be pleased, of course, for this would be impossible. As chairman of the committee, I call for the question.

Pennsylvania, seconded by Kansas, asked that the motion of the committee be tabled.

Vote: Yeas, 9; noes, 14. Result: Debate is closed.

Vote on the report: Yeas, r7; noes, 7· Result: The by-law is adopted.

The chairman of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws then continued to read his report. ·

Section 49. The Grand Council shall have authority to grant a charter as an alumni chapter to any ten alumni members of the Fraternity representing not less than three chapters, upon the petition of such members. Such alumni chapters shall adopt a constitution and by-laws subject to the approval of the Grand Council.

Such alumni chapter shall have the right to send one representative to the Grand Conclave, who shall be accorded the courtesy of the floor and of membership on committees, but shall have no vote. The expenses of such delegat es shall not be pa id by the Grand Conclave. ·

Chicago Alumni Association: Three chapters to be represented sufficient, and ten members will make a good alumni chapter. The alumm delegate should not necessarily have a vote. He should be free to speak at any time during the meeting. I think the Conclave should pay one-half of the expenses of such delegate.

California: The San Francisco Alumni Association appointed Marshall and I to express the sentiment of our Alumni Association on this matter. They did not go so far as to say that the Conclave should pay the expense s of the delegate. If they send a delegate, they will pay his expenses.

Yale Alumni: This is a move in the right direction. The alumni should be represented at the national gathering. The alumni delegates are in a better position to pay their own expenses than the National Body. If the member cannot pay his own expenses, the association which he represents should do so.

Columbia: In New York City there has been an Alumni Association which has been very successful. We must stick close to our alumni and have them represented at the Conclave. We heartily endorse any effort tending this way.

Acting G. P.:

Brother Kirk's suggestion is a good one, if we can change the by-laws to include a per capita tax. Otherwise we should not allow them one half of their expenses.

Brother Kirk: · It has cost me thirty dollars to be here for these two days, regardless of certain business matters which I left absolutely loose. I represent the Chicago Alumni Chapter. It would help matters if our Grand Conclave would do something to help bring our alumni here in other way than to act in an advisory capacity.

Columbia, seconded by Minnesota, moved that the recommendation tabled for further debate.

Vote: Unanimous.

Brother Kirk: I have made one suggestion that I do not believe has been fully discussed As a representative, I have no vote and have no right to bring this matter before you . I do not complain of the action of the Conclav_e. But in my capacity as a sort of an advisor, I shall have to go home feehng that I have not been able to do much work. I think that our alumni representatives should feel that they have accomplished something by being here.

Acting G. P.: When the committees were made out, the Acting Grand President exceeded his authority by putting on them an alumnus who happened to be in the room at the time. If an alumnus comes in later in the session, he cannot, of course, be put on a committee very well.

Report of the Committee on THE JouRNAL OF AcACIA, delegate from Stanford, chairman.

(See report of Committee on Journal, page 62, as adopted.)

Brother Treleven: I receive THE JouRNAL regularly, and have always been much interested in it. I do not agree with the people who say that THE JouRNAL is a dismal failure. I look forward with great anticipation to the approach of THE JouRNAL. I should be very sorry to see the first issue of THE JouRNAL contain only the minutes of the Conclave, and leave the news to the other two issues. I have formed no ideas a s to the editorship of THE JouRNAL.

Brother Barnes of Cornell: I am an active member of Cornell. I think THE JouRNAL should be kept up and all interest possible should be shown in it by tl].e members, both active and alumni:

Brother Hall of Yale: I have not formulated any ideas as to the disposition of THE JouRNAL. I believe the present JouRNAL is a long ways from being a failure. We don't appreciate all the work that is being done on THE JouRNAL by our Grand Secretary. Brother Kilmer's efforts in aiding THE JouRNAL certainly commend themselves to the judicious. It has been an exceedingly difficult thing to do. We can't have a good JouRNAL unle ss all the brothers do their share The chapter editors have been somewhat remiss in their contributions. THE JouRNAL should be kept a live thing, which the members can keep their interest up in. The average alumnus is ·not interested in biographical sketches. We want more articles.

Brother Jenkins of Harvard: I have nothing to add more than what I said in the Conclave last year and what appeared over my name in THE JouRNAL this past year.

Chairman Lott of the Committee on Constitution and By-Law s, upon request of the Acting Grand President, read the minutes of the last Conclave on the question of the AcACIA JouRNAL.

Acting G. P.: A debate at this time will not be valuable, as we cannot finish it this morning.

It was moved by Ohio State, and seconded by Stanford, that the meeting adjourn until two o'clock. Carried. Meeting adjourned at noon.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

June 26, 19I4.

SESSION.

The meeting was called to order at 2.25 p. m. by Acting Grand President Frazer.

Brother Hill, of the Michigan Chapter, the first Grand Secretary of the Acacia Fraternity, was introduced by Acting Grand President Frazer.

Acting G. P.: Is there a desire to discuss the report of the Committee on THE JouRNAL further?

Stanford: The committee believes that there will be little more expense in running THE JouRNAL in the proposed way than in the old way. We have men here who would do the necessary work for little or no compensation. Out of the three thousand men in Acacia, we think we can find the men to do this work in the way we want it done.

Michigan: THE JoURNAL is a little staid and formal, and it has not the breeziness necessary for a fraternity journel. Let us have a column on athletics, and show what each chapter is doing along this line of activity; also student government-show how many men you have on this Council and what it means; show what part your men are playing in campus activities. We object to a separate editor. If we have our Grand Secretary in Missouri, and our Grand Editor at some other point, much time is going to be lost in communicating with these men. If we had the Secretary and the Grand Editor at place it would be a different proposition. Unless we can find a man who would be willing to take the Grand Editorship for nothing, we do not believe that this proposition should go through.

The chairman of the committee moved for a roll call.

Acting G. P.: This resolution favors the office of a Grand Editor. It is not a by-law, but will have to be followed by a by-law at the end of the session. If carried, this resolution will be in force next year.

Washington: California evidently has a man in mind who is willing to take upon himself the burden of this work. Let us hear from the representative from California.

· Acting G. P.: Personalities must be left out of this discussion. Vote: Yeas, 16; noes, 8. Result: Report of the committee is adopted.

Acting G. P.: The Committee on Constitution and By-Laws will please go into session and present a by-law, and, if they think best, a constitutional amendment.

Report of the Committee on Uniform Accounting System, delegate from :9enn. State, chairman.

To the Acacia Fraternity in Ninth Amwal Conclave Assembled:

We the undersigned, Committee on Uniform Accounting System, beg leave to report that the general concensus of opinion is that the system is too complicated and requires too much time. That in many chapters the best stewards cannot be induced to serve as stewards because of the time required to keep this system of books. The plea for the educational value of the system does not meet with popular approval. ·The committee believes that the Fraternity as a whole wants a uniform accountinr system, but as simple as is consistent with efficiency. We, therefore, recommend that the educational idea be discarded as not meeting with the approval of the Fraternity, and the system simplified as much as can be done without impairing its efficiency. We append criticisms by the California and Stanford Chapters.

(Signed) F. P. WEAVER, (Penn. State), Cbr,. C. K. MoRSE (Nebraska), D. F. GILBERT (Purdue), Committ,,

UNIFORM ACCOUNTING AT STANFORD.

r. At Stanford there is a system of bookkeeping required of all fraternities sororities by the university. If we adopted the uniform system we would have keep two sets of books.

2. We believe the uniform system is a cost system and not a system of bookkeeping. We do not consider it necessary to work out the cost of each room. To divide up, light for example, according to amount used in each room is an unnecessary detail, and requires more time than we can give to it.

CRITICISM OF ACCOUNTING SYSTEM.

No safe method of keeping true account of transactions. Treasurer and steward must keep the receipted bills, uncanceled checks and duplicate receipts and stubs, which are the real books that tell what transactions are and it is unsafe to keep so many loose leaves and accumulated records. System works out fine as a report of the moneys handled.

No dates in system. Only way to get them is to go back to receipted stubs and checks. Not room enough for more than two payments on one assessment. There should be a ledger account kept in book form.

HARRY G. HANSELL, California

Ohio State : I should like to make a gard to this accounting system.

Chapter.

report of local conditions in re-

Penn. State : Couldn't all these criticisms be handed in and filed with the report?

Acting G. P.: This was my idea, so that the Grand Council could revise the system intelligently.

Continuation of the report of the Committee on Constitution and ByLaws.

By-Laws.

Section 31. The official emblem of this Fraternity shall be a pin in the shape of a right angle triangle of the first quadrant, whose sides shall be proportionately, three, four and five, side three being the base. The bounds of this triangle shall be studded with crown set with pearls, with either crown set pearls or garnets in the corners; within this triangle shall be three smaller triangles against a black enameled background; with such other specifications as the Grand Council may have to determine in entering the contract with the official jeweler.

Michigan : Will it still be possible, under this new specification, to have the option as to the jewels in the corner of the pin?

Acting G; P.: Option as t9 pearls or garnets only. Specifications in the contract give this option, and they are given in this by-law.

Minnesota: We object to voting without this specification being put in the by-laws.

Acting G. P.: Let the committee insert the specifications in the bylaw before we vote on it.

Minnesota: We must remember that when we adopt this pin there are three thousand Acacians who have pins of different stones. Are the pins that are already made official?

Acting G. P.: Yes. They were official when adopted, and must continue to be official. •

The chairman of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws then read the complete section of the by-laws.

Ames: Has the by-law been carried which requires each chapter to give an initiate a new pin?

CorneD (and others) : No.

Vote: Unanimous.

Section 32. Each chapter shall provide each of its active members with an official emblem at the time of his initiation.

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Stanford: Vie object to this by-law, on the ground that it is a burden on the chapter. We have no trouble in getting our men to buy pins.

Harvard: We oppose requiring a pin in the initiation fee, due to the fact that when you go to a man and ask him to enter the Fraternity the big question is finances. If y ou put the pin in as this by-law proposes, you have necessarily got to raise your initiation fee or cut down the amount you get for your own finances. We have our initiation fee at such a point that our finances work out very well and still we have not put our initiation fee to such a prohibitory point that it scares a man out. The question of pin should be left to each Acacia man. It should not be forced upon an initiate.

Chairman Lott: This by-la w was introduced through the suggestion of our Grand Treasurer, who thought the men were lax in wearing the Fraternity jewel.

Pennsylvania: We feel that every man should wear the emblem, but we agree with Harvard in that it is a hard ship to buy the pin at once We feel that an initiate should be given a certain time , sa y thirty days , in which to buy his pin. Some of our men at the time of initiation could not pay for the pin.

Vote: Yeas, 7; noes, 17. Result: Section is lost.

Penn. State: The Committee on Insignia has a recommendation which is still before the Conclave .

Acting G. P.: All recommendations of the Committee on Insignia were adopted without opposition.

The chairman of this committee gave the gist of his report. I

Chicago: We are opposed to having the price set at eight dollars. If the Grand Council can let the contract for the pin we have been getting for six dollars, we are opposed to having the two dollar rake-orr to the National Chapter. The price an initiate pays should be somewhere near the contract price. We move to re-consider this motion of accepting the report of the committee.

Minnesota seconded this motion.

Minnesota: If the Conclave sees fit to provide those funds, it is all right. But I object to the procedure. We don't have to tell our new men that the cost is only six dollars, but they will find it out in the end. We would rather pay seven dollars to the National Council than a two dollar rake-off on a pin. That is the way we look at it.

Chicago : We are strongly in favor of the funds of the Grand Fraternity coming from one source, our dues, and not from several sources. It is easier for us to be able to pay one bill of a certain sum than two or three amounts totaling the same sum. I am opposed to mixing our sources of revenue. Chicago wishes to voice the sentiment of Minnesota in this respect.

Acting G. P.: It has been in the mind of the Grand Council of making this a revenue for the Grand Conclave.

Vote on re-considering this section: Yeas, 3; noes, 21. Result: motion lost.

Minnesota: Does any other fraternity use this method?

Acting G. P.: Brother Shepardson first put forth this idea. We ba a per capita tax of five dollars per member. This is about as high as we stand. Grand President Shepardson said that if the Grand Officers C01*II save money in purchasing pins, that this would help out our fund. In tiM!OJO• there is no difference, but in practice there is.

Grand Secretary : Through the arrangement entered into by the Grand Council and sanctioned by the Conclave, there was a saving of two dollars to the chapter in purchasing this pin. In view of this saving we thought we could add two dollars to the grand body and the members not feel it.

Penn. State: At the last Conclave we were told that most of the Greekletter fraternities had contracts of this sort.

Acting G. P.: I would not say that most of the Greek-letter fraternities do this, but a great many of them do.

Chicago : Is there a limit on the Grand Council ?

Acting G. P.: The report was for eight dollars.

Report of the Committee on the Place and Financing of the 1915 Conclave.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE 1915 CONCLAVE.

Your Committee on the 1915 Conclave begs leave to submit the foUowing as its report:

I. That the Conclave be held in San Francisco in September, the date to be selected by the Grand Council.

2. As to expense, this committee is · of the opinion after a careful tabulation of estimated railroad rates, sleeping car, dining car and parlor car that the cost will be at least $2500 . In arriving at this we have estimated that the expenses additional to the railroad rate would be at least fifty per cent.

We would call the attention of the Conclave to the fact that by co-operation of the various chapters with the Grand Council in the matter of time of departure, reservation of sleeping car and other accommodations would greatly reduce the individual rate.

3. The California and Stanford chapters have agreed that the Grand Council will not be called upon to bear any expense in the way of local entertainment.

4· The committee wishes to go on record as opposing any change in the ByLaws or in establishing any precedent by limiting the expenses of delegates to railroad fare alone, but we would, in view of the great expense to which the Fraternity will be subjected, consider it worthy of commendation if chapters find themselves so situated as to materially reduce the burden that will be placed upon the National Fraternity.

The committee received an invitation from the Purdue chapter for the 1915 Conclave, but such invitation was withdrawn in favor of the California chapters, with a cordial invitation for the Conclave to meet in Purdue in 1916.

Respectfully submitted,

N. E. FITZGERALD (Missouri), Chr., A. E. MAcQuARRIE ( Wisconsitl), J. L. STENQUIST (Columbia).

Minnesota: Before I left, the active committee of the Alumni Association asked me to extend a very cordial invitation to the Conclave to meet in Minnesota in 1916. The alumni, the active chapter, and the University of Minnesota will show you as good a time as any place in the United States.

Harvard: May I supplement the report of the committee by extending the invitation of the Harvard chapter to meet in Cambridge in 1916? We regretted the failure of the Conclave to meet with us two years ago. We still want to have the Conclave with us. We feel that we are a little different in Cambridge from the other chapters, a difference which is hardly known to the Conclave in general, and the way to make the chapters acquainted with Harvard is to have the Conclave in Cambridge.

Michigan: Some of our alumni favor the plan of having the Conclave on the coast, in order to revive the interest there.

Acting G. P. : We recommend that these invitations be considered by the Conclave next year.

Vote on accepting the report of the committee was unanimous.

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California: We wish to thank the Conclave for its action in deciding upon San Francisco as the meeting place of the next Conclave .

Acting G. P.: The report of the Committee on Expenses of Delegates will be received and placed on file.

Continuation of the report of the Committee on Constitution and ByLaws.

Constitution. Article IV. Section I.

The committee recommended that the words "and Grand Editor" be added at the end of the paragraph, so that the section as amended will read as follows:

"The Grand Council shall consist of the Grand President, Grand Vicepresident, Grand Treasurer, Grand Secretary and Grand Editor."

Harvard: We object to the phrase Grand Editor. Why not say Editor of THE JouRNAL?

Chairman of the Committee: We were following the report of the committee that has had THE JouRNAL question in charge. We followed what we thought was the custQ111 of the other fraternity journals.

Vote: Unanimous.

Acting G. P.: The amendment will be adopted and referred to the chapters for ratification.

Acting G. P.: We should adopt a temporary resolution by which this editor can work during the year.

Constitution. Article V. Section I.

Add the words "and Grand Editor" in line three of this section, after the word "Secretary" so that the section amended will read as follows:

Section 1. "The Grand Officers shall consist of Grand President, Grand Vicepresident, Grand Treasurer, Grand Secretary and Grand Editor, who shall be elected at the Grand Conclave from the alumni membership and shall be university or college graduates, and hold office until their successors are elected and installed."

Acting G. P.: The vote is unanimous. The two sections having received the necessary two-thirds vote, will be referred to the chapters for ratitication.

Acting G. P.: The Auditing Committee recommends that the Budget as presented by the Grand Council be adopted. Carried.

Report of the Committee on Resolutions, delegate from Illinois, chairman.

REPORT OF RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE.

Be it resolved by the Ninth Conclave of the Acacia Fraternity, Ann Arbor, Michigan:

r. That we express our appreciation of the successful manner in which Michl.. chapter has entertained the delegates and provided for the success of this chive.

2. That the Fraternity be prompt in showing its appreciation of the work of members in Masonic research, and instruction in Masonic history and traditioa, that this be encouraged in every way.

3· That the Grand Officers make use of the fireproof repository provided National Fraternity by the Michigan chapter.

4- That the Grand Council provide an Acacia Register to be placed at a place at the Panama Exposition to be held at San Francisco, Cal., in 1915.

s. That we hereby express our appreciation of the efforts of the membert Grand Council and the Harvard Chapter in securing competent stenographic for the reporting of the minutes of this Conclave.

6. That we express our appreciation of the untiring efforts of the omlCelrt J Grand Council during the past year.

7. Th at we express our appreciation of the work of Brothers Fay and \Vi! in preparing a draft of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Fraternity, including new laws .

8. That it is the sentiment of this Conclave that Past Grand Officers be accon the cou rt esy of the floor of Grand Conclave, and urged to attend future Conclaves.

Resoltttion Com mit tee, CASSIDY (Illinois), Chr. VANC E (Yale).

. Motion made .b y M inne sota, seconded by Michigan, that the report be ce1 ved by a standmg vote. Carried.

NEw BusiNEss.

Pennsylvania: We move that the Grand Council be empowered to hi made and sent to Newton R. Parvin, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lo1 of Iowa, an emblazoned copy of our official coat of arms, made on skin parchment, at the discretion of the Grand Council. Seconded by Stanfc Carried.

Wisconsin introduced a resolution to the effect that Dr. W. J. Mars be made the First Grand Honorary President of the Acacia Fraternity.

Acting G. P.: This motion is out of order, unless it is to be in the f< of an amendment to the constitution. A ll officers are prescribed in the o stitution.

Wisconsin moved an amendment to the constitution to allow this r lution to become effective.

Grand Treasurer Fay took the chair, at the request of the Acting Gr President.

Grand Vice-president: This is an honor which should be paid B sincerely question the advisibility of creating an office which will be from time to time in the Acacia Fraternity. I realize that this resoluti well intended. But I feel that it will result in the coming years of jealo among the different chapters in trying to honor the man who has he! them most.

Wisconsin: It is not the intention to pay tribute to the founde rr Michigan Chapter, nor of any particular chapter. The idea is to pay ting tribute to the founder of the whole National Acacia Fraternity.

Acting G. P.: This matter should be referred to the Committe Constitution and By-Laws. We must first create this office as a cons tional matter, and then we can make the election when we come to the tion of officers. This is provided for in the constitution.

Wisconsin moved, seconded by Stanford, that the constitution amended, creating the office of First Honorary President of the Acacia ternity.

Penn. State: It is impossible to carry out the intention that is in minds of the makers of this resolution, as we cannot create the office at Conclave and cannot fill it, as it is a constitutional matter and must go fore the chapters before it is ratified.

Acting G. P.: We can adopt a resolution creating an office.

Wisconsin: The only object is to get some definite plan started, so we can show appreciation where appreciation is due.

Chicago : Just what is the real difference between creating the offi the First Grand Honorary President, and making the specification in the man's name? Is there a doubt in the minds of our men that Dr. Mar was not the first President?

Acting G. P.: Yes, he was not This is a matter of record. Pennsylvania: Will it clear things up if the addition were made to this of "Firs t and Only Honorary Grand President"? It could then be held but once.

Cornell: We favor leaving out the word "first." The idea seems to be to honor Dr. Marshall only. We would suggest that he be called "Honora ry Grand President."

Acting G. P.: We have a list of founders-not one , but about fourteen. Thi s list is published in many places. The honor has already been paid which you seek to confer. But I have no ' objection to receiving an amendment to create the office of Honorary Grand President. Nothing which this Conclave does can bind the next Conclave in filling this office. If they please they can elect some other person to this office.

Stanford: What were Dr. Marshall's activities in the founding of Acacia Fraternity?

Acting G. P.: I cannot set any distinctions between the men who acted in Acacia Fraternity matters during the past ten years.

At the request of the Acting Grand President, the delegate from Syra. cuse read a short account of the founding of the Acacia Fraternity.

Syracuse: Can we not show our appreciation of Dr. Marshall's services to Acacia in a way different from adopting the resolution offered by Wisconsin? This brother deserves all that Acacia can give him, and more. He deserves all that this Conclave can give him, and more. But when we seek to put these sentiments of our hearts into words, then we are taking up a work which we can do but poorly. Would it not be better to frame these thoughts and sentiments into a resolution, in the best way we can, and leave it here on the pages of our JouRNAL and minutes? If we can frame such a re so lution, I should most heartily support it.

Nebraska: This thing is most unfortunate. The best way we can pay our respects or love is by paying them silently and every day of our lives . I move that the motion be laid on the table.

Brother Hill: None of you can appreciate the loyalty that Brothe¥ Marshall gave to this Fraternity, the sacrifice he made during the early years of our organization. There is not one of the older members of Aleph who is not willing and glad to do everything in his power to give Brother Marshall the honor that this organization can extend to him. Had circumstances been different, you may rest assured that Brother Marshall's activities in the organization of Acacia and in the work of his chapter would undoubtedly have made him one of your National Officers following the first Grand Conclave. This is not the first Conclave that has attempted to honor the work of Brother Marshall. The earliest Conclaves have always recognized his work, and they have striven in various ways and at various times to distinguish Brother Marshall for the efforts he exerted and for the work he accomplished for Acacia. Brother Marshall's work antedates that of any member of the organization, for he did a great deal of work in the University of Michigan Masonic Club, a good deal of which was ground work which Acacia u sed in establishing its chapter here. Past Conclaves have attempted to bind future Conclaves to some specific act. That can only be done by the sentiment of the brothers of the chapters at large. I hope that this Conclave can and will see some way of accomplishing the object pointed out in this resolution.

None. Always .

N o. Yes

No. Yes .

Yes. Yes.

Ye s. Ye s.

No. No.

No . Yes.

No. Yes.

16.00 No. No.

14.00 None. Not always. 30.00 10.00 Yes. Yes. 25.00 7.00 Yes. No and Yes. 25.00 Nat'!. No. Not ordinarily. 25.00 2.00 No. Yes. 20.00 Yes. Yes. 15.00 18.00 Yes. Yes.

Yes.

No. Yes.

Owned Rented. Rented. Rented. Rented. Rented. Rented . Being built Rented. Owned. Owned. Rented. Owned. Owned. Rented. Rented. None. Rented. Rented Rented. Rented. Rented. Owned. Rented.

ACACIA FRATERNITY DATA FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 1913-1914.

ACACIA FRATERNITY DATA FOR ACADEMIC YEAR

YEAR 1913-1914.

Wisconsin: ·We all want to honor Brother Iarshall in a fitting way, and the only objection seems to be the exact form . I would therefore move that the resolution be left to the Committee on Resolutions , to report back. This substitute motion was seconded by Syracuse. Accepted. It was moved by Nebraska, seconded by Syracuse , that the Grand Council be authorized to secure suitable photographs of Brother fars hall, and have them autographed and distributed to each of the several chapters. Rising vote was suggested.

Acting G. P.: The substitute motion from Wisconsin is before us.

Motion lost.

Motion of the brother from Nebraska, seconded by Syracuse , is before

· Pennsylvania: What are we to do with this resolution which will come from the Committee on Resolutions? us.

Motion carried.

Ohio State: I move that the section regarding the pin be taken out of the By-Laws and put in the Constitution It seem s time that we got a standard pin that won't go out of date every year or so. Let u s put it where we can't tamper with it every yea,r.

Motion seconded by Chicago.

The chairman of the Committee on Insignia (Wisconsin) supported the motion.

Penn. State: Was the report of the committee yesterday adopted?

Acting G. P.: Yes. The vote was unanimous, and the new section of the Constitution when properly codified with the title and section number will be presented to the chapters for ratification.

Colorado: We move to include the coat of arms in that same section of the Constitution.

Seconded by Illinois.

Acting G. P. : Two or three of our chapters are mixed up on this proposition If you leave it in the By-Laws, you give it a chance to be heard again; but if you put it in the Constitution y ou do not.

Minnesota: I move that the motion be tabled.

Seconded by Nebraska.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

H. M Cassidy elected Secretary.

Resolution of Southern California Alumni Association recommendin g that Greek lett ers be adopted for Acacia, presented to committee. Moved by Brother Morse, of Nebraska that the committee recommend that this Fraternity be perpetually and universalt'y called Acacia and nothing else. That the addition of Greek letters is not in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution. Seconded by Brother Vance, of Yale. Carried Brother Evans of Ohio appeared before the committee a:nd recommended that the Constitution the' regulations governing the pin. It was decided not desirable to make such a part of the Constitution.

Be it resolved that THE JouRNAL shall be published for the ensuing year by an editor. to be known as Grand Editor, to be chosen by this Conclave, and that he have the right to select such associate editors as he. may proper;, shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary expenses tncurred m the pubhcatwn of THE JOURNAL.

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Grand Treasurer Fay appeared before the committee and informed them that he a nd Brother Albert K. Wilson had prepared a codification of the Constitution and By -L aws. This was read to the committee and discussed section by section and yo ur committee presents here w ith a codified Constitution and By-Laws . Com mit t ee on Co n stitution and By-La w s. Lorr (Syracuse), Chr., CASSIDY (Illinois), MoRSE (Nebraska), HENSEL (California), VANCE (Yale)

At 4 .05 p. m. the Acting Grand President declared a recess of fi ve minutes.

A t 4.ro p. m. the Acting Grand President again called the meeting to order.

A cting G. P.: The committees of this Grand Conclave will adjourn and be di s solved. We are now under the heading of Election of Officers. The following officers will be elected for the ensuing year: Grand President , Grand Vice-President , Grand Secretary, Grand Treasurer .

Nominations for Grand President.

The delegate from Ames presented the name of Brother Roscoe Pound , of the Harvard Chapter.

Pennsylvania seconded this name.

The delegate from Michigan nominated Brother George E. Frazer, who has been Grand Vice-president for the past year.

This nomination was seconded by Washington. • Nebraska moved that the nominations be closed.

Seconded by Penn. State.

Acting Grand President Frazer appointed the delegates from Syracu se and Columbia to act as tellers.

Result of voting:

It was moved by the delegate from Ames , seconded by the delegate from Cornell, that this vote for Brother Frazer for Grand President be made unanimous.

The Grand Treasurer called for a standing vote. Given.

Acting G. P.: Nominations for the office of Grand Vice-president are now in order.

The delegate from Nebraska nominated Brother Robert I. Elliott, of the Nebraska Chapter.

Nomination seconded by Chicago.

The delegate from Illinois nominated Brother R. C. Fay, who has held the office of Grand Treasurer during the past year.

Nomination seconded by California.

The delegate from Ohio State nominated Brother Nicholas Prakken, of the Purdue Chapter.

Nomination seconded by Purdue.

It was moved by Illinois, seconded by Michigan, that the nominations be closed. Carried.

Result of voting:

N umber of vo tes cast. ............................. 24

R. C. Fay ........................................ II

Nicholas Prakken. .

R. I. Elliott.

. . . . . 8

5

It was moved by Nebraska, and seconded by Chicago, that the name of R. I. Elliott, being the lowest on the list , be dropped. Carried.

Result of second ballot:

R. C. Fay ........... . ................... , ...... . . I6

Nichola s Prakken. . 8

It was moved by Chicago, and seconded by Yale, that the Secretary be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for Brother Fay. Carried.

Acting G. P.: Nominations for the office of Grand Secretary are now in order.

The delegate from Pennsylvania presented the name Of Brother Harry E. Kilmer, who has been Grand Secretary for the past year.

Nomination seconded by Minnesota.

It was moved by Pennsylvania, and seconded by Wisconsin , that a vote be cast for Brother Kilmer for the office of Secretary. Carried .

Acting G. P . : Nominations for the office of Grand Treasurer are now in order.

The delegate from Wisconsin nominated Brother Woodward, of the Michigan Chapter.

Nomination seconded by California and Minnesota. Washington moved that the nominations be closed. Seconded by Yale. Carried.

Chicago asked that the Secretary be instructed to cast a unanimous vote. Seconded by Yale. . Carried.

Acting G. P.: Nominations are now in order for the office of Grand Editor.

The delegate from Pennsylvania nominated Brother William George Mann, of the Franklin Chapter of the University of Pennsylvania. Nomination seconded by Wisconsin and Penn. State.

It was moved by Michigan, and seconded by Ames, that the nominations be closed. Carried.

The Acting Grand President instructed the Secretary to cast a unanimous vote for Brother Mann.

The Acting Grand President then paid a tribute to the work that Dr. Shepardson had done for Acacia.

The delegate from Yale moved that such a parchment as described by the Acting Grand President be prepared and presented to Dr. Shepardson with the compliments of this Conclave. • Motion seconded by Penn. State. Carried.

The Acting Grand President appointed Brother Lott, of Syracuse, a committee to prepare the resolution and forward it to the Grand President for engrossing.

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M ichigan: Brother Fife, who has been elected an honorary member of the M ichigan Chapter, has not been initiated on account of sickness. He is now at his home in Detriot, and still sick. I move that this Conclave expres s its pleasure at the opportunity of welcoming Brother Fife to Acacia, and its regrets at being delayed on account of sickness from initiating him.

Seconded by Wisconsin . Carried. , Acting G. P.: The delegate from Michigan, under the direction of the Grand Secretary, will prepare and send a proper communication to Brother Fife.

The Acting Grand President called upon the following alumni, who . responded with a few words.

Brother Miggett, of Michigan.

Brother Lyman, of Yale.

Brother Jenkins, of Harvard.

Brother Hall, of Yale.

The installation of the Grand Officers then took place: Grand Treasurer Fay installed Brother Frazer as Grand President; Grand President Frazer installed Brother Fay as Grand Vice-president; Grand President Frazer installed Brother Kilmer as Grand Secretary; Grand President Frazer installed Brother Woodward as Grand Treasurer. Grand Editorelect Mann was absent, so could not be installed at this time.

Pennsylvania: In the absence of Brother Mann, I ask that any suggestions along the lines of THE JOURNAL be sent to me during the summer. My address will be 708 Belmont Place, Seattle, Washington. All recommendations sent by chapters or delegates, and more particularly from the Grand Council, will be gladly received and transmitted to Brother Mann upon his return from Europe in the fall.

It was moved by the delegate from Chicago, and seconded by the delegate from Illinois, that this Ninth Conclave of the Acacia Fraternity be adjourned sine die. Carried.

After prayer by Brother Frazer, the Conclave was dismissed.

GUARDED BY MASONIC PINS.

While men who are members of secret societies do not always wear emblems of these orders, it is no uncommon thing at the union depot to see young women and children who are "Masons," "Elks" or "Odd Fellows." Not that they really are affiliated with the orders, but that the various emblematic pins have been put on them to assure safety in traveling.

A few days ago a young girl upon whose breast was pinned a square and compass, lost her railroad ticket. She was journeying alone from California to a distant eastern point. A man who recognized the fact that some member of her family was a Mason learned of her misfortune. There was not much ceremony, but in less than five minutes a new ticket had been bought and paid for and the girl placed safely aboard the train on which she was to continue her journey. •

Yesterday a small boy who also was a "Mason" had no difficulty m finding friends at the depot. He wore a pin which belonged to his father and, although the latter was many miles away, there was parental care ever present.- Kansas City Journal.

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MINUTES.

Your committee re spectfully pre sents the fo ll ow ing r ecommenda t io n s concerning the minut es of the Eighth G rand Conclave : T ha t the Gr a nd Secretary appoint a memb er as Cl e rk to re -wr ite t he minute s a s approved by this Concla ve, correcting th e mani fest erro r s in names , spelling, and grammar, and that the Grand S ec r eta r y pub lish t h es e re-written minut es w ith tho se of thi s Concla ve.

Respectfully submitt e d , CoMMITT EE o N M I NUTES .

HARRY E. KILM ER , Grand Secretar y :

As Clerk appointed by you in conformity w ith a re s olution of t h e Ninth Grand Conclave, to rewrite the minutes of the Ei ghth Grand Con cl a v e , in accordance with the recommendations of the Comm itt ee on Min ut es, I submit to y ou herewith the corrected minutes as re w ritten.

Respectfully,

A. A. JEN KI NS, Clerk.

MINUTES OF THE EIGHTH GRAND CONCLAVE . .

Y. M. c. A. H ALL, U NIVER SI TY OF WISC ONSIN . MADISON, WISCONSIN, SEPT. I7, I9I3.

Acac ia Grand Conclave opened Wednesday, September I7, I9I3, at 9.30 a. m., with prayer by Grand President, Francis W. Shepardson.

The Conclave was called to order by Grand President, Francis W. Shepardson, with the following National Offi cers pre sent: Francis W. Sheparson , Grand President; George E. Frazer , Grand Treasurer and Harry E . Kilmer , Grand Secretary.

The following delegates were present:

T. F. McCoy, Aleph Chapter; E. M. Hogg, Beth Chapter; W. C. Magathan, Gimel Chapter; L. F. Meier, Daleth Chapter; E. D. Flynn , He Chapter; E. B. Hawes, Waw Chapter; A. A. Jenkins, Teth Chapter; E. R. Suter, Heth Chapter; W. G. Mann, Yodh Chapter; H. H. Thurston, Kaph Chapter; E . H. Whitcomb, Lamedth Chapter; H. K. Thatcher, Mem Chapter; L.A. Wilson, Nun Chapter; F. R. Polk, Samehk Chapter; J. F. Groves, Ayin Chapter; J. R. Schultz, Pe Chapter; T. W. Veness, Tsadhe Chapter; R. H. Moyer, Koph Chapter; H. D. Evans, Resh Chapter; F. P . Weaver, Shin Chapter; E. C. Carr, Aleph-Aleph; F. E. Hagen, Aleph-Gimel; F. E. Lott , Aleph-Daleth.

The reports of the Grand Officers were then called for.

REPORT OF THE GRAND PRESIDENT.

To the Eighth Grand Conclave: BRoTH ERs-The year 1912-13 was one of general prosperity and success for Acacia. With one exception the chapters have been active and aggressive, working hard to pu sh the fraternity forward to an assured position of prominence and power. The feeling of solidarity and unity so strikingly manifested at the Seventh Conclave made its influence apparent all through the college year. The fraternity life was marked by earnestness and zeal and there is no doubt that Acacia looks forward to its tenth year with confidence and courage.

ANTI-FRATERNITY SPIRIT-The most notable characteristic of the past year, so far as college fraternity experience is concerned, was the appearance of a strong sentiment of opposition in a number of states. The old charges against secret

societies were reinforced by complaints urged against the social features of fraternity life. The chapter house became the center of <1ttack. Arguments were made that liquor-drinking, gambling, immorality of other forms, snobbishness, extravagance and poor scholarship, found welcome and support in these homes of associated students. In the searching scrutiny Acacia came out with a splendid record. Fundamental obligations and laws bar liquor and gambling from our chapter houses. Cases of other immorality have been rare and have been handled promptly and thoroughly. A democratic spirit has been manifested everywhere. Expenditures for fraternity purposes have been moderate. In scholarship ratings Acacia has stood at the top or close to it in most institutions where it has a chapter. Furthermore, the fundamental Masonic requirement for membership, gave Acacia a peculiar influence with hostile legislatures. It is a source of great pride to have other fraternity men acknowledge the obligation due to Acacia in connection with the fights in Wisconsin and Ohio. The assistance rendered by Acacia members not only helped powerfully in checking anti-fraternity legislation, but it also raised Acacia greatly in the esteem of those who, sometimes, have not seemed willing to accord to it its rightful place in the college community. There is just reason for congratulation, therefore, as we meet in Grand Conclave, because of the high standing of our individual chapters and also because of our improved position in university circles.

INTERFRATERNITY RELATIONSHIP-The Fraternity was represented officially at the Interfraternity Conference, held in New YQrk, on Saturday following Thanksgiving. In several local instances there has been increased consideration of Acacia. As the National Conference is thoroughly committed to the care of the local Interfraternity Association the chapters should continue to seek representation in such organizations. The good work described above will be reported to the national gathering by officers of other fraternities and there is little doubt that Acacia will find much more cordiality shown to it because of the plain evidence of its strength and its power in time of difficulty and danger. It is recommended that the Grand Conclave reaffirm its adherence to the National Interfraternity Conference, and again provide for official representation at that notable convocation of American college fraternity men. If such action be taken, however, each chapter should understand that it will have the duty of co-operating heartily in all local attempts to better the conditions of college fraternity life.

THE FRATERNITY HISTORY-At a meeting of the Grand Council, among other important matters considered, the preparation of a history of Acacia found favor. The Grand President was appointed official historian and was instructed to prepare and publish the history. This work has been done as is evidenced by the I6-page pamphlet now presented to the Grand Conclave. Available records were examined with great care. The conflicting and frequently duplicative enactments of Conclaves were studied critically, digested and summarized. Important dates were collected from many sources. The several Grand Conclaves seemed to be the natural centers around which to build. While by no means completely satisfied with results, the historian believes that the foundations at least have been laid and that the story of nine years has been so told as to make future chronicles much less difficult of preparation. The writing of the historical sketch has been attended by thoughts of a more complete Hand Book of Acacia, which might contain also the Articles of Incorporation, the Constitution and Laws, the rosters of chapter membership, and pictures of Conclave groups, Grand Officers, owned chapter houses and similar historical material of illustrative value. The Grand Council is on record as favoring a Catalogue of Acacia to mark the completion of ten years of fraternity life. The idea of the Hand Book is commended to your favorable consideration as perhaps a more desirable medium for giving to Acacia a revised and connected htstory, an illustrated and complete code, and a reliable catalogue of its membership.

CoNSTITUTIONAL REVISION-It is recommended that the Conclave refrain as far as possible from altering or amending the organic law of the Fraternity. One who reads the records of the seven Conclaves so far held is astonished by the number and character of such amendments. There has been constant change. Enactments have been repeated in successive Conclaves with no apparent knowledge of what was doDe previously. Amendments have been so numerous that it has been practically impossible to have in printed form a correct and complete edition of our organic law. The Grand Council has appointed a special committee to prepare a code. The earlJ years of an institution are attended naturally by much uncertainty and experimeatation. Acacia has now worked out most of its problems. The time baa come wbea the Constitution should be considered fairly complete. Changes in its te11111 l1roald

be made only under stress of exceptional circumstances. The Laws also should be given a trial for y_ears, being made slowly and only after clear ev1dence of necess1ty. By th1s path, alone, can Acacia gain that fundamental strength wh1ch 1t ought to have at the close of a decade of constructive labors. The same argument applies to the Ritual. There may be dissatisfaction with some features of the ceremonial, but it is worth consideration whether it will not be better in the long run to give the Ritual a chance to commend itself by some years of careful trial. Dur!tW the year _the Grand' President has made a thorough study of the book. The cntlcal suggestions made by Brother Charles Chandler of Ayin have examined and in the main accepted and approved. Certain infehcltles of have been corrected. Anachronisms in dates have been eliminated. A few changes in terminology have been made to secure harmony with historical conditions in the supposed period of the ceremonial story. It is beheved that the orders of the Seventh Conclave have been obeyed. Corrected Rituals will be furnished the chapters by the Grand Secretary. An appeal is made for at least one year's further trial before any alterations are made in the attractive ceremonial by which new members are welcomed into Acacia.

THE ARCHIVEs-The importance of the national and local archives of Acacia cannot be overestimated. The history of the fraternity or that of an individual chapter is made up of the records of yearly achievement. Where these are well kept, labor is lightened. Where there is carelessness or inattention, what might seem to be most obvious facts are often difficult of verification. Chapter records should be watched carefully. The minutes of meetings should be kept with much detail and should be transcribed promptly into a permanent book. The individual records of membership should be filled out patiently, particular attention being paid to the photographs. The chapter scrapbook should be a popular feature in every house, an interested archivist having every opportunity to place coming generations of members under lasting obligations to him for his fidelity. Programs, menu cards, newspaper clippings, kodak pictures, and souvenirs of many kinds, relating to college, chapter, alumnus or active member, should be collected and pasted in the substantial volume. As the Fraternity gains in age, its store of historical material should increase rapidly. THE JoURNAL has been a great warehouse for such valuable materials. It has been rich in articles and illustrations. But there will be a mass of materials not of a character to warrant reproduction and yet of much importance from the viewpoint of the historian. This Conclave should make some definite provision for the <;ollection and preservation of fraternity memorabilia.

FRATERNITY INSIGNIA-The Grand Council has been active in connection with the designing of a coat of arms and a fraternity flag. In each ·case simplicity was sought. It is believed that the designs favored will grow in popularity the more they are studied. Ther. are dignified. They are emblematic. They compare satisfactorily with those of simtlar organizations. They are correct from the viewpoint of heraldry. In this connection I venture a question regarding the fraternity badge. Should its jeweled borders be retained? The simplification of fraternity jewelry and its reduction in price have been marked in college life in recent years. A small minority only now permit jeweled badges. Many prescribe and publish a fixed price beyond which an initiate is not to go. Acacia badges cost too much relatively. If the jeweled features were prohibited it would mean conformity to popular sentiment, and, more important of course, a marked saving in money to our members. •

More attention should be paid to the standardizing of the badge. There are too many variations seen. The Conclave should consider the possibility of selecting one firm as official jewelers and should inquire whether a profit sharing agreement might be made that would insure a steady income to the fraternity treasury in connection with such a plan.

The idea of abolishing the pledge pin is warmly endorsed. When every effort is being put forth by college authorities to minimize the evils of the rushing season, Acacia ought to take an advanced position against a method which tends to advertise the pledged man as set off in some manner from his fellow students. A Mason's word should be a sufficient evidence to a chapter of the sincerity of a pledge's intentions, and a note to each rival chapter announcing the pledging of an individual should be sufficient publication.

HoNORARY MEMBERS-Some of the chapters continue to favor the election of honorary members. A growing sentiment is developing against this method of adding to our lengthening roll the names of those who already have won distinction. In the first years of our life, when policies were uncertain and the future development problematical, honorary members proved helpful in certain cases. If it is the

de s ire o f Ac acia to advance along the well trodden road of American co llege fratermtle s this form of election must be abandoned before lon g . If the ambition is to d eve !'o p into a n order , rather th a n a fraternity, and there is no wi s h to profit by the e xpe ri en ce and the wisdom of other organi zations of college men, then there ma y be n o n eed for consideration of th!s subject. It is clear , ho weve r, that , it?-. t?e m a in , th e powe r and stren g th of A cac m mu s t co m e f r om th e d eve l o ped ab1ht1es of co lle ge m e n who find in s piration a nd ambition gr ow ing out of e a rn es t and happy h o ur s of a cti v e membership. If h o n o rar y members are to be ch o se n , th ey should beco m e h ono r a r y m embers of A cac ia rather than o f individual chapt e r s, and their fin a l choice s h o uld be made by the Grand Council or the Gr a nd Concl av e . The m ethod p ur s ued by chapters of askin g the Grand Council to ratify el ection s already ann o un c ed to the fa v ored indi v iduals has a tendency t o m a ke the pr oces s a farce.

SoNG BooK-The Committee on Song Book, appointed by the Grand Council, rep o rt s p rog re ss. It has not recei v ed as much co-operation a s . was h o ped f o r, and cann o t p re s ent its co mplete manuscript until a later date. There must not be too gr eat di sappointment in this case. Fraternity songs cann o t be manufa ctured to order . The y must grow out of experience, out of sentiment, out of deep affection. The Concla v e should take a strong position in fa vo r of the early publicati o n of the Song B oo k. Its members should urge the subject in chapter meetings "at home . Members who hav e ability in composition should be encouraged to contribute t o the committ ee' s m a nu s cripts. The Fraternit y needs songs, songs of senti me nt , s o ngs for the chapter meeting, songs for the table, marching songs, songs reflecting each phase of Acacia life While from modern student enterprise in music some new melodies may come, the most popular and successful songs are quite apt to be those set to old, familiar and easily remembered music. Let us in this Conclave determine to make a complete and satisfactory Song Book a reality before Ac a cia's first decade ends.

F o u NDE R ' s DA Y-An important st ep in the direction of cr y stallizing fraternity sentiment w a s taken by the Grand Council in establishing May 12 as Founder's Day, this being the date of incorporation of Acacia. The chapter representatives in this Concla v e should t a ke measures to secure a general celebration of this day in 1914. Each activ e and alumni chapter should have a banquet. There should be interchange of greetings among neighboring chapters. The program should contain appropriate addresses on phases of fraternity history. A spirited song to the Founders sho uld be one result of the celebration. The fraternity flag should be flown from e a c h chapter h o use. The fact that May 12, 1914, will be the tenth anniversary of A ca cia s h o uld help to m a ke the day more not a ble . It will be a powerful sentiment when ea ch chapt e r co mes to realize that every other chapter is meeting on the same night to sing Acacia 's glor y . .

ALUMNI CHAPTERs-The mention of alumni chapters is occasion for calling attention to the gathering of Acacia clans around the festal board . Chicago, Southern California and New York have organized. As the Fraternity increases, its membership groups will begin to form in other centers of population. An alumni chapter is an important agency in stimulating fraternify activity, in developing and preserving fraternity sentiment, and in perpetuating the strong friendships of college and frat e rnity li f e which mean so much in America In this connection it is to be noted that the active chapters are doing much to keep the alumni in close touch with the progress of Acacia. Several little chapter papers are being published with that end in view. Tlfey bear interesting names . The Heth Helto, the Yale Triangl e, the N u " Tra v eler, the Letter from Home, the Bulletin, the Daleth Asp-all bear the stamp of desire to spread the fame of Acacia and to sustain the interest and enthusiasm of alumni. papers and other less pretentious correspondence are important factors just now in the solidification and strengthening of Acacia. Without alumni support our fraternity growth must be slow and difficult. With it our chapters are assured of satisfactory homes and constantly increasing influence in their respective institutions.

THE JoURNAL-It is apparent that the Seventh Conclave made a mistake in connection with THE JouRNAL. The Fraternity needs greatly a medium of more frequent communication among the chapters. Just as soon as possible a periodical of six or eight numbers a year should be published. While the time is not yet ripe for so marked an advance in Acacia, there is no doubt that THE JouRNAL should be issued four times during the coming college year. Its editor should be given exclusive power to judge articles submitted for publication and should be encouraged to develop his own ideas in the conduct of a fraternity magazine. The amount of news matter printed in the chapter papers already mentioned is indicative of what might be offered , if the Fraternity should have at least a quarterly publication. THE ]OURlfAL

h as been an extremely va luable factor in Acacia's progress. Let us make it more effective through more f requent is sues and th rou gh the cult ivation of a constantly increasing ed it orial power consequent upon greate r freedom.

FRATERNITY EXPANSION - The extension of Acacia should go forward slow ly. The number of in stitutio n s is not lar ge where a sufficient amount of material can be found, considering the fundamental Ma soni c re quir em ent of the fraternity. The Grand Vice-president has thi s sub ject in his particular charge and will make report upon it, no doubt. Although the nine yea rs have seen the loss of two chapters, too hastily established, the roster of Acacia is one of exceptional excellence. The pronounced sentiment in favor of house membership precludes the possibility of chapters of s mall enrollment in sma ll colle ges, so that our lines of expansion seem in the main clearly defined. Conservatism should not lead us to be so slow in moving, howev er, as to encourage the organization of another fraternity having l ike idea l s with ou'r own. In the meantime fraternity zeal has abundant opportunity for expressi on in the study and solution of the internal problems which arise in each chapter 's life.

FRATERNITY LIFEr-The social life of Acacia has been improved during the yea r by the occupation of chapter houses at Yale and Chicago and dormitory group in g at Columbia. Our chapter houses are becoming centers of fraternity sentiment and rallying places for energetic enthusiasm. Several of tb.e chapters ' are moving toward permanent home s. No complaints have reached the Grand President about the co nduct of any of Acacia's houses. Such as h ave been visited hav e been found well kept and attractive without and within. A pride in the appearance of the chapter house must always be a fair index of the fr a ternit y interest and zea l of a chapter. Some chapters are not as energetic (\S others in connection with the collect ion and framing of pictures of permanent fraternit y value for wall decorations, but, in the main, the chapters are watchful of this important interest

ADMINISTRATIVE SuGGESTIONs-Further reflection has not altered the opinion expressed at the Seventh Conclave that there would be distinct administrative gain if the members of the Grand Council were to be chosen in classes of two eac h instead of having the terms of all expire simultaneously. While sufficient workers may and probably will be re-elected from time to time the system seems wrong which carries with it the possibility of a complete change of officials at one time . The Conclaves of Acacia have no element of continuity. Chapter delegates change each year, and, as a result there has been a vast amount of needless duplication in legislation and discussion. If the Grand President and Grand Treasurer were to be chosen at one time for a two years' term, the Grand Vice-president and Grand Secretary being elected in alternate years for a similar term, there would be a gain in the respect mentioned. If each official were to have a four-year term, one position becoming vacant each year, still greater administrative strength would result. The importance of having in the fraternity some element of greater permanency than is afforded by a one year's term for all four officers appeals so strongly to me, as I study Acacia's organization, that I urge consideration of the subject, even though it is recognized that the suggested changes are but illustrations of possible ones. In this connection the question is again raised, whether some use should not be made by the fraternity of the enthusiasm, zeal and experience of those who, in the past, have been honored as Grand Officers.

The District system still appeals to me as an administrative plan well adapted to Acacia's needs. A national fraternity, our chapters cover a wide geographical area. Our financial condition does not permit us to have a traveling secretary or to provide even occasional visitations by a fraternity official. Our chapters are not brought together to compare notes, exchange ideas, and develop fraternity enthusiasm. Each is left much to itself to work out its own destiny with only the supervision which the Grand Secretary can give by correspondence. If the chapters were grouped into districts, each with a deputy in charge, much might be gained in the direction of fraternity solidarity. No ideal arrangement of districts would be possible at first owing to geographical difficulties. No compensation or expenses could be allowed the deputies for their services. But the burdens of the Grand Secretary be greatly lessened, splendid workers for the fraternity might be trained, and mcreased effectiveness in local administration might be secured by the adoption of a plan which has proved its value in the development of quite a number of efficiently administered college fraternities. In the cases in mind, the fear of the development of local interest as opposed to national has never found any justification. All results have been favorable. Were the suggestion deemed worthy of consideration by the Conclave, four districts might be proposed, as follows:

District I. Harvard

Yale Columbia Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State S yra cuse Co rnell

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Dist rict II. Michigan Ohio State Purdue Illinois Chicago Northwestern Wisconsin

District III. Minnesota

Iowa State

Iowa Missouri

Kansas Nebraska Colorado

Dis trict I V California Stanford Washington

It is not impossible that broth e rs who are "on the road" might be found, who would be g lad .t o do deputy work for the Fraternity because of zeal and enthusiasm for it. Even if it were found impracticable to hold district reunions until smaller groupings were made , more frequent interchange of visits certainly might be stimulated. I am so confident that some such plan of district organization will eventually be adopted by Acacia that I have paid it so much attention at this time, even though no support for it may be found at present.

I renew also my recommendation that the Conclave favor the budget system for chapter financial administration. Under such a plan a careful estimate of expenditures is made at the opening of the college year, this being based on actual experience for several years preceding. The proper allowance having been made for the several departments of chapter administration, the budget as a whole is adopted as a working basis. No additional outlays are to be permitted unless the chapter votes an additional appropriation to be provided for by an extra assessment or by a formal transfer of unused funds from one section of the budget to another. A member is entitled to know just what financial demand his fraternity will make upon him during the college year. The Fraternity should have as part of its regular work the training of its members in correct business habits. The budget system accomplishes both of these ends. It works toward economy and efficiency. It is so far superior to the old fashioned method of special assessments, regardless of funds on hand or individual ability to pay levies, that where it once is adopted it never is abandoned. Since Acacia is composed of men, who are of a lawful age and well recommended, its business affairs should be administered on business principles . The Fraternity should lead in this respect also, as it seeks to lead in other ways.

OuR DECENNIAL ANNIVERSARY-The Ninth Grand Conclave will mark the completion of ten years of Acacia. Sentiment naturally suggests that it be held with Aleph Chapter at Ann Arbor. The mother chapter will do its full part in arranging a satisfactory program of exercises. But this Conclave should plan for active co-operation in making the occasion one forever memorable in the annals of Acacia. There should be a notable gathering at the shrine where the altar fires were first lighted in I904- We look forward to our first complete catalogue at that time. We hope to sing glad songs from our first song book. We should have a rallying committee to stimulate our alumni to attend. Former Grand Officers should be summoned to appear at the birthplace of the Fraternity. A strong appeal to sentiment should be made during the year and every effort should be put forth by Grand Officers and by chapter authorities alike to secure a large, enthusiastic and representative assemblage of ardent Acacians. For the ordinary Conclave we must be content with a meeting of delegates. But the happy completion of our first decade must be celebrated by a larger gathering of the clans.

THE CoNCLAVE WoRK-And so, brothers, I summon you to the duties and 1ay upon you the responsibilities of the Eighth Grand Conclave of Acacia. We have assembled from widely scattered chapters to work for our growing Fraternity. The _honor of being a. delegate is a one. But the position is no smecure. The stability. and strength of Acacia depends upon our actions here. The future of the Fratermty is i!l our ha;tds. .Our organizatic;m is young in years but .there are those who have give!l. It their the1r. prayers and their sacnfices. We assume the responsibility of conhnumg the budding. Let us be men of vision, ignoring the trifling obstructions at our feet as we press forward toward the mountan top of triumph. Let us meet upon the level, act by the plumb and part upol} square. Let harmony and brotherly love prevail and every m'?r:U and social virtue cement us. There may be sharp differences of opinion and spmted debate. But let us remember the fourfold tie that unites us and how truly "we be brethren." Thus we shall best accomplish the purposes for which we are assembled and best illustrate that harmony which is "the strength and lUllport of all institutions, especially this of ours." Let us here once more "spread the

cement of brotherly lo ve and affect ion; that cement which unites us into one sacred band or society of friends and brothers among whom no contention should ever exist, but that noble contention, or ra t her emulation, of who best can work and best agree."

But I am not content with calling to your minds the duties and re sponsibilities of this Conclave, important as they are. There is a greater work for Acacia and Acacians without the cloistered walls. We encourage our novitiates to seek the Truth that they may use it to give light to their fellow men. Our Fraternity is but a small fragment of man's ministry to humanity. The call to service comes in clarion tones from every side. Let us strive more eagerly to devel op leaders for life's great conflicts. Let us struggle more earnestly to train men, clean, honest, virile men who will be proud in their life and conduct, to exemplify the principles and exalt the ideals of Acacia, and so will find surer place in the foremo st of every movement for better college life, for better American citizenship , fqr a purer and sweeter humanity. Let us not forget that Immortality in which we are taught to believe, that unknown region of light and life eternal where human influence shall have no bounds or limitations, where riche st fruition shall be found for all of life's patient, untiring and faithful endeavor.

So before we begin the deliberation of our Conclave I invite you to join with me in a great song of brotherhood:

"We're born of one great mother, And we drink one common air, And brother joined with brother Sings away all carking care.

For the stars once sang together a sweet fraternal song, And the rivers, rushing seaward, their harmonies prolong ; A thousand leaves are murmurous in the music of one tree, And lulls to sleep one great humanity.

We toil and moil together And we think on anxious years ; In storm and stress of weather Let us sing away our fears.

Brothers in what's before us, Brothers in birth and death, One living sky bends o'er us, Let us sing with joyous breath.

For the stars once sang together a sweet fraternal song, And the rivers, rushing seaward, their harmonies prolong; A thousand leaves are murmurous in the music of one tree, And mother -nature lulls to sleep one great humanity."

FRANCIS W.

SHEPARDSON , Grand Preside1tt.

Madison, Wis., September 17, 1913.

It was moved by Bro. Flynn of He, seconded by Bro. Mann of Yodh, that the report of the Grand President be accepted and placed on file. Motion

Report of the Grand Vice-President, W. Elmer Ekblaw, was read by Bro. Suter. This report was written July 15, five hours off the coast of Labrador.

REPORT OF THE GRAND VICE-PRESIDENT.

Br1tlw1n in Acacia, in National Conclave assembled:

Perhaps this unique report of your Grand Vice-president has no parallel in the history of our Fraternity. It is written aboard the little sealer "Diana" now off the coast of Labrador in the Straits of Belle Isle, surrounded by large, beautiful icebergs gleaming in the brilliant sunshine, sturdily plowing through a sea as blue as the clear sky above, and with a brisk north wind blowing cold from the far-off lands to which the tiny ship is going. Besides your Grand Vice-president, your

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former Grand Treasurer is aboard, at present curled up on a pile of boxes of pemmican , basking in the warm sunshine. We are both bound for Ellesmerelandand where, from our headquarters on Flagler Fjord, we shall explore the unknown countries to the northwest. We greet you fraternally in the bonds of Acacia, whose colors fly from the halyards of our brave ship. .

The report of my office must necessarily be brief. In the short time I had to give to the affairs of my fraternity before I sailed, very little of moment occurred. Our Grand President has undoubtedly given you an account of the session of yo ur Grand Council, and our Grand Secretary will give you a report on the vote for the granting of a charter to the Masonic Club of the Manhattan, Kansas Agricultural College. I hope that the vote on this petition was favorable, and I trust that it was, for if ever a club deserved admittance to.. our chapter list the K. S. A. C. Masonic Club does.

Numerous inquiries and considerable correspondence led to no satisfactory developments with other prospective petitions. The possibilities of further chapters seem decidedly limited. The most interesting work of this office has been the correspondence with Brother Franklin Taylor of Harvard Chapter(*), Superintendent of Schools at East Braintree, Mass., with regard to re-establishing our chapter at Dartmouth. I believe that in the course of a year we should be able to regrant the if the matter were properly pushed.

In three years we hope to return from the NorthlanQ. to present to you one of 1e two Acacia pennants which we carry with us. Till then Auf Wiedersehen! w. ELMER EKRLAW.

It was moved by Bro. Meier of Daleth, seconded by Bro. Polk, of Samehk, that the report of the Grand Vice-president be accepted and placed on file. Motion prevailed and it was so ordered.

REPORT OF THE GRAND TREASURER. Brothers: .

I beg to submit herewith my report as Grand Treasurer for the fiscal year 1912-1913-

Received balance from A. R. Keith, Grand Treasurer, Sept. 28, 1912

$ 830.65

Received from H. E. Kilmer, Grand Secretary, Sept. 22, 1912, to Sept. 16, 1913, as per receipts numbered 167 to 178 and 18o to 207, incl...................... · 3477.83 Disbursements from Sept. 22, 1912 to Sept. 16, 1913, as .per numbered F 1 to F 13 and 100 to 119 1nclus1ve $1844.32 Balance, Sept. 16, 1913, as per deposit in Merchants and Savings Bank, Madison, Wis .....................

101, outstanding...

Fraternall:y yours, GEORGE E. FRAZER, Grand Treasurer.

It was moved by Bro. Flynn of He Chapter, seconded by Bro. Hogg of Beth Chapter, that the report of the Grand Treasurer be accepted and placed on file.

REPORT OF THE GRAND SECRETARY.

For the period from September 10, 1912, to September 15, 1913. · Including a Financial Statement and Journal Report. Brothers:-At the close of my fourth term of office, I submit the following report of the work of the Grand Secretary's Office, covering the period above stated, together with certain recommendations.

I feel that there ought to be a change in the personnel of the Conclave or you will get to taking mental lapses during the reading of my report. This report will be just like those that have preceded it. It will be an attempt to set forth as briefly as possible the condition of our affairs as a fraternity, together with certain recommendations which are submitted for your consideration.

(*)NoTE-Brother Taylor is a member not of Harvard, but of Dartmouth Chapter.-.Clerk.

The special duties ass igned to this office by the last Conclave have been performed. Again I ask that a full and complete in vestigation of the methods employed and the work performed be made by the respective committees and that the delegates feel free to make any in quiry they may deem advisable . I that no brotherly or personal consideration will prevent any brother from criticising the work done or the methods pursued, for as dele gates you owe it to the chapters and to yourselves to see that the work of thi s office is performed properly and that such methods are pursued as will ensure its g reate st usefulness to the Fraternity. We shall note the work which has been performed under the respective headings which follow.

MEMBERSHIP RECORDS .

The keeping of the records is one of the most important branches of our wo rk We feel that we have certainly kept this matter of membership records before the members of the F raternity. No Jo URNAL has gone out w ith out having something to say on this subject, and in fact by letter and pamphlet we have preached, plead, prodded and become dangerously near being a common scold. But I am pleased to note the change that has come about in the years that I have known something of the work of gathering in the membership records . The great majority of the chapter secretaries take pride in the fact that they have a complete file of records or that they are working to get a complete file on record. Several of the alumni have made it their business to help get the files of their chapters completed. We have in most of the chapters the proper interest and understanding of the import a nce of this work and let us hope that every chapter in the Fraternity may soon get a full realization of its importance. I could name several that ought to receive honorable mention for good service in this important work, but I need not enumerate them here, for the consciousness of having done our duty should be our full measure of reward.

We have not accomplished as much as we should like to report. We have done our best. Some of us have labored so long together on this work that we have come to know each other although we have never met face to face, and in the work we have found such comrades as Villars of Daleth, Merrifield of Kaph, Guillaudeu of Waw, Boyden of Teth and a number of others.

There is no cause fqr discouragement. Five years ago we had a file of membership records about three inches thick; now we have four loose leaf binders that will soon have to be added to in order to afford space' for the new ones. The report of 1909, after a year's work showed ' 905 records on file and r85 missing; in 1910 there were 1441 records on file and 73 missing; in 1912 there were 2122 records on file and 57 missing. There are now 2450 records on file and 49 missi!Jg.

In this connection J wish to call attention to the fact that we have at last made a permanent roll of the Fraternity. For four years we have been keeping the roll on loose paper, for the reason that we did not . want to make the roll out in permanent form until we were reasonably sure that we had all the members and could enter them somewhere near their chronological order. The preparation of this roll has been no small task.

On the subject of membership records I have said enough, but let us as delegates see to it that no member is initiated into the Fraternity until his record and duplicate are filled out and the original is sent to the Grand Secretary. Let this be one of the things you men remember when you go back to your chapters.

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This subject is now an important one before the Fraternity and in fact has been a bone of contention ever since I have known the Fraternity. But whatever may be the differences of opinion regarding so-called fundamentals, we are glad to report that the chapters have carefully guarded the portals of the Fraternity. Only one case of expulsion has been reported. Our chapters are doing a great deal of sifting before admitting members, and this is proper.

For several years I have noted a tendency on the part of some to abolish honorary membership. I have never favored such a step, but the experience of the last year has brought home to me a realization that some radical action must be taken in this connection.

In three chapters we have had members initiated as honorary members before the sanction of the Grand Council has been obtained and we have had a number of chapters that seemed impelled to initiate all the high Masonic of their respective states. Now I realize in speaking on this subject I am gettmg dangerously near home, as may be seen by an examination of the roll of my own chapter.

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The cause for this great addition to the roll of honorary members is not e n tirel y app a rent and no doubt di ff ers in the several chapters.

The files o f THE Jo u RNAL will show that I have tried to point out the law on t his subject and in numerous letters I have done my best to make the matter pl a in. De spit e these efforts there are now pending three cases w here members have bee n init iated as honorary m emb e rs with o ut th e s a nc ti o n o f the Grand Council , and w e ha ve go tten two or three cases out of the w ay durin g the year W e be lie ve there is need of le g islation o n this subject. We therefore recommend a con stitu t io na l amen d ment limitin g the number o f li v in g h o norary members in ea ch chapter to five members and where a chapter has already to exceed that nu m ber that then no other honorary members be admitted until the number shall be l es s than five

In this connection I wish to call the attention of the Conclave to a defect • in our la w , in my judgment. You will note that under our law the Grand Council has power to suspend a chapter but that it has no power over an individual member of the Fraternity. This is a fatal defect, for supposing A B. had been initiated by a certain chapter and he becomes a bum and dead beat and imposes on other members of the Fraternity after he g ets out of school or after he leaves his chapter This member may have such influence with his chapter as to prevent his expulsion or discipline . Now the Grand Council should have full power to expel such a member, subject t o the ri g ht to appeal to the n ex t Con cl av e The power of the Council to s u s pend the ch a rter in some ca se s h a s no t er r ors. And when men take oath to comply with our laws and then fail to do so we · should have some method of ridding our brotherhood of them. I trust you will see your way clear to provide for th is amendment and the others referred to in the minut e s of the last Grand Council meetin g. These minutes are to be found in the May Bull e tin, copies of which are now in y our hands

In closing on this subject of membership I shall submit a summarized statement of the membership of each chapter and the number of records on file and • the number missing.

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CHAPTERS.

The year has been one of the most satisfactory we have kno w n whe n w e l oo k o ver the roll of chapters. We have every reason to point with pride to the re cord o f the chapters when taken as a whole. There has only been one ex ception in the whole list of chapters and this e x ception w as to be no t e d a t the la st Co ncl ave.

I must be specific in order to do my whole duty. There are som e chap te rs which have ne v er g iven ca use for a g r ea t de al o f tr o ubl e o n our p a rt. A l ep h , Gi m el, He, H eth , Teth, Lamedth, Mem, Nun, Samehk, K o ph , Tsadhe , Aleph-Gimel a nd Aleph-Daleth, have never given any great amount of trouble , though some o f this list have had lapses.

I f e el that Daleth and Kaph and Yodh have made great progre s s during the year. The first two have certainly done better than they have done for some time. Beth Chapter seems to have at last fallen into the proper hands. The progre ss of Ayin and Pe Chapters is one of the bright spots in our year of achievement. Bo th of these chapters now have houses and the year has been one of real growth. AlephAleph and Shit:t Chapters have been fighting a good fight and Shin Chapter seems now to be on the way to a great victory

This brings us to a consideration of Aleph-Beth Chapter. I have done all I could and Brother Shepardson has given the affairs of this chapter consideration I at one time thought of moving the Council to suspend the charte,r, and in order to be within the law, I shall at the meeting of the Council here move the of Aleph-Beth Chapter. The Conclave then can hear from Brother Shepardson and take such action as it deems advisable. I have not been able to get any informati on from Aleph-Beth for over six months, and I believe upon full investigation you will find it advisable to recall the charter.

All the chapters have their troubles. Some of these are financial and some are due to lack of harmony. But when taken as a whole, the chapters are stronger and better in every way, than they have been before. Let us not forget to make adequate provision for a better method of keeping cha]}ter accounts. When we have proper attention given to chapter finances then most of the other troubles will depart.

Let us see to it that the rule is not relaxed requiring petitioning bodies to maintain a chapter house for a year prior to their installation. Remember that a chapter house is the center of the Chapter and without a house a ch a pter cannot, unle s s under extraordinary circumstances, become a real vital link in the chain.

And again let us foster here a real pride in the Fraternity; a pride based on the full realization of what our Fraternity stands for as a whole and then let us return to our chapters and try and bring home to the brothers there the fact that loyalty to the chapter means loyalty to the whole Fraternity.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Upon this subject I have nothing to add to my report of last year. The correspondence of this office is one of its heaviest burdens and yet one of the most pleasant duties one has to perform. The same helpful relations have continued to exist between this office and the chapters. I have striven to do my whole duty-to advise , to correct, to suggest, and to aid the chapter secretaries ; and there is a continued growth in the correspondence with the alumni. Many of the alumni write me once or twice a year telling about themselves and their work. I have on several occasions written to alumni in one city telling them that a brother was to locate in that city and as this report was being written I received the thanks of one brother who had been helped by this means. I may be pardoned for noting these things in passing, but it makes one feel that the bond that unites us is a real one, and that you and I and all of us are united in a great common service, and that the Fraternity does mean something to us, and that it has real claims upon us.

Our files will show a very full and accurate aacount of chapter affairs. Some of the chapter secretaries have been delinquent. This has always been the case, but we feel sure that there has been improvement.

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I trust that as a Grand Officer I have been of assistance to the chapters and to every member who has made a call upon the office. It has been my earnest desire to make this office a clearing house of Fraternity thought, ideals and information, and with all to be helpful. I have sent out 779 letters during my term of office, besides numerous packages and parcels, as may be seen from the postal register, which will be turned over to the Auditing Committee

FINANCES

Our finances were never in better condition than at present, Some of the chapters owe considerable sums, but in most cases these are old debts and these have been diminished. It may be well to note that we shall again be able to pay the expenses of this Conclave out of the cash on hand. This will be the second time in the history of the Fraternity that this has been done.

The financial report will cover in detail our finances and is herewith submitted.

Initiations

RECEIPTS EXPENDITURES

$I744-98

Per Capita Tax I873 7S

Journal

Acacia Song

Lam e dth

Aleph-Aleph

In thi s connection I wish to urge that no change be made in the charges and fees due the Fraternity.

ACCOUNTS AND VOUCHERS.

I have nothing new to add on this subject. But this is a subject we cannot le a ve without giving our former opinion upon In line with what is no new subject on my part since becoming a member of the Fraternity, I have striven to ke ep an ac curate set of books and full and complete vouchers for all money expended. I

• trust that your Auditing Committee will make a full investigation of my books and accounts that they ascertain what money has been received and how disposed of, and that for all money expended by me they find whether vouchers are on file. I ask this as a personal favor and as a duty they owe the Fraternity The Auditing Committee is charged with the important work of verifying my accounts and seeing what funds were received and how they have been eKpended. My books and vouchers should fully explain these matters, and I trust that no brotherly or personal consideration will in the least induce them to refrain from criticism if such is merited. The Fraternity as a whole has the right to know and ought to know what has become of its funds. You delegates should determine in this Conclave what work your Grand Officers a re to carry forward for the coming year and then you should make provision for the funds to carry forward this work, and your successors at the next Conclave should see that the work has been performed and the funds expended as directed . This can only be known when adequate books and vouchers are kept. Let us not forget to demand these at all times from our Grand Officers, and let us strive earnestly to begin some system in our respective chapters that will give us a proper accounting system.

JOURNAL.

I have given this subject a great deal of thought. I must confess that THE JouRNAL does not altogether please me, and I may say that this feeling seems to be largely individual , or members who have written me have not been candid. There has been some criticism from Teth Chapter, the gist of the objection to THE JouRNAL being that it has too much to say on such common subjects as membership records, honorary members, per capita dues and the like. From one point of view the objection is a valid one . But my opinion of the matter is that a young fraternity such as ours must have these common subjects hammered on and in , until we get a sort of chapter consciousness of them. Then we can perhaps induce some member, who is large enough and broad enough, to give us a more literary and idealistic treatment of the problems which confront the Fraternity. I shall be glad to see that day and will welcome it most heartily. I feel, however, for the present that it would be well to leave THE JouRNAL in the hands of the Grand Secretary, and as long as your Grand Secretary has as much to do as the present incumbent, he will find little time for literary work, even if he had the ability to do it We ought not to despair of THE JouRNAL. We are a young organization. The day will come when our membership will have many men who are able to write for us and the time will come when we can depend more upon the chapters for material to make THE JouRNAL more interesting and profitable. '

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Thir ty - s ix vo lume s of THE JoURNAL files ha v e been bound . The co s t of binding wa s 8o ce nt s per volume . The cost of printin g TH E Jo u RN AL f o r the la st year, for th e tw o is s ues , wa s $650.70. The December number cost $335 .2 5, and the M ay numb e r cos t $31545. I have had the w o rk done by the Buxton & Skinner Printing Co ., of St. Louis Th e ir price w as the lowe s t that I could obtain f r om any responsible concern , ex cept the Geo . Banta Publishing Co. When I got in touch with the B a nta Publishi n g C o. arr a ngements had already been made with the other concern . The Ba n ta Publi s hing Co m a ke what se em s "t o be a v ery re a so nable r a te I think that it wo uld be well to investigate their proposition carefully before letting the contract f or the ne x t y ea r

You ha v e already not ed that we do not have as m a ny ad v ertisements in THE Jo u RNA L this y ear a s las t There seems to be no h ope of our getting much financial aid from ad ve rtisers to defray the exp enses of THE JouRN AL. I have already spoken at le ngth on this subject and will not g o into it further at this time.

THE Jo u RNA L has been sent t o all the Grand Lodges of the United States and t o s everal M a s onic Libr a ries I submit to th e Auditing Committee an itemi zed acco unt of the Jo u RN ALS distributed

The l a st year marked the trial of an experiment in the publication of the Bulletin My own opini o n o f this experiment is this-that the Bull e ti n does not take the pl a ce of the corre s pond e nce that has to be done by the Grand Secretary, and that it does not acc o mplish what it was hoped to accomplish by its publication . I beli ev e th a t the be st so luti o n o f our present problem of getting acquainted is to have three publicati o ns of THE J ou RNAL and h av e the Grand Secretary keep .in touch with th e indi v idual chapters by me a ns o f correspondence, a nd then in so far as possible urge each chapter to publish a pamphlet on the order of the Daleth Asp , The Nun Tra ve l er , Th e H e th H ell a and the like . Of course each chapter that publishes such a pamphlet should send copies to the other chapters and to the Grand Officers , as well a s to their a lumni

CONCLAVE.

The time and place of meeting of the next Conclave should be determined by this Conclave. This matter should be left to a committee appointed early in the Conclave which will examine the subject carefully and report their findings . Let us not leave this matter until the last moment before adjournment and then upon the invitation of some chapter decide the matter. The question of the place of meeting of the next Conclave means a large expenditure of the Fraternity ' s funds and these funds should be expended wisely . I strongly recommend an annual Conclave, and I believe that we now have sufficient funds coming in to pay for an annual Conclave. The Conclave last year cost the Fraternity $1459.27 and we believe that the cost of the present Conclave will not be much larger .

ENDOWMENT FUND.

The funds held by this committee amounting to $65.85 were sent by Brother Clarence G. Hill to the Grand Secretary and forwarded by him to the Grand Treasurer, and the amount of cash given in the financial statement just read includes this item. Now I wish to recommend that a small sum be added to this fund this year and that the combined sum so set aside be placed in the hands of the Grand Treasurer and Grand President to loan out. They could no doubt place this where it would be safe and we would make a start on this fund and gradually increase it In my opinion the idea back of the endowment fund is a good one. I urge that a committee be appointed to make an investigation of this subject and report to this Conclave.

CARD CASES AND TRAVELI TG CARDS .

There has not been so large a call for card cases as in the past but the demand for traveling cards has increased. I submit to the Auditing Committee an itemized statement of this account.

COMMITTEES.

I shall not take up space in this report giving in detail the work of the committees appointed by the last Concla v e. This inf6rmation may be had from the May Bulletin, copies of which are in your hands. : At the meeting of the Grand Council several committees were appointed to carry forward work that was not then completed. The Committee on Accounting wu

ch_anged and this commit!ee will probably have something to report here The commtttee on a song book wtll pr o bably not have completed its work so as to make anything more than a preliminary rep o rt to this Conclave .

The Committee on Coat-of-arms and Flag reported to the Grand President and these matters were taken up by the Grand Council and a coat-of-arms and flag adopted.

COPYRIGHTS.

Two copyrights have been secured during the year, one on the coat-of - arms and one on the Acacia Song.

ALUMNI ORG ANI ZATIO NS .

Logically this subject should have been treated under the heading of Membership , but I have left it to be considered alone. The organ ization of alumni associations is a hopeful sign of the r ea l worth of Acacia. It shows that our alumn i are going out into the world of affairs and are not forgetting their Fraternity. There are associations at Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, and other associations will be formed in the near future. A committee should be appointed by this Conclave to study this subject and it may be that certain changes in our laws are looking to a formal recognition of these ass oc iations. I respectfully urge upon this Conclave a close consideration of this subject.

INVENTORY.

I submit herewith inventory of property held by me belonging to the Fraternity: 1 seal; I Oliver Typewriter; I desk; I Lundstrum Filing Cabinet; I Edison Mimeograph; I letter file; 4 membership record books; ledger, cash book, journal , ritual record book, and roll book; I steel dye for membership certificates at Buxton & Skinners's; I steel die for charter with the Rounds- Truman Co.; IOI card cases ; I8I rituals ; I postal scale; several boxes of JouRNALS and files. There is also some stationery and office supplies on hand. There is postage on hand amounting to 74 cents. I submit herewith the following recommendations :

1. That great care b-e exercised in making amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws. The procedure is simple, and I would suggest that the amendments be written out, and when finally passed that the amendment be designated as a by-law or constitutional amendment and be read in its final form and the vote taken by roll call, and that the written amendment be turned over to the Grand Secretary for comparison with the notes of the stenographer.

2. That the Grand Secretary publish the minutes of this Conclave in the first issue of the JouRNAL, and that the minutes together with other matter shall be issued, as a November JouRNAL; that two other numbers be issued, one on February I and one on May I, and that the chapter editors shall send in their letters for these numbers of the JouRNAL, not later than October 10; January 10, and April I; and that delegates notify their editors immediately upon their return of the date of the first chapter letter being due.

3· That the subscription price of the JouRNAL shall be one dqllar per year or fifty cents per single copy to all, except active members or orders made tlv'ough the chapter secretaries when the same shall be thirty-five cents per copy; that each active member whose per capita tax is paid on December Ist shall be entitled to the November number free, and that each active member whose per capita tax is paid on May Ist shall be entitled to the February and May numbers free.

Finally, brothers, this personal word, I feel, should be made a part of this report. Since June, I9Q8, I have held the office of Grand Secretary. There probably is a feeling that if the office is an honor I have held it long enough, and if it is a burden I have carried it long enough. I have no desire to make any answer to either of these propositions, save this, that since my first election, I have asked no member of any Conclave for his support, and today I feel that if you have a candidate in mind for the office, I shall be glad to greet him as my successor. At times , I feel as if I cannot carry on the work and attend to my other duties, and again at times I feel as if I could not be without the comradeship it gives me. I wish here again to bear witness to the courtesy that has been extended to me by the chapter officers and the members of the Grand Council. Their work speaks for itself and I can only hope

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that the same may be truthfully said of my own. Not all things were accomplished that have been undertaken, but we hope that we have carried the work forward devotedly and earnestly and that something has been left for others to build upon more wisely and better .

Respectfully submitted, HARRY E KrLM E R, Gram! Secretary.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

It was moved by Bro. Groves of A yin, and seconded by Bro. Jenkins of Teth, and Shultz of Pe, that the report of the Grand Secretary be received and placed on file. Motion prevailed and it was so ordered.

The Grand President called for the report of the Grand Council and upon request of the Grand Secretary, the same was made the first order of business Thursday afternoon.

Two telegrams of greeting received and read from F. P. Landrum and H. S . Villars.

The next order of business was the report of the delegates:

Grand President: We now have an hour before taking a recess and we will spend our time as last year in hearing the reports from the individual chapters. Here is the chance for us to have a good old-fashioned talkaround, stating such things as will be of interest to us. There will be perfect freedom in asking questions. Let us find out in this grand talk-around how we stand. I will call first on the representative of Aleph Chapter at the University of Michigan to make a report.

McCoy of Aleph, reported at length upon the condition of Michigan Chapter and was questioned by the delegates regarding the various matters reported on.

At I2.IO the Conclave adjourned until 2 p. m., after the presentation of a gold badge to each delegate by Brother Hawes, in behalf of Bro. Landrun of Waw.

When the Conclave reopened the following delegates reported and were examined upon the condition of their respective chapters:

Hogg, Beth Chapter. Magathan, Gimel Chapter. Meier, Daleth Chapter. Flynn, He Chapter. Hawes, W aw Chapter.

Jenkins, Teth Chapter. Suter, Heth Chapter. Mann, Yodh Chapter. Thurston, Kaph Chapter. Whitcomb, Lamedth Chapter.

The Grand President appointed the following committees for this Conclave:

Committee on Constitution and Jurisprudence: A. A. Jenkins, Teth; E. R. Suter, Heth; H. H. Thurston, Kaph; F. R. Polk, Samehk; E. B. Hawes, Waw.

Committee on next Conclave: W. C. Magathan, Gimel; F. P. Weaver, Shin; H. D. Evans, Resh.

Commitee on Resolutions: E. D. Flynn, He; T. F. McCoy, Aleph; L.A. Wilson, Nun; W. G. Mann, Yodh; F. E. Hagen, Aleph-Gimel.

Committee on Auditing: F. W. Veness, Tsadhe; L. F. Meier, Daleth; E. C. Carr, Aleph-Aleph.

Committee on Auditing of Delegates' Expenses: E. M. Hogg, Beth; W. G. Mann, Yodh.

Acacia Pin: T. F. McCoy, Aleph; L. A. Wilson, Nun; H. K. Thatcher,

Chapters: J. F. Groves, Ayin; F. E. Lott, Aleph-Daleth; E. H. Whitcomb, Lamedth.

' Committee on Song Book: J. R. Schultz, Pe; H. D. Evans, Resh; R. H. Moyer, Koph.

Committee on Catalogue: H. H . Thurston, Kaph; F. P. Weaver, Shin; R. H. Moyer, Koph; F. E. Hagen, Aleph-Gimel.

The Conclave adjourned to meet Thursday , 9 a . m. Thursday, 9 a. m., the Conclave reconvened with all delegates present.

The chapter reports were resumed and the following delegates reported:

Thatcher, Mem Chapter. Schultz, Pe Chapter. Wilson, N un Chapter. Veness, Tsadhe Chapter. Polk, Samehk Chapter. Moyer, Koph Chapter. Groves, Ay in Chapter Weaver, Shin Chapter.

At 12 m. adjc,>urnment was had until 2 p. m.

At 2 o ' clock the hearing of reports from chapters was continued as follow s :

Evans, Resh Chapter.

Hagan, Aleph-Gimel Chapter. Carr, A l ep h-A leph Chapter. Lott, Aleph-Daleth Chapter.

On behalf of the Committee on Chapters, Bro. Groves submitted the following li st of questions to the delegates:

I. Chapter dues?

2. Room rent of members?

3· Rate of board?

4· Initiation fees-what included?

5. Membership in local Pan-Hellenic?

6. Admiss ion of Greeks allowed?

7. Number of affiliated men active?

8. Chapter scholastic standing?

9· Memory book kept by chapter?

10. How is attendance at meeting secured?

II. What is percentage of attendance by actives?

12 Is the pledge pin favored?

13. Is the jewel pin favored?

14. Are new members instructed in chapter work?

I 5. Are any members delinquent financially?

16. Is expulsion of such members favored?

17. Number of Masons in school?

18. Number lost by faculty action-and reasons?

19. Method of rushing used?

20. Percentage of membership undergraduate?

The recommendations in the following report were then adopted, after discussion regarding the date, upon motion of Flynn, seconded by Hogg.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NEXT CONCLAVE.

Your Committee on the next Conclave begs leave to recommend that the Fraternity accept with thanks the kind invitation of our Mother chapter, Aleph of Acacia, to meet at Ann Arbor in 1914. That the time of this meeting be fixed as June 25, 26, and 27, in accordance with the recommendation of the Conclave. . Your committee further recommends that the suggestion of the Grand President relative to the celebration of this Tenth Anniversary be carried out.

Your committee further recommends that the Fraternity accept the kind invitation of Beth and He Chapters to meet in California in 1915.

Respectfully submitted, W. C. McGATHAN, Gimel, F. R. WEAVER, Shin, H. D. EvANs, Resh.

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Adjournment was then taken until 7 p. m. and the Conclave witnessed at the chapter house an exemplification of the ritual, in the initiation of a candidate by the Chapter Officers, aided by several of the delegates.

EVENING SESSION.

September 18, 1913.

7.30 to 9.30.

Conclave called to order by Grand President Shepardson at 7 p. m. Bro. E. D. Flynn, He Chapter (California), read the following report in full:

SECOND PRELIMINARY REPORT.

We, your Committee on Resolutions, beg to submit this report.

r. Be it resolved by the delegates of the Acacia Fraternity in Eighth Annual Conclave assembled that:

It is the sentiment of this body that the individual chapters of this Fraternity incorporate in their respective Constitution and By - Laws, a section which shall provide for the suspension or expulsion after proper summons and notification, due trial and proper legislation, of any member of an individual chapter for the non-payment of any or all moneys due said chapter and that notification of such suspension or expulsion be sent to the Grand Secretary and to the Secretary of each chapter and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this Conclave.

2. Be it further resolved by tht: delegates of the Acacia Fraternity in Eighth Annual Conclave assembled that :

It is the sentiment of this body that all chapters of the Acacia Fraternity put forth every effort towards the completion of their membership files before the Decennial Conclave in 1914 at Ann Arbor and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this Conclave.

3. Be it resolved by the delegates of the Acacia Fraternity in Eighth Annual Conclave assembled that:

It be the sentiment of this body that each and every chapter of the Acacia Fraternity shall issue a chapter letter at least once a year and that a copy of such letter be mailed to the Grand Secretary, to each Chapter Secretary and to the alumni members of the issuing chapter.

Respectfully submitted, Committee on Resolutions, E. D. FLYNN, Chr., T. F. McCoY, FRED E. HAGAN, L.A. WILSON, w. G. MANN.

Moved by Bro. Carr, Aleph-Aleph (Washington), seconded by Bro. Veness, Tsadhe Chapter (Columbia University), that partial report of Committee of Resolutions be adopted. Motion carried. Report of Grand Council was read by Grand Secretary, Bro. Kilmer:

Brothers:

REPORT OF THE GRAND COUNCIL.

We, the members of the Grand Council, submit the following report and recommendations :

I. We urge a careful study of the recommendations made by this body in the minutes of the last Grand Council meeting as published in the May Bulletin, copy of which is in your hands. We believe the adoption of the suggestion therein noted will make for the advancement and progress of the Fraternity.

2. We report the ratification of the election of the following honorary membera and their enrollment : John Ludenschmitt, Aleph Chapter; Maurice P. Fikes, Aleph Chapter; Charles T. Gallagher, Teth Chapter; Frederic W. Hamilton, Teth Chapter; F. S. Moore, Samehk Chapter; Allen Boulds, Samehk Chapter; William H. Taft, Pe Chapter; John

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M. Berdan, Pe Chapter; J ames R. Cain, Jr., Daleth Chapter; D. D. Jacob s, Samehk Chapter; G. F. Kerper, Samehk Chapter; Thom as H. MacBride, Resh Chapter. Other members have been approved but, no report of initiation being made, their names have not been enrolled.

3· A meet in g of the Grand Council was held at Champaign, Illinois , last April. There need be nothing further noted here, as a fu ll report of its proceedings is given in the May Bulletin.

4· The Grand President appointed three delegates to the Interfraternity Conference : Brothers William Homan, E. F. Humphrey and Roscoe Pound.

5. The vote upon the proposed const ituti onal amendments resulted as follows :

Upon the proposition to amend Section 3, Art icl e II, providing that a member mu st be active one year, the vote stood I3 for and 8 against, 3 not voting. The amendment is therefore rejected. Upon the proposition to amend Section 5, Article II, defining the term "one year" the vote stood I9 for and 3 against and 2 not voting. The amendment is th erefore adop ted.

Upon the proposition t o a mend Section 8, Article III, defining Honorary Member s hip , the vote stood IS for and 7 against and 2 not vot in g . The amendment is therefor e r ei ected.

Upon the proposition to amend Section I , Article V, relating to the change of time and place of holding the Conclave, the vo te stood 2I for, I against and 2 not voting. The amendme nt is therefore adopted ·

Upon the proposition to amend Section I, Article VI , relating to the installing of n ew chapters, th e vo te stood I7 for, 5 again st, 2 not voti ng. The amendment is th erefore adop ted . ·

Upon the proposition to amend Section 2 , Article II, relating to the exclusion of Greek l etter men, the vo te stood IS for, 6 against and 3 not voting. The amendment is therefore rej ected.

6. The Grand Council recommends that Aleph-Beth Chapter be suspended, and asks the Conclave to direct that a full investigation of Aleph-Beth's affairs be made and that the charter, if deemed advisable by the Grand Council, be withdrawn.

7. The Grand Council recommends the following Budget: BUDGET.

B UDGET - Continue d.

Gener a l expens e s oo oo

Gr a n d Co ncl ave ex pe nse 1913 - 1914 3500 00

Sala r y G r a nd S ec r et ary a t $so pe r m o nth 6oo oo

Mi sce ll aneo u s, Ca tal og, S o n g Boo k , etc .

T o tal e s ti ma t e d ex pen ses

. . . $61 30.00 Resp ec tfull y s ubmitted, F RANCIS W . SH EPA RDSON, Gran d Pr esi d en t . Gro E. FRAZ ER , Gran d T rea s ur er. H ARR Y E K ILME R, Gran d S e creta ry

M ov ed by Bro . Fl y nn , He, that the report of Grand Council be accepted and placed o n file and the Budget be turned over to the Auditing Committee , seconded by Bro . Wil so n , N un. Motion carried.

Bro. McCoy, Aleph Chapter (Michigan): Your Committee on Endowment Fund recommend s that the sum of $34.15 be added to the amount now in the Endowment Fund.

Moved by Bro. Jenkin s, Teth, seconded by Bro. Flynn , He , that this recommendation be accepted . Motion carried .

Bro. McCoy, Aleph Chapter, then gave the report of The Journal Committee.

ACA C IA J O URNAL.

Y our committee respectfully submits :

I. That the minutes of the Conclave be put in the first issue of the Jo u RNA L as heretofore.

2 That the JouRNAL shall be issued three times this year, in November, on February rst, and on May rst ; and th a t the chapter editors shall send in their letter s for these numbers of the JO URNAL not later than October roth, January roth , and April Ist , and that delegates n otify their editors immediately upon their return of the date o f the first chapter letter being due

3 . That the subscription price of the JouRNAL shall be $I.oo per year , or fifty cents per single copy for a ll except a ctive members or orders made through the chapter secretaries when the same shall be thirty-five cents per copy.

4· That each active member wh o se per capita tax is paid on December rst, sh a ll be entitled to the N ov ember number free ; and that each active member whose per capita tax is paid on May Ist , shall be entitled to the February and May numbers free.

s . Th a t the chapter secretaries be urged , in their alumni letters or otherwise, to increase the subscriptions of the Jo u RNAL .

6 That each chapter through their correspond·ing secretary send in a group picture of the members of that chapter for publication in the May JouRNAL.

7. That the Bull e tin be discontinued since it has apparently failed of the object it was intended to acc o mpli s h.

T. F. McCov, L . A. WILSON, · H. K. THATCHER

Moved by Bro . Schultz, Pe (Yale University), seconded by Bro. Gross, A yin (Chicago), that the report be adopted .

After thorough di scussion the report of the committee was accepted and a motion made by Jenkins , seconded by Lott, that the office of Editor of THE JouRN AL be established, and that the Grand Council be authorized to appoint the Editor, who shall have charge of the issuance of THE JouRNAL, as voted upon the report of the committee, was defeated.

THE JouRNAL matter was ultimately settled with the adoption of a motion made by Vene ss, that the Grand Secretary, as Editor, appoint four assistant editors and prescribe their duties.

. The Committee reported and the question of publi hing a directory was discussed. It was voted, on motion of Jenkins, seconded by Veness, that the Gra n d Co un ci l p r epare a handbook or catalog of the Fratern ity befo r e the next Con clave, at an expense of not more than $300. Bro. Sc h u l tz read th e r epo r t of the Committee on Song Book:

COMMITTEE ON BOOK.

The Committee on Song Book r ecommends:

r. That the effo r ts of the Grand Cou n c il t o secu r e an Acacia Song Book be hearti l y endorsed.

z. That the represen t at ives of the var iou s chapters here r ep r esented be urged t o do a ll in the i r power i n th e i r i ndiv idua l chapters to secure the success of this enterpr ise. That songs a lr eady in use in va rious chapters be sent as soon as poss ibl e to the committee appointed by th e G r a nd Co u nci l, a n d a ll members with ability i n song writing be urged to beg i n wo r k on n ew songs, and song poems. It is the belief of the committee t h at t h is is o n e o f t he mos t i mporta n t ma tt e r s before the Conclave i n that it will do mo r e t h an a ll el se t o d eve lop Frat e rni ty sen ti men t and spi ri t. S011g B ook Com.mittee,

J. R. ScHULTZ, Chr ., H . L EVANS, R. H. M ovER.

T h e r ep ort wa s accepted and the Grand Council authorized to publish a so n g bo ok.

The Concl av e thereupon adjourned at 9.30 p . m ., to meet again Friday m o rnin g, S eptember r8.

FRIDAY MORNING SESSION.

9 a . m .

The Conclave Committee having been instructed to consider the date for the Conclave in I9I4, recommended as before , June 25 , 26 , 27 . After am e ndment to June 24, 25 and 26, thi s recommendation was on motion adopted .

The q ue s tion of an examination of initiates upon the Ritual was taken up. N o action was taken upon the proposed examination on Acacia history, but it wa s vo ted , on motion of Jenkins, seconded by Mann, that copies of the S entinel' s ex amination be prepared and five sent to each chapter , and that ea ch initiate s hould be re q uired to pa ss this before being allowed to sit in a meeting.

B ro . Polk then moved that Article II, Section 2 , of the Constitution, be amended to read as follows :

M e mb e r s hip in a n y chapter o f Acacia Fraternity shall be by invitati o n , a nd the nam e or n a me s s ubmitt e d a t a st a ted or special meeting before final action . The motion was seconded by Weaver.

The r o ll call s howed the following ballot: Aleph, no; Beth, no ; Gimel, no ; Daleth, no ; He , no; Waw, no; Teth, no; Heth, no; Kaph, a ye ; Yodh, a y e ; Mem , n o ; Lamedth, aye; Nun, aye; Samehk, aye; A yin, no; Pe , aye; Tsadh e, absent; Koph, aye; Resh, aye; Shin , aye; Tav, absent; A leph-Aleph, a ye; Aleph - Beth , absent; Aleph-Gimel, aye; Aleph-Daleth, no.

The vote being eleven for, eleven against, and three not voting, the amendment was lost.

The Committee on Chapters presented the following report, which was taken up by sections:

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CHAPTERS.

Your Committee on Chapters respectfully submits the following recommendations: r. A uniform system of accounting and auditing to be adopted by the Grand Council, at their discretion. G. C. ordered.

2 In case of deferred payments by members to the individual chapters notes shall be taken and in case members absolutely refuse to settle accounts after being given a fair opportunity, they shall be expelled. Other chapters shall receive no ification of such expulsion and the reason therefor.

3· We recommend that chapters do not initiate honorary members until they have been approved by the Grand Council and that a chapter shall have not more than 5 honorary members (at any one time). Chapters having now more than 5 shall not be allowed to initiate more until their number shall have reached 4 or less.

4. The Grand Council shall have power to discipline members of a chapter whose charter has been withdrawn.

5. It shall be the duty of a sister chapter to make inquiry of a sister chapter located at the home of a candidate as to the standing of a candidate in his home town.

6. We recommend that all candidates be instructed as to Acacia history and tradition, etc., prior to their initiation and pass an examination.

7. We recommend that each chapter be required at once to complete the files of its members.

B. We suggest that a longer tenure of membership be urged upon all members .

9. We recommend that as close a relation as possible· be maintained between the house corporation and the active chapter, by electing a part of the officers from the active chapter and the establishment of a custom whereby each new member is required to subscribe for stock in the corporation.

IO. We recommend that the chapter files relafive to alumni be kept and preserved and that the annual banquet be held for them.

I I. We recommend that affiliation to other chapters be urged by all.

12. We recommend that alumni associations be formed and we commend those already formed.

13. We recommend that each chapter be required to issue a:t least once a year, a chapter letter to the alumni.

14. We recommend that each alumni association send a non-voting representative to the Conclave, his expense to be borne by such association.

15 We recommend that the Grand Council or a committee appointed by it, visit and investigate the chapter at N. W. and if in their judgment they see fit, the charter shall be withdrawn.

r6. We recommend that a charter be granted to the chapter at Manhattan, Kansas.

I1. We recommend that the Ritual be followed closely as regards regalia of officers and candidates as well as in wording of the work.

r8. The following have been suggested by members: Uniformity in size and setting of pin.

National Fraternity Jeweler for one buying.

Respectfully submitted, CoMMITTEE.

The sections were thus acted up o n :

1. On motion of Meier, seconded by Groves, it was voted: That the Grand Council in its discretion adopt a uniform accounting system as early as possible.

2. After discussing various incidental motions, the Conclave voted to refer the matter of unpaid dues to the Resolution Commitk!e.

3. On motion of Flynn, seconded by Magatkan, the third was adopted as an expression of Conclave sentiment, but the question of legislating on the matter was referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence.

4- The fourth section was referred to the same committee.

5. This resolution was passed as read.

6. This section was referred to the Resolutions Committee.

7. It was voted: "that each chapter be required at once to complete its membership files."

8. It was voted: "that the chapters endeavor to secure a longer tenure of membership."

g. This section was tabled on motion of Lott, seconded by Jenkins.

IO. It was the sentiment of the Conclave, as expressed in a resolution of McCoy, seconded by Schultz, that the chapter files and records relating to alumni should be carefully kept up to date and preserved, and that the a nnual banquet of the chapter be given in honor of the alumn i

I I. It was voted, on motion of Meier, seconded by Lott, th at the practice of affiliating with the chapter in a schoo l to which a man may change should be encouraged by all chapters.

12. This sect io n was voted as r ead.

13. This section was adopted a s read.

14 It was voted that this Conclave in v it e each a lu mni assoctatwn to send a non-voting representative to the next Conclave, the represent at ive 's expenses t o be borne by such association.

15. It was voted that the Grand Council vis it A l eph-Beth Chapter, or appoint a committee to visit it , a nd in vest igate its condit ion, and, i f in the judgm ent of the Council necessary, suspend the charter.

16. Upon attention being called to the fact that the const it utional requirements had not all been met, and that therefore, it was not in the province of the Conclave to make this recommendation, it was voted, on motion of Lott, that the del egates rep ort the s itu at ion to their respective chapters and have them vote immedi at ely and send a record of the vote to the Grand Vice-president, who shall certify the vote to the Grand Council, and that the Council shall grant th e charter if four-fifths of the votes are favorable.

17. This r eso lution was adopted as read.

The Conclave took a recess from 12 o' clock until 1.30 p. m.

Var ious motions were made relating to the Fraternity badge, all of which were referred to a special committee. This committee reported through Whitcomb as follows:

I. We r ecomme nd that the Hebrew letters be dropped from the pin.

2 We recommend that the equivalent in Egyptian characters be substituted.

J. We recommend that in the naming of chapters the name of the respective colleges or universities be substituted for the present system of Hebrew letters.

It was moved by Lott, seconded by Schultz, that the first recommendation be adopted.

A roll call resulted as follows :

Aye-Aleph, Beth, He, Kaph , Yodh, Mem , Lamedth, Nun, Samehk, Ayin, Pe, Tsadhe, Koph, Resh , Shin, Aleph-Gimel, Aleph-Daleth. No-Gimel, Daleth, Waw, Teth, Heth, Aleph-Aleph.

The second section was lost by a vote of eight to eleven; an amendment substituting Greek letters was defeated seven to sixteen.

The third section was carried unanimously.

A committee appointed to draw the necessary amendme::ms reported as follows, the report being adopted :

COMMITTEE ON CHANGE FROM HEBREW NOMENCLATURE.

Your committee respectfully submits the following as amendments to our Constitution and By-Laws :

1. That Article VI, Section 6, be changed to read as follows: "Each chapter shall be known and designated by the name of the institution at which said chapter is located." .

2. That Section 20 of the By-Laws be changed as follows: By striking out the last four lines beginning with the words "within each of these smaller triangles."

J. Your committee recommends that the Grand Council be given power to make any changes in the Ritual necessitated by the foregoing amendments.

Respectfully submitted, T. F. McCoY, Chr., ]. R. ScHULTz, F. E. Lon.

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After considerable discussion it was voted that the chapters should be urged to make a practice of securing notes for the old bills of delinquent members.

Hogg gave the following report for the Committee on Expenses of Delegates, which was accepted:

Aleph

Beth

He

Waw

It was voted unanimously, on motion of Jenkins, seconded by Carr, that the reports of the Grand Officers be prepared and printed, and that the report of the Grand Council be published with them, and that a copy be furnished each delegate at or before the opening of the Conclave.

It was voted, on motion of Whitcomb, seconded by McCoy, that the Grand Council publish the song presented by Schultz, in behalf of his brother, and that the proper resolutions be spread upon the minutes in regard to the effort of Brother Schultz.

The Grand President promulgated these amendments:

Grand President Shepardson : I announce th a t Section 3, Article II of the Constituti o n which you will find on page 3 of the Constitution, has been amended to read as follows :

"Any student who shall h a Ye been an active member of any chapter may upon graduation or upon severing his connection with the university or college become an alumnus member of such chapter after the expiration of one year, or if he so elect, remain an active member by paying regular dues, provided that he must be an active member at least one calendar year ."

Grand President Shepardson : Article VI , Section I of the Constitution has been amended to read as follows :

"A charte.r f?r a chapter of this Fraternity may be granted by the Grand Council upon the application of twelve or more Master Masons in good standing and members of lodges working under the jurisdicti on of a regular Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons or Ancient Free and Accepted Masons who are students in or members of the faculty of any college or university, after due investigation and favorable report by the Grand Vice -p re s id e nt and a four-fifths fa vo rable vote by a ll chapters in good standing, which f a vorable vote shall be followed by a four-fifths favorable vote of all the delegates convened at the first succeeding r eg ular Grand Concl ave."

A recess was then taken until 5 p. m.

FRIDAY EVENING SESSION.

September 18, 1913.

Meeting called to order by Grand President Shepardson . 5 o ' clock.

REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE.

The Auditing Committee respectfully submits the following report:

This report is incomplete to the extent that some chapters failed to hand in reports of the sums sent in.

The books show a very complete and detailed statement of expenditures and receipts, which the committee wishes to commend.

The committee herewith reports that the books, after a careful examination, are entirely correct, to the best of its belief.

This committee recommends to the Conclave the adoption of the Budget as proposed by the Grand Council.

Respectfully submitted, T. w. VENESS, Lours F. MEIER, E. c. CARR.

Moved by Bro. Schultz, Pe, and seconded by Bro. Whitaker, that report of Audittng Committee be accepted and placed on file.

Jenkins presented the following report from the Committee on Constitutional Amendments:

AMENDMENT TO CoNSTITUTION.

Article IV, Section 5·

In case of the revocation or suspension of the charter of any chapter, the charter, rituals, and records of the chapter shall immediately be placed in the hands of the Grand Secretary. Carried.

AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION.

Article IV, Section 6.

The Grand Council shall have power by unanimous vote to suspend or expel from the Fraternity for conduct bringing discredit or dishonor upon the Fraternity, any member of a chapter whose charter has been suspended or revoked. Due notice of such action shall be sent by the Grand Secretary to each chapter. A member thus disciplined shall have the right to appeal from the action of the Grand Council to the next Grand Conclave, which may reinstate him by a two-thirds vote of the delegates present. In case of an appeal thirty days' notice in writing shall be filed with the Grand Secretary. Provided, however, that if the action of the Grand Council be taken within thirty days of the meeting of a Grand Conclave, the member may appeal either directly to that Conclave or to the next. In case of an appeal and reinstatement by the Grand Conclave, the transportation expenses of the member to and from the Conclave shall be paid from the Grand Treasury. Carried.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

It is the opinion of the Committee on Constitution and Jurisprudence that no change should be made in the laws regarding the election of honorary members.

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This was accepted, on motion of Evans, seconded by McCoy. It is the opinion of the Committee on Constitution and Jurisprudence that a change should be made in the By-Laws regarding the examination of initiates upon Acacia history

It was moved by Jenkins, with Schultz seconding, that this be accepted and the matter be referred to the Grand Council for it to prepare a set of questions. Carried.

That the present Section 5, of Article IV, of the Constitution be numbered 7. Passed.

Resolved : That the Grand Secretary have printed the examination on the Ritual and send five copies to each chapter, and that each chapter require every initiate to pass an examination thereon before being allowed to sit in chapter meetings. Carried.

The following amendment was proposed :

To amend Section 2, of Article II, by making the first word of the Section, "Hereafter"; also by substituting the word "Chosen" instead of "Composed", and adding to the Section : "And who are not already members of a general social fraternity . Furthermore upon joining any general social college fraternity, he shall lose his membership in Acacia."

The Section then to read :

"Hereafter the active members of each chapter shall be chosen entirely of students , members of the faculty and alumni of the university or the college at which it is located, who are Master Masons in good standing, members of a lodge working under the jurisdiction of a regular Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons , vouched for by some member of the chapter, and who are not already members of a general social college fraternity. Furthermore upon joining any general social college fraternity he shall lose his membership in Acacia."

Lours F. MEIER, Daleth Delegate.

Moved by Bro. Meier, Daleth, seconded by Bro. McCoy, Aleph. Bro. Schultz , Pe : I move that the motion be tabled, seconded by Bro. Flynn, He, and also by Bro. Whitcomb, Lamedth.

Grand President Shepardson: Those in favor of laying it on the table, raise your hand. Twelve are in favor of tabling it, eight against it. It is carried, the matter is laid on the table.

On motion, duly made and seconded, it was voted:

That the Grand Council send delegates of the Fraternity to the Interfraternity Conference, to be held at New York the Saturday following Thanksgiving.

The matter of using pledge pins was discussed at length, but no action resulted.

The adoption of the red of the Richmond Rose as the Fraternity color was also discussed, but no action was taken upon the Council's suggestion.

On motion of Mann, seconded by Lott, it was voted that the Conclave approve the wearing of hat-bands showing the Fraternity colors.

It was voted, on motion of Lott, seconded by Veness, that the Grand Council be authorized to prepare before the next Conclave and send to each chapter a set of questions regarding which information is desired as shown by the questions of the delegates.

Lott, Chairman of the Committee on Chapters, moved in behalf of the committee, the adoption of a resolution to amend the By-Laws in order to prevent the initiation of Hebrews . It was seconded by Wilson. The resolution was tabled on motion of Meier.

On motion of Jenkins it was voted that the Grand Council be authorized to make arrangements for securing pins, to designate an official jeweler, and

to enter into a contract with him for the supplying to the Council of all pins for the Fraternity.

Much discussion was had upon the choice of a coat-of-arms. The committee for the correction of these minutes agree that action was taken, but were unable to reach an agreement as to what action, inasmuch as the records and the available notes of the delegates were at variance.

Grand Secretary Kilmer appointed the following a sistant editors of THE JouRNAL: Jenkins, Wilson, McCoy, Flynn.

Grand President Shepardson : The next will be the election of the Grand Officers of the Fraternity.

Bro. Veness, Tsadhe, mpved that President Shepardson be nominated for President, seconded by Bro. Mann, Yodh.

Grand President Shepardson: · I am not at all sure but that the time has come for me to say that you should choose some one else as Grand President. I am a great believer in this Fraternity. I am gratified beyond measure by the increasing spirit, by the evident development of a national spirit. I am gratified beyond measure at these evidences. It will not make any difference to me so far as my feeling is concerned whether I am an officer or not. Hasn't the time come now to elect a President from the Acacia who has arisen from the ranks, hasn't the time come now to choose a President from the alumni to develop the Fraternity along the lines it ought to go?

Bro. Frazer: All those in favor of the motion rise. A rising vote in favor. The election is unanimous.

Grand President Shepardson: The election of Grand Vice-president comes next. I appoint Bro. Moyer, Koph, and Bro. Evans, Resh, to collect the ballots.

Bro. Suter, Heth: I move that we dispense with the balloting for the Grand Secretary and instruct the Grand Treasurer to cast a unanimous ballot. Motion by standing.

Grand President Shepardson: In the election of the Grand Secretary, the balloting be dispensed with and the Grand Treasurer be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot in favor of Secretary Kilmer. Ballot was cast by Grand Treasurer Frazer.

Twenty-three ballots were cast for Grand Vice-president, as follows:

Grand President Shepardson: I declare Bro. Frazer elected as Grand Vice-president.

The balloting for Grand Treasurer resulted as follows: R. C. Fay, IS; A. A. Jenkins, I; H. S. Villars, 4; T. W. Veness, 2. Brother Fay was declared elected. . Brother Frazer re-installed Brother Shepardson as Grand Prestdent, who thereupon installed Brother Frazer as Grand Vice-president, Brother Fay as Grand Treasurer and Kilmer as .Grand

The Committee on Resolutions presented tts report, whtch was acted on as follows:

RESOLUTIONS.

I. Be it resolved by the delegates of the Acacia Fraternity m Eight Annual Conclave assembled that:

We express in this manner our appreciation of the successful efforts of Lamedth Chapter in the entertainment of the visiting delegates and brothers and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this Conclave.

2. Be it further resolved by the delegates of the Acacia Fraternity in annual Conclave assembled that:

We heartily recommend the fraternal spirit displayed by Brothers Eckblaw and Tanquary on their journey to the far north, and that we extend to them our sincere wishes for successful voyage and safe return, and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be mailed to Brothers Eckblaw and Tanquary and a copy thereof be spread upon the minutes of this Conclave.

3. Be it resolved by the delegates of the Acacia Fraternity in Eighth Annual Conclave assembled that:

The gratitude of the Acacia Fraternity be expressed in the strongest terms for the untiring and continued labors of our Grand President, Francis W. Shepardson, in the preparation of a complete history of the Fraternity to date, and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this Conclave.

4· Be it resolved by the delegates of the Acacia . Fraternity in Eighth Annual Conclave assembled that:

We express our appreciation of the services of our Grand Secretary, Harry E. Kilmer, in with the membership records of the Acacia Fraternity, and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this Conclave.

s. Be it resolved by the delegates of the Acacia Fraternity in Eighth Annual Conclave assembled that:

We extend a vote of thanks to Brother F. H. Landrum, of Waw Chapter, for the token of friendship and brotherly love presented to the delegates and grand officers of the Acacia Fraternity, and be it further resolved that a copy of this vote of thanks be sent to the brother and a copy spread upon the minutes of this Conclave.

Respectfully submitted, Committee on Resolutions, E. D. FLYNN, Chr., T. F. McCoY, L. A. WILSON, w. G. MANN, FRED E. HAGAN.

Unanimously adopted.

SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED BY BROTHER FLYNN.

1. Be it resolved by the delegates of the Acacia Fraternity in Eighth Annual Conclave assembled that:

A vote of thanks be given to Brother W. E. Schultz, of Pe Chapter, for his efforts in giving to the Fraternity a new song and for his work in conjunction with the song book.

Moved for adoption by Carr; seconded by Jenkins. Adopted.

2. Be it resolved by the delegates of the Acacia Fraternity in Eighth Annual Conclave assembled that:

It is the sentiment of this Conclave that chapters should be discouraged from placing their chapter delegates under binding instructions, we feeling that conditions of the Fraternity as a whole are better understood in the discussion of the Conclave than by the individual chapters.

Be it further resolved that both these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this Conclave.

Respectfully submitted, COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.

Moved by Lott to adopt seconded by Jenkins. Adopted.

At seven o'clock the Grand Conclave adjourned sine die.

COMMENT ON MINUTES BY CLERK OF CORRECTI0 1 S.

The minutes of the 1913 Conclave printed in this Journal are not offered by the committee and certainly not by the Clerk as a model record They do not express our opinion as to what such a record shou ld contain or omit. The material to work with was in such shape that our only course was to try to agree upon the actual accomplishment of the Conclave and to express this as nearly as possible in the words of the Conclave. In most instances we cou ld from the transcript and our own notes determine the votes taken, and where possible we used the actual re solutions and motions as offered.

Delegates' reports and speeches upon motions are noticeably absent, not because we believe they have no place in the minutes, but because it seemed wiser to print none rather than to make a speech out of our memories and foist it upon an innocent delegate. The record could not possibly show the true opinions as expressed in the Conclave. We think the reports of chapters s hould be fairly and thoroughly summarized and digested and that the discussion should be printed as fully as possible, subject to the editing in a careful and impartial manner by the Secretary. Such work could not be done with the transcript offered, certainly not by a committee having so little time as this had. It offers the result of its efforts not as a model, but as a substitute record, in the belief that in it the Fraternity can have a fairly accurate account of all that was done by the Conclave at Madison.

A. A. JENK1NS.

R. L. Stevenson.

"'Tis a fine thing to smart for one's duty; even in the pangs of it there is contentment."

"The salary in a-ny business under heaven is not the only, nor indeed the first, question. That you should contiHue to exist is a matter for your own consideration ; but that your business should be first honest, and second useful, are points in which honour and morality are concerned."-The· Morality of the Profession of Letters.

"Reading maketh a man full; conference a ready man; and writing, an exact man."

"Burns, too proud and honest not to work, continued through all reverses to sing of poverty with a light, defiant note. Beranger waited till he was himself beyond the reach of want before writing the Old Vagabond, or Jacques. Samuel Johnson, although he was very sorry to be poor, 'was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty' in his ill days. Thus it is that brave men carry their crosses, and smile with the fox burrowing in their vitals."-Familiar Stt{dies of Men and Books.

. A WORD TO CHAPTER OFFICERS.

GEORGE E. FRAZER, Gran d President.

At this time the members of the Fraternity are starting out on a new ye ar of work and opportunity. At the Conclave at Ann Arbor we celebrated the conclusion of ten years of progress. Those of us that were fortunate to attend the banquet at the close of the Conclave were greatly impressed with many tangible , and intangible, evidences of fraternity . sentiment, fraternity unit y, fraternity zeal, and fraternity opportunity.

I shall not attempt to picture the substantial growth of the Fraternity, or its promising future, or the great fundamental ideals towards which each chapter and each member should strive . I would like to call the attention of each member to certain matter of fact things that we must have always in view, and that it is especially important to review at the beginning of each school year . _

The great problem before each chapter of the Fraternity at this time is the selection of new members . Our membership rapidly changes. Many of our initiates remain in the chapter house and within the chapter influence but a comparatively short time. We must take care to initiate men that are worthy of the traditions of our chapters; that are worthy of the opportunities that they are to have Conservatism within the fraternity life can be shown nowhere to better advantage than in the selection of new members. Ho wever pressed a chapter may be for men, no chapter can afford to initiate an idler , a drunkard, a gambler, or a man devoid of courtesy, kindliness and generosity. It is better to have few men , than to add to membership by the initiation of a man who will not share the burdens of fraternity life. It is entirely consistent with a conservative policy in the selection of new men that the chapter should be aggressive in its search for material. During the first crowded weeks of the university opening, it is more difficult to find men of the right sort tlian it is to find men who are looking for fraternity advantages without thought of the fraternity sacrifices. And the chapter must not make the mistake of excluding the aggressive man. 'iVithout such men, real progress soon becomes impossible.

The beginning of the school year is one of the best times in the school year during which to awaken the interest of alumni. The very best method of securing the right sort of alumni interest is to employ alumni in the search for new material, and to ask the advice of alumni in decisions as to eligibility of proposed initiates. The thoughts of the college graduate turn collegeward during the early fall. Get out your chapter magazine; get out your chapter alumni letter s; give your alumni a taste of the good fellowship of the opening of the year .

Start the new year right with respect to all the courtesies of the chapter house. Do not allow the brothers to fall into habits of indolence and discourtesy and carelessness during the fall ru sh. The etiquette of the table; the necessity for house rules; the duty of brothers in the care of the house; all of these problems can be arranged satisfactorily if they are taken in hand at the very beginning of the school year. The Venerable Dean who waits for factional dispute s and for evidences of carelessness and selfishness before he organizes the chapter life will surely face weeks of petty annoyances.

During the early months of the school year there will be frequent chapter meetings. Us e these meetings to good advantage in the presentation to the whole chapter of the facts about the business life of the chapter.

Every active member should be fully informed as to the financial arrangements and financial obligations of his chapter. It is not enough that two or three of the seniors should discuss such problems. If a minority is to be permitted to assume the burdens of financial management, let it be a minority composed of new men, for this will at least insure some future continuity of financial management.

The chapter Secretary should start the year with a firm determination to keep the correspondence and records in close harmony with the requirements of our Grand Secretary. The chapter Steward and the chapter Treasurer should insist from the beginning of the year upon the prompt collection of dues and board bills. The chapter should start paying its bills both to the National Fraternity and to local merchants fully and promptly from the beginning of the year.

During the present school year, there will be a very considerable opportunity for the discussion of national policies. Each chapter is to vote upon a complete revision of the national Constitution and of the national By-Laws. It is my personal belief that the Constitution and By-Laws as proposed should be adopted with unanimity. At the same time I urge a careful consideration of our laws. Let us have harmony, but let us have a harmony based upon a full comprehension of the work of each of our chapters. Each chapter should start out the new school year with a financial program-a budget of estimated revenue contrasted with estimated expense. The Venerable Dean should keep the chapter within the budget. Let the budget be well understood by each of the members of the chapter. See to it that each initiate is given not only the ritual in perfect presentation, but also a complete understanding of the financial problems of the chapter. Each chapter sh,ould start the year with a program for the fraternity year. Let the chapter agree upon its social occasions far enough in advance so that arrangements may be understood by ·every member, and so that every member may faithfully undertake to give the social program his complete support. Each chapter should plan at least one occasion during the year when a delegation from a sister chapter is to be entertained. The National Fraternity greatly needs interchapter fellowship and interchapter understanding. Start now on your plans for a homecoming for your alumni, and on your plans for the celebration of Founders' Day next May.

I have outlined a very considerable amount of work. I believe in work. The members in each chapter who have the most to do are the men who will find time to write to the National Officers; to correspond with brothers in other chapters; to advance new ideas, new plans, new methods, new enthusiasm for the up-building of their chapter.

The new year is yours. The mistakes and errors and injustices of preceding years are matters of record for those who care to hunt for them. The victories, the substantial progress., the growing list of interested alumni, the secure place in your college community-the well established chapter home; these are your assets. Select your new men carefully and energetically; arouse alumni interest; establish firmly the customs and traditions of the chapter home; plan carefully your financial program for the year; interest each member in the financial obligations of the chapter; outline a program of fraternity effort; make it impossible for any member of the chapter to excuse himself from fraternity functions on the ground of unforeseen conflicting engagements; get in touch with the National Officers; let them know your problems. If you do these things carefully and thoroughly from the beginning of the year, you may feel certain that the chapter life will be happy and that the chapter will make progress.

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THE JOURNAL.

H ARR Y E. K I LMER , Grand S ecr e tar y.

TH E JouRN AL is our repre sentative to the world at large and it is one ·of the chief means of communication within the Fraternity . It is, th erefore , very essential that THE Jo u RNA L serve in these important capac itie s. effectively and efficiently. The office of Grand Editor has been created and Brother Mann has as sumed charge of the office. Brother M ann will gi v e u s splendid serv ice. He will do his full part to make TH E Jo u RNA L what it should be. I venture to state that he will make TH E Jo u RN AL a creditable repre sentative of the Fraternity to the world at large. He must have some help to accomplish this, but we feel sure that w ith his energy and ability he will win . We all want to do our part to help him . Brother Mann will no doubt find the great burden of his work in making THE JouRN AL an effective means of corninunicanon within the Fraternity . To our mind this is the great work of THE JouRNAL . No one man , no matter how energetic a nd whole-hearted he may serve, can accomplish this end. He must have the help of the chapters, the chapter officers and alumni. We all want a better JouRN AL. We want it alive and v ital. One man or a few men may keep it alive for a time, but THE JoURNAL will in the end be . just what we all make it. If we see to it that it voices the views of our chapters, that it gives live news of the active and alumni members of our chapter, then we may rest assured that THE JouRNAL under the editorship of Brother Mann will be a great success. Let us all strive to make it a success

THE PIN.

Under the direction of the 1913 Conclave the Grand Council has entered into a contract with J. F. Newman as official jeweler. All pins should be ordered through this office. Eight dollars for each pin should accompany the order. We forward the money with a warrant in favor of the jeweler to Brother Woodward. Brother Woodward then forwards the order with a check to the official jeweler. ·

If for any reason you are not satisfied with the pin , please notify this office, giving your reasons in full. It is the hope of the Grand Council that the members will receive these pins of as good quality as formerly and at no advance in price and leave a substantial revenue for the Fraternity. This plan has been adopted by several other fraternities and is pronounced a success. We should give it a fair trial and then we can change if we deem it advisable. ·

The following re g is tration figures throw into prominence the peculiar position in whtch one o f our chapters does its work. It is not on ly in the heart of our largest city but also is in an instituti o n having more people than many of the towns where othe; chapters are loc ated. The relativel y small college enro llm e nt is significant when we rem embe r the lack of cohesion among th e different departments of the Eastern universities, for it means that as contra s ted w ith nine hundr ed und ergraduates in arts there are thousands of men in the University, of a different age with different socia l opportunities, and working with a different aim-the activ e p;eparation for speedy entrance into their special life task.

COLUMBIA STILL LEADS.

1914 Registration, Including Summer Session , Likely to Reach 14,000. New York, Oct. 6.-Following a meeting of the Columbia trustees It Is announced that the university's enrollment this year, including the summer session, w!ll probably reach 14.000 As above 500 0 were registered for summer work, the winter enro llm e nt will be abo ut 9000. Th e registration figures for the different schools , with the gain or lose as compar ed with th e last yea r, are as follows : College, 905, a gain of 169 ; l aw, 468, a loss of 1; medicine, 383, a gain of 43; engineering, 470, a loss of 2 09; architecture, 110. a lo ss of 41; music, 2. a loss of 13; journalism. 139. a gain of 32; political science, 1089, a loss of 1; summer session, 5590, a gain of 1000; Teachers' College, 1728, a gain of 200; Barnard, 677, a gain of 70; pharmac)•, 483, a gain of 40, and extension tea c hing, 1648 , a gain of 300.

The great expansion of a university where another Acacia chapter is thriving is shown in the Annual Register of Chicago University. Seven hundred and fortytwo students enrolled in the opening year, 1892-93. In 1902-03 there were 4450, and last year 7301 registered. This, too , is a metropolitan university, very strong in its graduate professiona l schools.

In contrast with Chicago and Columbia, Cornell shows a very heavy registration which includes 4753 undergraduates in the various colleges.

Ohio State reports an increase of 500, which brings her total to 4051, not including the new school of agriculture opening in October . Harvard has this year her biggest freshman class, and also her largest total. The large number of schools that report exceptional attendance is remarkable considering the general conditions of business.

It i always with surprise that anyone notices Princeton's size. This is her record year-16o6 students-certainly a small number in view of Princeton's deserved fame.

In the light of the discussion at Ann Arbor upon the manner and time of rushing, the following note regarding rushing rules at a small eastern university is of some importance . This problem is not limited to .small or Eastern scho<;>ls. At Harvard the important clubs have agreed that no man ts to be approached unttl the sophomore year. The fraternities have not yet acted.

COLGATE UNIVERSITY.

Fraternities Pledging Men Under a New System-Notes.

Hamilton, N. Y.. Oct. 9. (Speclal)-Pursuant to the action taken by the PanHellenic Council last June, the new fraternity rushing rules are now In effect at Hamilton and pledging of freshmen began yesterday. All but two of the fraternities have accepted Its r egu lations and the new system Is being given a thorough trial.

According to the provisions of this system there Is to be no active rushing of freshmen, or other new men, until the first Thursday after the opening of college, and no pledging until a week from that date, that Is, two weeks after the opening of college.

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The fraternities shall refrain from attempting to influ e nc e or bias a n y on e in regard to the fraternity question, a n d especially sh a ll not talk in a dire c t personal manner about pl e dging dur i ng th e first w ee k of co ll ege. During the following week, organized rushing may done, but no pl e dging shall be done until after the second week.

The larger universities , especially the state universities, have long been ing to carry the benefits of education beyond the campus, but Pennsylvama and Oregon are going farther than the others; the former, by establishing branch evening schools hundreds of miles from Philadelphia; the latter by competing with the International Correspondence Schools. We wonder whether the Oregon scheme is a cause of result of the initiative and referendum and other political novelties for which the state is famed.

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON.

Sixty-Eight Correspondence Courses to Be Given This Year.

Eugene, Ore ., Sept 28.-Sixty-elght correspondence courses, free except for the nominal fee that covers postage, but Intended mainly for resident s of Oregon, are ol'fered by the state university this year, to the people who cannot leave their regular work to attend a high er educational Institution. These sixty-eight courses are In the following subj ect s : Architecture, bird study, botany, debating, economics, education, electricity, Engli sh , geology , German , history , home biology, journalism, literature, mathematics, phil oso phy , physics, psychology , sociology.

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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

New Extension Schools-700 Students Taking Evening Work.

Philadelphia, Oct. 10 (Special)-Two new schools have been added this year to the extension department of the Evening School of Finance and Commerce of the University of P e nns y l v ania. Th e y are located In H a rrisburg, Pa., and Reading, Pa. The schools In, Scranton and Wllkesbarre, which were In operation last year, will be continued. It lo ok s as though the enrollment at each of thes e would exceed 350 men. The evening s c hool at the university has more than 700 students.

The opening of class room correspondence courses in business methods, at the University of Washington, to the business men of Seattle, caused a registration that dispelled any doubt of the desire on the part of the practical men of affairs, to receive a college training .

The following excerpt from an editorial in the Boston Transcript upon law and law schools suggests how high a position in conservative Boston opinion has been won by Brother Roscoe Pound during the four years he has been at Harvard.

In August Professor Pound was convocation orator at the University of Chicago. He is now delivering at Boston Masonic Temple a series of lectures on Masonic Philosophy.

"Now have come a hundred new needs incident to the change which has swept over society during recent d e c a des. Th e n eed is more pressing than ever for constructive work in the law schools and for the assimilation of what the social sciences h ave to teach. We nee d such men as Profess or Pound, who can tear the heart from t wen ty c en turies of jurisprudence and th e n perform the miracle of making that heart b ea t again, sending n ew lifeblood Into the legal systems of today.

By the b y , It was Pound who said, In one of his lectures at the Lowell Institute, 'Our Impatient reformers should demand, not recall of judges and of judicial decisions, but recall of law teachers and of juristic thinking.' It was safe for him to say it. Judging from its appointments In the past and its appointments in the present, Harvard hasn't the kind of law teachel' who needs recall.''

This is the sort of work that is extremely dangerous to fraternities, particularly in the state universities . We should 'be less grieved if Acacia were at the other end of the list.

POOR SHOWING BY FRATERNITIES.

Some Interesting Scholarship Statistics from the University of Washington.

Seattle , Wash ., Sept. 28.-Much anxiety has been caused by the announcement from the r eco rd er 's office at the University of Washington of the relative scholastic standIngs of fraternities , sororities and the four principal and representative non-fraternity organization s . The Ind epe nde nts failed to top the list , as many had suppose d they would, but neither did th ey lag b e hind the r e st of the campus organizations. Alpha Upsilon, a local sorority, leads the list of women's organizations and Is, In fact , the only one listed on the campu s with a schola s tic standing above •'B" grade. All but one of the women's organi zations had grades above "C," while but seve n of the men's clubs and s oci eties attai n ed th at mark , f o urte e n oth ers doing no better than "D.'' Following is th list of th e fraternities and sororiti es , in the order in which they stood last year scholastically: Men's Organi za tions, C Grade-Th e ta Chi (local), Delta Upsilon, Lewis Hall {nonfrat e rnity) Beta (local). Delta Kappa Epsilon. D Grade-Phi Kappa (local), Phi Phi (local), Delta C hi, Th eta Delta Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Sigma, Beta Theta PI, Campus Lodge (non-fraternity), Alpha Tau Omego, Phi Delta Theta. Sigma Chi, PI

Kappa Alph,a, Alpha Phi Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Nu. Sigma Alpha. Epsilon, Acacia. Women s Orgamzat1ons. B Grade-Alpha Upsilon (local). C. Grade-Alpha Phi Kapp!'L Kappa Gamma, Sigma Kappa, Kappa Alpha Theta, Chi Omega, Hyland Hall soronty), Clark H!!-ll (non-sorority), Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha. XI Delta, Phi Beta Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Chi Omega. D Grade-Delta Gamma.

. The seniors at the. University of Oregon have abolished the senior sombrero whtch for so many years has adorned the heads of the members of the older class.

"If the students will refrain from lawless acts downtown I believe the parade next Saturday will be a good thing," said Chancellor Strong of University of Kansas, when speaking of "the ·night shirt parade." ' and instructors of the University of Pennsylvania were m European ctties when war was declared. Five members are now serving in European arms . Two are in the French army, two with the Austrians and one an instructor in the French department, is fighting for the Kaiser. '

The University of Washington has established a Fishery School the first 111 America. Three students have registered. '

The following is a sketch of the early rules governing Harvard students: Probably few undergraduates know, says the Crimson, under what strict rules the students of Harvard College in early times were governed. From a number of the oldest recot-ds and orders of the college Overseers, many of them partly destroyed, Albert Mathews, '82, who is editing the history of Harvard before 1750, for the Massachusetts Historical Society, has collected and summarized the laws which a student had to obey at that period.

In the first place, no one was permitted to go to another town without the "License of ye Overseers," nor could he be a membel' of the "Artillery or traine-Band." About l 650 sevet·al special orders of the college were passed: "No Scholar shall buy, sell, or exchange anything to ye value of six - pence without ye allowance of his parents, guardians or tutors. The scholars shall never use their Mother-tongue except in public exercises of oratory, where they are called to make them in English. No scholar whatevel', without the acquaintance and leave of ye President and his Tutor, shall be present at any of ye Pub like Civil meetings or Concourse of people! nor shall he take tobacco unless permitted by ye President with ye consent of his parents OI' guardians, and on good reason first given by a Physitian and then in a sober and private manner." Another rule was made providing punishment for the Seniors' practice of sending the freshmen on errands, and othei'Wise making use of them On Saturday evening, the students were required to retire to their chambers at sunset, "and not necessarily leave them," and for all disorders they were severely punished, sometimes expelled. ,

Everyone was requiFed to be in his room, studying, by nine o'clock and "to this End, the Tutors frequently visited theii' chambers (especially in their several districts) after nine, and at other studying times, to quicken them to their business."

Further, "No scholar shall unnecessarily frequent any tavern or Victualling House in Cambridge to eat or Drink there without leave from ye President or one of the Tutors. Immediately after this order was repealed a number of eating houses, probably exceeding the present multitude, sprang up and did an excellent business.

At this period there is also mentioned the first public debates. "The Undergraduates shall in their course declaim publicly in the Hall, in one of ye three Learned Languages. The Senior Sophisters shall dispute publicly in the Hall once a week till the tenth of March. Resident Bachelours shall dispute in the Hall once a fortnight (from ye tenth of September to the tenth of March) on such questions as the President directs." The celebrations at these events caused the following order : "If any scholar be guilty of drunkenness, he shall be fined 5 shillings and make a public confession. No undergraduate shall keep by him brandy, rum, or any other distilled spirituous liquors; nor shall he use any such mixt drinks as punch or Flip."

THINGS THAT COUNT.

Not what we have, but what we use, Not what we see, but what we chooseThese are the things that mar or bless The sun of human happiness.

The things nearby, not things afar, Not what we seem, but what we areThese are the things that make or break, That give the heart its joy or ache.

Not what seems fair, but what is true, Not what we dream, but good we doThese are the things that shine like gems, Like stars in fortune's diadems.

Not as we take, but as we give, Not as we pray, but as we liveThese are the things that make for peace, Both now and after time shall cease. -From the Outlook.

SECTION

IDEALS OF MASONRY.

The High Ideals of the Craft in Germany are clearly outlined in the following eloquent discourse delivered by Prince Ferdinand, Grand Master of Brunswick, upon the occasion of the initiation of his youngest son:

"I congratulate you on your admission to the most ancient, most re sp ectable society in the universe. To you the mysteries of Masonry are ab o ut to be revealed. A brighter sun never shed its lustre on your eyes. At thi s awful moment, prostrate at this holy altar, shudder at every crime, have confidence in every virtue. May this reflection inspire you with noble sentiment s; with religious abhorrence of whatever degrades. May you feel the elevation of soul which invites to the practice of piety and virtue. These are the wishes of a father-brother conjoined. Of you the greatest hopes are entertained; let not expectations be deceived. You are the son of a Mason who glories in the profession, and for your seal and attachment, your silence and conduct, your father pledges his honor. This moment you owe to me a second birth. Should your conduct in life correspond with the principles of Masonry, my remaining years will be filled with joy. The bravest and best have been our patrons. The greatest geniuses sprang from our order. The most illustrious characters laid the foundation of her amiable qualities.

" Swear, my son, you will be a faithful Mason. I centre the affection of a parent in the name of brother and friend. May your heart be susceptible of true love and burn with the same zeal as your sire. Convince that you deserve our favors by never forgetting the ties which bind you to honor and justice. Recall this ceremony of your initiation. Learn to bridle your tongue, to govern your passions, that you may truly say: 'In becoming a Mason I became a man.'

" If I live to reap the fruits of the day's labor my life shall be rounded out, my happiness complete, and I will close my eyes in peace, expiring .with1Ut a moan in the arms of Masonry."

The Mark of a Mason, which serves as a means of identification for some men and the means by which Masons are judged by others, is the only mark of a Mason by which some Masons .can be known and judged. The emblems should serve the more noble, glorious, and worthy purpose of reminding every Mason of his duties to God, his fetlowman and himself. A profession of belief in the Masonic lessons, while greatly to be admired, does not mark you as a Mason. Exemplary living, of the lessons learned, in your daily life as you associate with men who observe your every action is to stamp you as a Mason . Every philosophy founded with the inten- tion of lifting up and bettering mankind has been based upon the brotber·. hood of man. A true demonstration of the Masonic teachings is one method

of proving our belief in the Fatherhood of God, of marking one elf as a Mason. Ca reful Ch ri st ian living, upright and honest dealings, cheerful and ready assistance with helpful brotherly advice will do away with the necesity of " The Ma rk of a fason," for you will be marked as a fa on.

Ministers of the Gospel are very active in the Masonic Lodge. The record s show a membership of some thirty thousand who are of thi calling.

What goes on in the Masonic Lodge rooms? To the uninitiated thi ha s long been a source of wonderment. The following Grand Lodge rulings will serve in a way to enlighten the curious.

The Arkansas juri sdiction recently pas ed a resolution making it a Masonic offense for any Mason to s ign or circulate a petition for a aloon in Arkansas.

The Grand Lodge of Illinois ha s declared as follow :

"A lodg e ca nnot appropriate any of it s funds to maintain a baseball club , composed of mem ber s o f the lodge.

"I t is entirely improper for a lodge to hold a picnic on S und ay, at which a program of games a nd athletic sport s of any kind i s carried out.

" It is not permissible to hold dances in a Mason ic lodge r oom.

"T hat a ll begging, or so liciting donations, contributions, the purchase of tickets for fairs, parties, contests, etc. , as well as advertising in tickets, bulletin s and programs, by lodges, should be strictly forbidden. .

" That shady entertainment and conduct on the part of a Masonic gathering which i s incon sis tent with the best traditions, highe st ideal s of the Fraternity shall receive prompt and certain punishment."

Why worry about what goes on in the Masonic lodge rooms when such actions come out of them?

What makes a Mason? Is it that you have joined a lodge , appear in public processions, u se Masonic words and phrases? You may do all the se and yet not be a Mason at heart To be a Mason you must act and live. Your character must be above reproach; you must be honorable, charitable, straight in your dealings, visit the sick, comfort the sorrowing, relieve the distre sse d, bury the dead. Brethren, it would be well if we would frequently ask ourselves: "W hat makes a Mason?"

-Masonic Monthly.

A number of our brethren engaged in the teaching profession at Kiaochao, China, have formed a lodge working under the Grand Lodge of Hamburg.

MASONIC FACTS.

There are ninety-eight Sovereign Grand Lodges, fifty-one of which are located in the United States, eighteen claim direct descent from the Grand Lodge of England, and seventy work in the English language.

German Masons are controlled by eight Grand Lodges.

The Grand Lodge of Cuba owns its own building in which there are three large lodge rooms and offices for the officers.

An English-speaking Grand Lodge has been established in the Philippines.

A Grand Lodge has been established in the Republic of Panama.

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The largest Commandery in the world is Mary No. 36, of Philadelphia, which musters over one thousand seven hundred Sir Knights ; Royal Arch Chapter is Providence No. r, of Providence, R. I., with one thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven Companions; and the largest Shrine is Medinah, of Chicago, which has eleven thousand and forty-eight Nobles following her standard.

There are forty thousand Masons with a vote in the Grand Lodge of England.

Brazil has a membership of fifty-two thousand nine hundred and twelve in her five hundred and six Masonic Lodges.

The British Colonies of Australia and New Zealand now claim fifty thousand Masons.

Switzerland has twenty-four lodges.

There are one million two hundred and fifty thousand Masons in the United States, one hundred and eighty thousand of which are located in New York, sixty-five thousand six hundred and ninety-seven in Massachusetts.

There are one hundred and lodges in Chicago with an aggregate membership of fifty thousand.

The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania is the oldest in the United States.

The oldest building in America erected for Masonic purposes is located in Richmond, Va. It has been in continuous use for one hundred and twenty-five years, and has held such Masons as Washington, LaFayette, John Marshall and Edmond Randolph.

Russia is the only civilized nation in the world thaf prohibits Freemasonry. John Schwartz, a teacher of philosophy at the University of Moscow in 1750, was really the father of Russian Freemasonry.

Alexander the First issued an order in r822 suppressing "all secret socities to which Masons . belonged." Since that time there has been no Freemasonry in Russia.

There have been but few men made Masons under age. George Washington, Joseph Warren, Ale:l}ander Hamilton, James Monroe, Gilbert De Lafayette, Andrew Jackson, Richard Montgomery and Henry Clay are some of the exceptibns.

Iowa has the honor of having established a National Society of Masonic Research. The movement was started by Deputy Grand Master George L. Schoonover. England has, in the Lodge "Quatuor Coronati" of London and the Research Lodge No. 2429 of Leicester, organizations of similar nature which maintain their own publications the same as the National Society of Masonic Research intends to do. A lodge which is engaged in the gathering of information in the domain of Masonic Knowledge has been formed at Wellington.

There were ninety thousand men Masons in America last year.

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GUY HAROLD DUNN

Venerable Dean Iowa City Chapter

Guy Harold Dunn was born at Charles City, Iowa , January I, I89o, and died at Iowa City September IS, I9I4, at the age of twenty-four years, eight months and fourteen days.

He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dunn of this city. He is survived by his parents, one sister, Iva , two brothers, Glen of Perry, Iowa, and Garth of Earlville. His younger sister, Merle, preceded him in death September 26, I9I 1. He moved with his parents to Earlville, Iowa, in I89S· He was a graduate of the Earlville Public School, being a member of the Class of I9o6. In I907 he attended school at Ames, taking a short course in dair ying. In the fall of I908 he entered Upper Iowa University at Fayette, studying liberal arts for three years and graduating from the normal course of that institution.

Afte:- teaching one year in the Earlville High School, as principal, he resumed his school work at Iowa State University, taking up the study of law.

During his first year there he became a member of the Acacia Fraternity, an organization of college men who are Master Masons. Later he was elected president of the Chapter. He received the appointment as assistant to the Law Librarian at the beginning of his second year. He was a member of the M. E. Church and also a member of Square Lodge No. 286, A. F. and A.M.

He left Earlville Friday morning, September I Ith, for Iowa City to take up the work of his senior year "in law. He was taken severely ill Friday afternoon and submitted to an operation for appendicitis at 9 P. M. of the same day. His condition was encouraging immediately following the operation, but complications set in which led to his death at 5 A. M. the following Tuesday.

His mother went to him as soon as news of the operation was received. His father was called the evening previous to his death.

The funeral services were held at the M. E. Church in this city Thursday afternoon, Rev. Carl W. Skinner conducting.

The schools of the city were dismissed at noon and the high school students attended the obsequies. The Masonic ritualistic service was held at the grave. Burial was made in Fairview Cemetery.

"To Thee, my God, to Thee I call! Whatever weal or woe betide, By Thy command I rise or fall, In Thy protection I confide."

G. M. GERDENIER, 33°' In "Proceedings of Supreme Council."

We Believe

We believe in God Creator, Father of all human souls; Not a Monarch watching nature while her wondrous plan unfolds, But the Spirit of our Father, and the Moulder of our frames, Loving each as one begotten, calling all by separate names; In the Spirit of our Father, we believe.

We believe the blessed Jesus loved divinely and suffered much, That our God might teach His children with a close and human touch, Drawing us by cords so tender up the pathway where he trod, Till we fall like weeping children in the yearning arms of God; In our King, and Priest, and Prophet, we believe.

We believe the Holy Bible is reliable and true; What therein the Lord commanded He will strengthen us to do; Not in prophets, kings, and teachers, nor in wise men do we trust If they teach us words of wisdom where they found them there we must; In the Word of Inspiration, we believe.

Vve believe the holy angels hover 'round us all the way, Each commi ssiqned by the Father, clouds of messengers are they, To the Throne our sorrows carry, and return on tireless wings, Bringing to each heart dispatches, from the Palace of the King, In the ministry of angels, we believe.

We believe in 1i fe eternal; trees, and flowers, and drops of rain, Live and die, and decomposing, live and die and live again; Yet we think that wondrous changes shall connect this perfect sphere, Life is bigger, greater, grander, than this segment painted here; In the coming life eternal, we believe.

We believe in sweet co_mmunion with the saints, in praise and prayer, We believe that in forgiving we rise upward stair by stair; We believe in Godly striving, we believe in contrite tears; We believe that in believing we shall live through endless years, And the key to life is only-We believe.

-October Quarterly Bulletin Grand Lodge of Iowa, A . F. and A.M.

EDITORIALS.

"The Directory of The Acacia Fraternity, 1914,'' is off the press and is a book of which every Acacian may be justly proud. Bro. Kiln.er spent an unlimited amount of time and labor in compiling and arranging the data and the result merits our praise. The member;, are arranged alphabetically according to chapters, as well as to nati ons, states and cities. The addresses of the men who associated with you through four years of college should prove of inestimable value to you in renewing o ld tie s . The names and locations of brothers in your community should bring you into closer relationship. Get a Directory and use it in furthering the interests of the Fraternity by looking up the brothers nearest you. You will be surprised at the number of good Acacians living all about you, unknown for the want of a Directory.

An Unprecedented Condition of scho la stic standing is reported in the clippin g from one of Seattle's newspaper s quoted under "College Reports." A lth o u gh most of our men are in the professional schools, where examinations are most difficult and grades the lowest , Acacia should rank above all othe r fraternities. Our members are older than the average fraternity men and being older should be more studious, shou ld set an example for the younger students. Believing that the alumni and the chapters should know just where each chapter stands, in relati on to the other fraternities, and with regards to her sister chapters, the editor has written to the recorders of the various universities where Acacia has chapters and will publish in the next issue of THE JouRN AL The Scholarship Standings of the Chapters.

The Recognition of Alumni Chapters by granting their delegates the rights of the floor is a step in the right direction. The Alumni Chapters should play an important part, not only in the Conclave, but in the particular city in which they are located. A complete set of records of the Acacians in their community should make frequent "get-togethers" possible , strengthening Acacian acquaintanceships. A notice of the removal of a brother to another Alumni Chapter's jurisdiction should preceed him to his new home. Brethren, call a meeting, set a regular time and place for dining at least once a month, notify THE JouRN AL, and we will start a "V\There and When Acacians Meet" page. Others will make it a point to join you and there will spring up a fraternal and brotherly spirit which could not be awakened in any other way.

The Endowment Fund, which the 1913 Conclave ordered to be increased to one hundred dollars, seems to have been forgotten by the Ninth Grand Conclave. A thorough discussion relating to the Pin Revenue permits this income to go into the general fund. This year it seems advisable, but the next Conclave might well consider the advisability of shifting this source of revenue to the Endowment Fund.

The experiences of other fraternities should serve as an example and furnish convincing evidence that we need an Endowment Fund.

The Pin Revenue from three hundred and twenty-three men, the number we initiated last year, added to the present Endowment Fund and placed on accumulative interest at four per cent., would at the end of six years give us an Endowment Fund of over five thousand dollars; and at the end of eighteen years the Endowment Fund would amount to over eighteen thousand dollars. Get out your pencil and paper and see for yourself, then talk it over.

Michigan.

Brother J. A. Woodward has been elected Grand Treasurer and has his officer at Leetonia, Ohio.

Brother H. 0. Schwab spent a part of the summer in Chicago.

Nebraska.

"Bill" Robertson is attorney at Plattsmouth for the Burlington.

Fritz Schlagle is taking care of the state boarders at the Nebraska Penitentiary, Lancaster, Nebraska.

"Sid" Frum is County Attorney at Dakota City, Nebraska.

"Jim" Harvey runs an electric light plant at York, Nebraska, and helps coach the "Cornhuskers" on the side.

M. E. Cornelius is a banker at Los Angeles, California.

"Joe" Keifer is farming at Bostwick, Nebraska.

"Bill" Lamb is in the Government Forest Service at Washington, D. C.

"Wart" Currier, Professor Currier now at the Montana Agricultural College, Bozeman, Montana.

"Hogue" Meier is selling silos to Nebraska farmers and lives in Lincoln.

"Sandy" Griswold, practicing law in Blaine, Washington. .

"Moddy" Modesitt is a real estate dealer in Grand Island, Nebraska.

C. V . Williams, member of the Curtis Agricultural College at Curtis, Nebraska.

"Jim" Tucker is in the drug business at Long Pine, Nebraska.

"Stub" Elwell sells hardware in his own store at Springfield, Nebraska. He was in school last year.

George Lamb is in the Government Forest Service at WashinP"ton, D. C.

"Cal" Moore is with the Government Geological Survey at Baggs, Colorado.

"Pat" Patterson is located at Ann Arbor, Michigan.

"Von" Von Fore!! is doing scientific farming at Chester, Nebraska.

"Fritz" Hofmann is on the faculty of the Kentucky Agricultural College, of Lexington, Kentucky.

Harry Villars is in the real estate and insurance business in Tecumseh, Nebraska.

"Louie" Krioll is working for the Crete Milling Company, of Crete, Nebraska.

Carl Richardson is located with the Franklin Insurance Company of Philadelphia

California.

Creed Brown, our enthusiastic Alumni President, has been rusticating this summer in the high Sierras Address, East Auburn, Cal.

George Bardsley returns to Fresno next year, expecting an increase in salary He will have charge of the entire Physics department of the Junior College.

Al Burrill arrived from the wilds of "Skiyou" the night before the Fourth. Al hopes to get located in a law business in Oakland.

Karl Leebrick has been elected Secretary of the University of California Alumni Association. "K. C." still takes the same old interest in Acacia affairs.

Jimmie Morgan visited the house this summer before leaving for Alaska to assume charge of a government railroad survey.

Hugh Gordan attended George L. Bell's wedding in San Francisco, and while he was there Jimmie Morgan, Jack Pullen and Mert Elliott joined him for a little summer reunion.

Herb Breed has been elected Worthy Patron of Oak Leaf Chapter No. 8, 0. E S., second largest chapter in the world.

Fred Hofer we know-another Hofer we must now get acquainted with. Congratulations from the bunch, Fred.

To Earl Maxwell it never rains laurels but it pours. The first is a young Maxwell Creepabout, the second is honors in first year medicine at Vanderbilt University.

Nat Edwards is spending a few weeks in Yosemite.

Brother O'Donnell read an exceedingly interesting paper at a house meeting last spring.

Congratulations to Cecil Fay on his new honors as Grand Vice-President.

] ohn Doyle has resumed his position in the Los Angeles schools.

Ben Pratt, in addition to having been honored by election to Sigma Xi, has been appointed a graduate assistant in Biology

Harvard.

Brother John W. Baker, our VicePresident last year, is now practicing his chosen profession-law-in New York.

Hugh W. Hastings is engaged in the same occupation with his father in Fryeburg, Maine.

Brother Sanford is in the Columbia Law School.

So far as we know we are the only persons who claim that uood has resulted from the present European conflict. Brother Archer Taylor had received a scholarship which sent him to the University at Munich, Germany, but owing to the unsettled condition of affairs the school was forced to close and he to return to US.

Brother W. F. Merrill is now on the road to fame, as a lawyer, at Skowheegan, Maine.

L. S. Duxbury is appealing both to the juries and voters of Minnesota.

Brother C. J. Gale has married and says his wife won't let him stay out at night, so he had to end his long and useful career as an active Acacian.

Ralph V. Seward is associated with his father in the wholesale feed and grain business at Hardin, Missouri.

Ralph E. Murphy is also associated with his father but in the manufacture of school' furniture at Topeka, Kansas.

Brother J. G. Hall has entered the field of banking in Southern California.

Brother Carl Parsons is principal of Winthrop (Massachusetts) High School.

Brothers Chas. Penningroth, E. R. Wilson and R. G. Page are practicing law in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and Boston, Massachu;etts, respectively.

Brother Geo. W. Howe also is engaged in the practice of law in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Brother J. Frederick Ballard, dramatist, who was with us last .year, t?o!lgh not an active man, has achteved dlstmction by taking unto .hi.mse.lf a. "bet.ter half" and further d1stmctton IS bemg thrust upon him because of a problem play of now showing in New York.

Illinois.

Brothers "Stub" Shawl and Ben Kirk spent the summer with Delano's Blue Jacket Band at Lincoln, Nebraska. They returned with glowing accounts of Nebraska hospitality.

Brother "Mike" Cassidy spent a few days with the Chicago chapter while taking his Bar examination.

Brothers Wails and Hayes summered with the Wisconsin chapter.

Franklin.

Brother Frank Hitchens is an instructor at Carnegie Technical School, Pennsylvania. His address 1s 5123 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Brother William Knauer is in business with his father in Des Moines, Iowa.

Brother Edward Glass is practicing the arts of his craft in Fresno, California.

Brother Guy Cook has been elected the Vice-President of the Hull Pottery Company, New York City.

Brother Beersman has located himself at 244 Fifth Avenue, New York City, where he has opened an office for the practice. of he distingmshed h1mself by wmnmg the Masonic Temple competition at Yonkers New York. This success did not apPease his ambitious thirst, for he also won second prize in the LeBrun Traveling Scholarship.

Brother Dr. Dietnch 1s stt11 add1cted to the habit of looking into the months of people with decayed canines molars. But that is not the most senous offense charged against the young doctor. He is accused of having be.en married. Brother, may your you_ng hfe be crowned with more than cavities and fillings. May success and happiness .attend you and your wife in your manta! voyage.

Wisconsin.

"Bill" Williams has located with the Chicago chapter for a time.

John X. Newman spent a few days. at the Acacia House in Chicago the earher part of the summer.

Brother Treleven, Professor of Administration and Commerce in the University of Texas, did graduate work at the University of Chicago this summer.

Missouri.

Brother Shrader spent a few days with the brothers at Manhattan Chapter and reports "s<;>me .time."

Shrader is now located m Philadelphia and can be reached through Franklin Chapter.

Dr. Albert Howard Baugher, one of Chicago's young physicians and. founder of the Missouri chapter, contmues to

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manifest hi s intere s t in Ac a c ia by callin g at th e Chicago chapter hou se frequent l y with Mrs . Baugher.

Cornell.

Brother Davis spent the summer enjoying the ho sp itality of the fraternity at Madiso n.

We h ave received visits from Br ot h e rs Tom Bradlee a nd W . H . Rothenberger. Brother Bradlee is Direc t o r of Extension at the University of Vermont, w h ere Brot her H. A. Jennin gs is a ssociated with him. Brother Rothenberger is ope r a tin g a larg e farm at Palm Pennsylvania. '

. Brot.her Gridley , who .is n ow en gaged m selhng sto rage battenes and lighting plants, spe nt a few d ays with us.

Ohio.

Brother Evans took summer school wo rk at the Uni ve rsit y of Wis co nsin imbi b in g some of t he Acacia spirit ev e; in evidence at the Madison chapter house .

Purdue.

Brothers Shriver, Benton . Row land Wilson, Montgomer y and Metz ge r , '14; Brothers Harroh and Brackney '13 · Brother Yoter , 'II, and Brother ' cook' '12, have visited us since the opening of school.

Brother Phillips is the happy father of a new boy, whom we hope to m a ke an Acacian in 1935.

Dan Cupid has been at work among our brothers and reports the following results :

On September 30th occurred the wedding of Brother Peters, Ex-'rs and Harriet Carpenter, of Indmna.

The wedding of Brother Wendling '14, and Miss Ethel Brand, of Dayton ' Indiana , took place on October rst. ' ' Brother Fleming, one of our charter members , was married in October to Miss Daisy Brazleton, of Princeton InThe wedding took place at Washmgton, D . C.

Chicago.

CHESTER NATHAN GouLD, OuR MAsTER BUILDER.

Chester Nathan Gould, second initiate of Chicago (Ayin) Chapter, gives daily expression to genuine, enthusiastic and progressive ideals of Acacian welfare. By diligence, perseverance and sacrifice at a most critical period in his professional career, Brother Gould has made for himself a lasting name in the annals of Acacia, becoming the one greatest

factor in the establishment of home life for Acacians at Chicago. He has met every obstacle that has confronted us , bridged over every danger period, and procured , generously furnished , and conscientiously applied means for every need that has come to Ayin as a household. He is our Master Builder.

This September Dr. Gould departs for a in the north of Europe, devoted t<? hts professional specialty, Scandinavtan phtlology. We bid him bon voyage and await with assurance his return bearing the scholar's laurels.

Manhattan.

Brother Hall (Harvard) stopped and said hello. He was en route to Waterville, Kansas, where he is practicing law.

Brother Robinson is at Burlington, Kansas, where he is employed as instructor in Agriculture Manual Training and coaching His foot ball team has been breaking even so far this season.

Brother Johansen is located at Reno, Nevada. · He is teaching Chemistry and Physics in the High School at that place. Brother Elmer Johnson came in for a day en route to El Paso, Texas. He told us of the initiation at Franklin and what a royal bunch of fellows he met while there.

EDITOR's NmE -The material for this sectiorl was selected from chapter letters and chapter publications.

WITH THE AUTHORS.

"A REVELATION OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION", by Dr. John J. Mullaney, 'o8, M. D., charter member Franklin Chapter. F. H. Revell Company, New York.

This is an authentic and intimate record of the Chinese Revolution compiled from Bro. Mullaney's data. It was inspired by men behind the scenes, and Dr. Mullaney's book shows how the extravagance and inefficiency of the Manchus brought about the ruin of their dynasty and ushered in the first republic of the East. Bro. Mullaney also reviews the social and political conditions now existing in China.

"VETERI ARY STATE BoARD QuESTIO s A D ANSWERs", by Dr. G. Kimball, Cornell, D.V.M. American Journal of Veterinary Medicine.

The book for which the senior veterinary student about to face the state board of civil se rvice examination, the practitioner moving from one state to another, and the instructor desiring to give his classes a ha ty review of the s ubject, will thank the author. The elimination of the unnecessary matter from the great ma ss of material collected shows a vast amount of labor and careful discrimination.

"T uE UNJVER rTY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ITs HISTORY, TRADITIO s, BUILDINGS AN D MEMORIALS", by Bro. G. E. Nitzsche, '98 Law, Founder of Franklin Chapter. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, Pa. Bro. Nitzsche's newest volume of 256 pages forms a complete and comprehensive guide of the University of Pennsylvania. A perusal of the work cannot help impres s ing one with the age of "Old Penn", and it glorious hitory. The book identifies the numerous priceless paintings of the University Collection, list s the endowment fund s and includes a concise hi torical sketch of the University. A description of the many beautiful fraternity houses on the campus, with photographs of each, add s materially to the value of the book. At the end of the volume is given a list of the 75 fraternities which are represented by chapters at the University, a list of university publications, papers, magazines, etc. The book should prove of great value to the Pennsy lvania men, as well to all college men desiring to become familiar with one of the greatest universities of the world. ·'. MERICAN STUDENT CoMPETITIONs", by W. M. Stanton and W. G. Mann, 'I4 Arch. Franklin.

A co llection of thirty-six plates, with programs; selected from the prize winning designs of the Rome, Paris, Stewardson and Interscholastic Competition s; promises to be of great value to the architectural student and the practicing architect.

"A man dis atisfied with endeavor is a man tempted to sadness." "A Christmas Sermon"-Stevenso11.

"Some falls are means the happier to arise."-Cymbeline, IV, ii. 403.

"Men should be what they seem."-Othello, III, i.

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ILLINOIS CHAPTER, CHAMPAIGN, ILLINO IS

HAPTE.R LETTER8 ,

Michigan, Stanford, Kansa s , Nebraska, Ca lifornia, Ohio, Harvard, lllin o is, Franklin, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Cornell, Purdue, C hi cago, Yale, o lumbia , low a State, I owa City, Penn. State, Washington, Colorado, Syracuse, Manhattan,

Chapt e r D irect o ry.

Carl Mitcheltrae, Acacia Fraternity House, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

A. N. Mackenzie, Acacia House, St a nford University, California.

J. W. Hill, Acacia House. 1541 Tenn St., Lawrence, Kansas.

J. Burnett, Acacia House, 1325 R St. , Lincoln, Nebraska.

J. D. Foster, Acacia House, 2634 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California.

W. W. Henkelman, Acacia House, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

T. C. Huff, Acacia Hou se, 16 Prescott St ., Cambridge, Massachusetts.

John A. Chase, Acacia House, Champaign, Illin o is.

Eli Fry "Wismer, Acacia House , 210 S o uth 36th St ., Philade l phia, Pa.

E. F. Critcqelt, Acacia House, 1206 5th St. S. E ., Minneapolis Minnesota.

Wallace Meyer, Acacia House, 615 Lake St., Madison, Wisconsin.

N. E. FitzGerald, Acacia House, 909 Elm St., Columbia, Missouri.

Wm. M O'Donnell, Acacia House, 708 East Seneca St., Ithaca, New York.

H. K. Laramore, Acacia Hou se, 427 State St. , West La Fayette, Indiana.

J oe l F. McDavid, Acacia House, 5719 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, Illinoi s.

M. H. Husted, Acacia House, 16 York Square, ew Haven, Connecticut.

Duane R. Dills, 336-344 West 36th St., New York.

H. B. Kinney, Acacia House, Ames, Iowa.

Geo . H . Hilliard,

Acacia House, Iowa City, Iowa.

William S Dye, Jr., Acacia House, State College, Pennsylvania.

E. C. Carr, Acacia House, University of Washingt on, Seattle, Wasnington.

M. J . Dickson, Acacia

Walter G. lies, Acacia

Ralph C. Erskine, Acacia House, Boulder, Colorado.

House, 708 University Ave., Syracuse, New York.

House , 821 Osage St., Manhattan, Kansas.

Michigan Chapter.

Michigan Chapter extends her warmest greetings to her sister chapters and wishes them a most prosperous year.

The outlook for the Mother Chapter for the ensuing year is brighter than ever before. We have nineteen men back from last year's bunch and three pledges; Lacy, Collins and Hubbard, in all twenty-two men to start the year's work. With our new house standing proudly in the midst of the fraternity district and such a valiant crowd back, our prospects for the coming year are very bright. There is an abundance of Masonic material in Ann Arbor this fall and our efforts to secure new men have been fruitful.

The boys r:eturned to Ann Arbor on the Twenty-third of September and an active rushing campaign began at once. We have secured four good pledges: Van Aken, Montelius, Joseph and Nicholas, and have several other good prospects in view. Our pledges are men who will be with us from two to six years as undergraduates, which gives us a better opportunity to instill in them the Acacia principles which we wish to maintain.

During the second week of school a smoker was held at the Michigan Union Club House for the student Masons of the university, at which time our boys availed themselves of the opportunity to come in closer contact with some whom we ovel'looked in our preliminary canvass and whom we hope to make brother Acacians soon.

Our new house offers an excellent opportunity to entertain guests and we extend to all Acacia brothers a most hearty invitation to visit us on every opportunity. Our facilities of entertainment are excellent. Come often and stay as long as you can .

Stanford Chapter.

To all sister chapters of Acacia Stanford Chapter sends greetings and best wishes for a successful and prosperous year

Stanford opens the new year with fifteen of the old "bunch" back, three of whom ar.e living outside the house.

We held our first initiation September 13th at Palo Alto Masonic Temple, and we had an excellent over fifty alumni and members being present. Messrs. Roberts, Towner and Collins took the strenuous journey and accomplished it with safety. Our next initiation will be a joint one with our sister chapter, California, and Pledge Hyder will be the candidate who will go in search of knowledge.

Our annual banquet will be held the middle of November in conjunction with California. Any visiting Acacia or alumni of other chapters are more than welcome; and if any contemplate being in this section of the country at or on about November 15th please communicate with either the California or Stanford Chapters

The fall issue of The Triangle will be issued soon, and all the chapters will receive a copy. We would be pleased to receive in exchange issues printed by any of the sister chapters.

We are looking forward with great expectations to the 1915 Conclave in San Francisco. We shall work in conjunction with California on this occasion and will endeavor to make this one of the best Conclaves that Acacia has ever had. At any rate, we will instill some of our good old western stuff into the boys of the east so that they will want to stay around dear old San Francisco. All you Acacians scrape up your coin and travel along with the rest. We have an 8ooo-acre campus at the Stanford Farm, so we can amply take care of the bunch . Come along boys.

We have a number of various committees working on a new house, entertainment, etc. Our alumni are all prospering, from what we can learn; at least they get three square ones per day, and that is something.

Sister chapters, here's luck for the coming year, and let us see you all in 1915.

Kansas Chapter.

At this the beginning of the eleventh year of the Acacia Fraternity and likewise the close of the tenth year of this chapter, Kansas Chapter sends hearty greetings and best wishes to the Grand Officers and sister chapters of Acacia. We trust that the next ten years of our existence will be as pleasant and as fruitful as the

years just past. We have accomplished much, but we still have much before u . We feel that the harmony and mutual co-operation which has existed between the Grand Officers and chapters has been a big item in furthering our progress both nationally and locally. This chapter will always be found ready to co-operate with the Grand Officers or chapters in anything for the good of the Fraternity.

We were quite fortunate this year in having such a large number of men back to the year off. Sixteen good Acacia men, all enthusiastic and desirous of making thts year better than the last. The first week started off with a rush and before Y:e had pledged si.x men. Since then we pledged four more, all good hve-wtre Masons. We sttll have some good matenal on the string.

The number of Masons in school is not as large as it was last year, but the is excellent and has made rushing more strenuous than ever. However, I mtght add that thus far we have not lost a man to whom we have extended a bid, and the competition has been worthy.

To begin the year with we had: R. D. Grayson, V. D.; F. C. Ackers, V. Pres.; J. W. Hill, Secretary; W. C. Magathan, Treasurer; R : H. Clayton, F. J. Leasure, S. R. Ingalls, 0. F. Fisk, P. W. Thiele, G. M. Clayton, J. W. McCaslin, E. L. Treece, R. S. Brooks, Fred Blachly, Dick Templin, and Harry Geauque from Ohio State Chapter. The house is well filled up and the table has been for some time which makes the financial part look quite encouraging for this time of the school year.

We have had several smokers at the house and one at the Masonic Temple. These were successful in bringing out some new material. The smoker given at the Temple was well attended, and we were favored with some very interesting talks. Some of the most prominent speakers were Chancellor Strong of the university, Mr. F. P. Smith, 33°, and Wm. L. Burdick, 33°, Deputy Grand Master of Kansas, and a member of this chapter. We were very fortunate in having these men with us as it assisted much in making the event a success and added some prestige to the occasion.

We have given one party at the chapter house and a dance downtown so far this year. On October 24th we will entertain the Kansas State Chapter with a dance, and we are expecting a number of their men to be with us at that time. We are also making preparations for our annual Homecoming, which will be November rst, the time of the Missouri game. • At that time we are expecting a large delegation from Missouri Chapter and also all the alumni who are in hailing distance. A banquet will be given the night before the game, and a dance the following night. We also hope to have some other visitors of note with us for the banquet.

We make an effort to take an active part in student activities and we are well represented this year. We have one member on the Student Council, two on the Kansan Board, two in the university band, and a number belong to honorary fraternities. Brother Fisk is playing regularly on the 'Varsity at right end, and Brother Gilbert Clayton is associate editor of the Jayhawker. We had no candidates for class officers but came in for a good share of the "grapes."

The men who we have pledged at this time are H. H. Wentworth, a senior in the college from Russell. Although "Hi" is a senior he will be back to work on his M. A. next year. Carl Baer, a junior in the college from Moundridge; Lester Johnson, a medic from Kinsley; Edward Pedroi a, a sophomore in the college from Lawrence; Howard T. Hill, of Lawrence; H. S. Barnard, a sophomore from Madison, J. E. B. Miller, a sophomore from lola; E. M. Madden, a freshman from Topeka; T. E. Bell, a freshman from Canute, and S. C. Tobey, a freshman from Nortonville.

Announcements of the marriage of Brothers Jones, Merwin and Mavity were received during the summer. Brother Jones is attending school at Cornell this year. The old men who have dropped in on us this fall are Brothers Snoddy, Jean Hall, Hornbaker, Amick, Reid, Sherwood, Royer, Rhine, Fuller, Smith, Helleck and Stocks.

California ChaPter.

California Chapter has been actively at work three weeks longer than all its eastern and most of its western, sisters this semester. Of course it is no more than right explain that after taking the matter up with the university authorities, we were assured that work would start August 17th, in order that we might the sooner get through with the relentless grind of studies, and be in a where we might give our undivided attention to the task which we as loyal Acactans

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regard as the thing of paramount importance next year, the business of making a successful Pacific Coast Conclave for Acacia. Next year is destined to be a banner year for the Pacific Coast and for Acacians on the coast, and we are surely safe in saying that Washington, Stanford and California Chapters will use all honorable efforts to assist in the furtherance of the laudable undertaking of ringing in a banner year for Acacia.

Realizing as we do the honor which is ours in having been chosen as the entertaining chapters, the distinctive privilege of rendering a service to the Fraternity, and the hardships to which many of our eastern chapters will be put, every active and alumnus member of Stanford and California Chapters feels keenly alive to the duties of the occasion, and is imbued with the necessity of exerting himself to the utmost to live up to the reputation for hospitality for which California is famous. We welcome you, Washington, to a share in the honor and responsibility which accompanies the preparation of a successful and prosperous Conclave. California Chapter speaks for herself in saying that it is our most intense concern that the Acacia Fraternity shall be proud of its representatives in the Golden State.

At the opening of this college year we were fortunate in having fifteen old reliables back on the job, as a basis for future development. We have since initiated four good men. · Laurence Fowler, senior; Philip Taylor, junior; Leland Bell, sophomore, and Clayton Elliott, freshman, all well up in their respective activities. Fowler is an honor student in agriculture and first lieutenant in the University Cadet Band. Taylor is a crew man and prominent Shriner. Bell was last year's freshman president. Elliott is an assistant in the Law Department. Four strong pledges are Freshmen Harold Danieldson, "Dick" Schofield and Jesse Rasor-not bad for the first month. Of the eight men who represented Acacia in our 1914 graduating class, two, Pratt and Hansell, have returned for master degrees, while Stewart, Pinksa, Bailey, Jensen, Sater and Smith have left college circles to seek in business or profession, the rewards of four years of academic toil.

There is a large number of Masons registered in college, and prospects are surely bright for a happy year. With no dormitories as centers of college life, and with a college population of five thousand scattered over a town of sixty thousand, we find it a particularly exacting problem to canvass our field, and get acquainted with all our available material.

As a means toward this end we find the scheme of giving an annual smoker for all college Masons a very profitable help. We have set a date for such an event for an evening in October, with a program of cards, music, speeches from prominent Masons, and refreshments. We have also been invited to take charge of an evening of entertainment in one of the largest Berkeley lodges, and are planning a lively affair. We feel that such functions, because they require thoroughly loyal co-operation and team work, are great factors, even more satisfactory than dances and launch rides, in producing a feeling of unity and solidity in the chapter.

We envy the eastern chapters their opportunities, far greater on account of shorter distances, for getting acquainted with each other. At California we try to make the most of what chance we have for forgetting our own petty local problems, and make an effort to see as much of Stanford Chapter as possible. We are looking forward with especial pleasure this year to our joint banquet which is held annually in November shortly before the Stanford-California "big games," for this year it will be easy to neglect college rivalry in the common anticipation of the Conclave.

The matter of greatest local interest at present is the erection of a new house. Our building ful\d has been steadily increasing until now we are in a position to investigate locations. With us this is a ticklish problem, on account of the prevailing high prices in land, and a sad lack of funds. But we hope before long to have on our own property the auspicious ceremony of the planting of an Acacia tree, whose healthy growth in this sunny climate shall be a token of an even stockier growth in the chapter. We are mighty anxious to be able next summer to point to a beautiful hillside site and say to our visiting brothers, "this is the future home of California Acacia."

There is much more which we should like to report concerning our happy home, but for the rest let us refer you to our last and next copies of the Memnon. We feel that we have a just pride in our M emnon, for we are constantly in receipt of letters from our alumni and from various chapter secretaries, congratulating us on the "pep" and "ginger" shown therein, and assuring us that it is worthy of praise. We are firmly convinced of the worthwhileness of a similar publication for every chapter, for the alumni are highly appreciative of its contents.

And now California wishes to extend heartiest congratulations to our new Grand Council, Frazer, Fay, Kilmer, Woodward and Mann, and to assure our Grand Officers that we will appreciate any suggestions that will help us, or that will enable us to help them. California sends best wishes to each and every chapter for a prosperous year.

Ohio State U11iversity,

The opening of the new college year found Ohio State chapter with fifteen active men working for the interests of Acacia in a most thorough manner, and with a spirit of unity and confidence. Besides these active men we had three pledges carried over from last spring, who "crossed the sands" on September 28th, our first initiation. The initiates were: Brother H. C. Ohlson, instructor in physical education; Brother C. I. Reed, assistant in the medical college, and Brother R. J, Marker, brother of our Honorable Brother James R. Marker. In addition to these, we have five new pledges, who will form part of the class taking the "eventful journey" on the nights of October 23 and 24.

On Friday evening, October 2nd, the Masons of the university held a banquet ' at the Ohio Union. Honorable Brother C. J. Pretzman, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, was the principal speaker of the evening; other Masons of the faculty and student body responded to toasts. In all, one hundred and forty Masons were present, which shows that Ohio State Chapter has an unlimited amount of material from which to choose her members. In fact, the increase in the number of Masons was quite an acceptable surprise to Brother Thomas E. Rees, head of the Rushing Committee, who has returned this fall to take up this important work and incidentally receive his degree in civil engineering. After the toasts, a committee was appointed to draw up a Constitution and By-Laws for a permanent Masonic Club at the university. This committee will make its report at the next banquet.

The nearest our chapter came to breaking into athletics this year, was in the operation of the score board on Ohio Field.

At this time we have but little more to say, but expect to be able to fill many pages in the next letter to THE JouRNAL, with a record of our progress. Meetings are held every Monday night as heretofore and are well attended. The spirit and enthusiasm shown this year is "the best ever," and we sincerely hope that the coming year will be as prosperous for all our sister chapters of Acacia as it promises to be .for us.

Harvard Chapter.

, To all Acacians John Harvard Chapter extends hearty greetings and a wish for a pleasant and profitable year.

Harvard Chapter has excellent prospects for a successful year. We have fifteen inen to start off with, the largest number in our history. Those who returned are: W. R. James, President; Fletcher Clark, Vice-president; T. C. Huff, Secretary; T. K Rinaker, Treasurer; A. E. Becker, A. R. McMicken, D. W. Towsend, W. L. Mann, P. V. McNutt, P. R. Harris, J. H. Ambery, Archer Taylor, G. K Cracraft, T. S. Jewett and L. B. Everitt. These are loyal men who will pull hard for a good year.

We have already gotten acquainted with a number of Masons though at the date of writing, the school had been opened only two days, and they look to be very good fraternity timber.

Upon such a good foundation we hope this year to build a strong, energetic chapter, full of interest in Acacia and Masonry. We are going to look over prospective members more critically than ever before, and we feel that good will result thereby.

We have received a material setback in our plans for getting in touch with our alumni, in that our alumni warden, whose especial duty it is to keep up with our older men and to keep them up with us, is not in school this year. We shall, however, overcome this as soon as possible.

During the summer our house was full of members attending the summer session of the school, or who were working in Boston. They attended to making several minor repairs and improvements.

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The only reason we have no more men in the house this winter is that there is no more room for them, and just here we wish to congratulate those chapters which are so fortunate as to have acquired spacious new homes during the last year or two. The whole Fraternity may well be proud of them.

During the summer our Grand President, Brother Frazer, on his way to Europe, honored us by a visit, which was appreciated by the whole chapter and especially by those members who could attend the dinner given in his honor in Boston.

We were very glad to receive a visit from Brothers Youngberg and Woolhiser, of Wisconsin Chapter. Mrs. Woolhiser accompanied her husband and was no less welcome.

At the time of writing Brother Fuller, also of Wisconsin, with us. As Brother Fuller has a position in Boston we hope to see him quite often. It is a pleasure to us to have the opportunity to meet these brothers from other chapters, and we hope that many others will follow suit. We assure you a cordial welcome.

Brother H. H. Crawford, of Illinois Chapter, has entered the graduate school of architecture and called on us the first day he was here, which is as it should be. We are very glad to have him with us and expect to make good use of him.

Brother James of this chapter had the pleasure of visiting Colorado Chapter, at Boulder, and was royally entertained, especially by Brothers Dickson and Martin.

We were represented at the Conclave, officially, by Brother L. S. Duxbury, and unofficially by L. S. Meade, A. A. Jenkins, and W. R. James. These men report an interesting Conclave, and the chapter expects to benefit materially by their presence there.

Brother Amberg has again achieved distinction for himself and the Fraternity by attaining, last year, the position of ranking man in his class-second year law. We wish to thank Iowa and Nebraska Chapters for sending us the names of Masons who are going to be in Harvard this year. Such assistance by one chapter to another is to be commended highly, and there should be more of it.

Illinois Chapter.

The date . for this letter comes so early in the college year that we at Illinois can hardly give more than a prediction of what we hope to do School with us did not commence until September 23rd. In the week that has elapsed since that time we have been so busy getting settled in our new home that we have scarcely had time to think of anything else. We feel that in future the first letter should not be required before the twelfth or fifteenth of October. We could then have something definite about which to write and a much more interesting letter would be the result.

We began this fall with twelve old men and three pledges in the house. Our new house has a capacity of twenty-four. As is always the case with new buildings, the contractor did not have the house finished when he promised and we spent our first week, in company with the plumbers and carpenters, in a house with no light but candles and no bathroom finished except the one in the servant's quarters in the basement. In the face of most discouraging difficulties we finally managed to get most of the work done. It looked as though the task of cleaning up and getting settled was almost hopeless, but everybody pitched in, worked day and night, and finally got things presentable.

We have initiated two of our old pledges, E. A. Smith, E. E. '16, and P. H. Brown, Bus. La. 'rs. The third, W. K Porter, Chern. Eng. '16, will probably have taken the journey before this letter is published.

In addition we have pledged two new men, Nelson, of the Ceramics School, and Pendarvis, Law 'r6. Pendarvis is managing editor of the Daily Illini and one of the most prominent law school men. Four more men have been bid and have accepted, but they have not been pledged as this letter is written.

We are in close touch with fifty students, Masons of exceptionally high caliber, and hope to complete our chapter roll in another week with men of a class which has seldom been equalled by any fraternity at Illinois. It looks now as though we were going to have the most successful year we ever had.

We have been greatly aided in our rushing this year by a directory compiled by the Registrar of the university. This directory is compiled by means of a set of cards, which are given to all students when they register, and on which they are required to put their local address, class and course, and a complete list of all secret societies to which they belong.

Besides our rushing, we are beginning to interest ourselves in class politics. The boys are getting lined up and we hope to enjoy our usual successes in the political field this year.

Our new house, now we have really got settled, looks finer every day and we feel that it could not have been better.

Our athletes have hardly got started yet, as our only football man, Lansche, has so far been compelled to stay out of the game on account of parental objections, and it is too early for any of the other sports to be under way. We have our usual supply of material, however, and ought to be able to make ourselves known in other lines before the winter is over.

For the first time in our history we will be adequately represented in the military department. Chase and Smith are both commissioned officers, Kern is first sergeant of the battery, and a number of our most promising rushees are prominent "warriors." We hope to make ourselves worthy of the esteem of Brother Major F. D. Webster, U. S. A., Commandant of Cadets.

On the whole we feel that we ought to be able to do pretty well this year We have the best fraternity house here. Our .fellows are on the job as never before. Acacia material of the best class is even more plentiful than in former years . Watch our smoke.

Franklin Chapter.

With the opening of the portals of the University of Pennsylvania to the influx of an army of seven thousand students. Mater Franklin Chapter with outstretched arms welcomed the home-coming of the following prodigals after the summer's peregrinations : Brothers Blogg, Dallas, Everett, Hardenberg, Kline, Kirk, McSherry, Steves, Yoder and Wismer. Without doubt, the old guard presents a husky line-up. This one element differentiates the physical appearance of these modern prodigals from the well-known prod igal of old.

During the summer months, our house suffered a trying, but not a serious operation. For almost the entire summer our house had to endure the infliction of extensive internal improvements. The walls were clothed with new paper, the woodwork acquiesced to the painter's brush, the floors renewed their acquaintanceship with sapolio, and the showers and tubs have become as sloppy as of yore. The renovation was greatly needed. Our home in its new garb presents a very attractive and pleasing appearance, and affords comfortable accommodations for the inmates. Weary eastern pilgrims are cordially welcomed to ollr renovated quarters . In advance, we suggest the thought that they won't "know the old place now."

The summer months have some interesting and startling facts to disclose. Only; the most tenacious adherence to vigorous cross-examination revealed some of the news garnered in this article . Brother Dallas was observed on the campus without sufficient means of identification upon his person to have him transported safely to the Acacia domicile in case of loss in transit. The absence of the pin from his manly bosom has occasioned considerable anxiety in our ranks as to his future welfare. Brother Everett also speaks incoherently, wanders about aimlessly, and eats sparingly, since his return to the fold. He seems to be afflicted with the same malady, and the absence of his pin from its wonted resting place may occasion his forlorn look. But the saddest tale this pen has to tell is the loss sustained by Brother Kline. He lost both his pin and his head. But to offset this loss, he claims to have found and to have reduced to possession both the heart and hand of a beautiful young woman, who now has the marked d"istinction of being addressed as Mrs. Kline. May the stalwart benedict and his blushing bride be blessed with a very happy and prosperous wedded career. Brother Kline is reading law in the law school, but has the l aw laid down to him out of school.

Since our last letter to THE AcACIA JoURNAL our chapter has welcomed to its fold and initiated into its mysteries, Brothers Dr. S. J. Steves and Louis Kirk. Brother Steves is taking a course in the public hygiene department and Brother Kirk is reading law in the law department.

Our ranks have been appreciably depleted by last year's graduation. The loss sustained by the departure of these men is felt most keenly Their absence leaves a vacancy which it is impossible to fill. Franklin Chapter surely has just cause for being proud of the men she has sent out into the world, as specimens of her handiwork. We wish them Godspeed in all that is noble, upright and good .

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It may be of interest to note the boughs upon which our fledgings alighted, after ha v ing been carefully nurtured for this all-important flight. A week or two after g r aduat ion , Brother Mann sailed for Europe to spend the summer in architectural st ud y in continental Europe. He alighted with ease. But with the outbreak of that titanic military exhibition, his lodgment was not of long duration, and his flight h omewa rd was hastened with alacrity. His visits to the architectural landmarks in Italy, Greece , Turkey, Crete and Sicily were highly satisfactory, if satisfaction may be estimated in terms of photographic reproductions. But the objects of his photog raphic efforts are not all of the antiquated landmark types. Some of them do not show signs of having seen more than twenty summers. His photographs of the old and of the young are highly entertaining, and, as Bill says, very instructive.

By the way, here is one on Brother Bill good enough for publication. Brother Bill has been one of John Newman's most faithful customers. Brother Bill was not satisfied to have but one Acacia pin at large as his own personal property, so he bought an additional fraternity emblem. The one he purchased for his adornment, and the other he carried across the continent to the Pacific coast to adorn the person of a lady who might some day become a "Mann." (Brother Bill says this would not be the first instance of a woman changing into a "Mann." His mother, he says, is a striking illustration.) Last spring, one morning, Brother Bill's face wore the dejected look of an unfortunate broker who has been made the unhappy victim of a wild cat speculation. He expected the worst He feared he might become the wealthy possessor of two Acacian pins. But the passing of summer has dispelled the gloom. His bright, cherry countenance .now bespeaks the confidence he has in the magic of the other pin.

Brother Grant's philosophy emphasized the importance of human life. In keeping with such philosophic opinion is his latest move in the world. He is selling life insurance in our · city of "Brotherly Love."

Brother Saul has been advised that law is a confused and hazy subject for study. He has determined to locate himself in the proper atmosphere. He has gone to Pittsburgh. He will enter the law department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Brother Ross, who last year was forced to discontinue his reading of the law because of illness, has returned to State College. Conflicting reports are current as to the purpose of his return to that institution. Some say he has gone there to complete the course for his A. B. degree. Some say he has gone there to assist the librarian in the discharge of pressing duties incumbent upon her. Still others suggest that he has gone there to curtail the cost of high living. By living there his cost in postage will be reduced pl'actically to a nullity. But Brother Bill hints rather broadly that it is a matrimonial degree in "Fussology," to which Brother Ross aspires. Go to it, Brother Ross, any one of the purposes supra is honorable.

Brother Meyer will enter the University of Pittsburgh to read law.

Brother Litten is obliged to discontinue his course of study in the Wharton School for a year, because of urgent business interests which require his personal attention. At this writing he is spending a few days with us in the east , renewing old acquaintanceship.

Brother Armour, also, desires a year's respite from architectural hostilities. He writes from his California home that he will return a year hence. The return of these brethren will be anticipated with much pleasure.

The prospects for a successful year from every point of view are most encouraging. A smoker, to which many Masonic students will be invited, will be given in the near future. If one may conjecture from the many men seen on the campus wearing Masonic emblems, Franklin Chapter should have a wealth of material from which to choose.

Wiscot1sit1 Chapter.

With twenty-five of the active members back at the opening of the university year, and with six new men pledged the first week, Acacia at Wisconsin anticipates the best year of its existence. This expectation is made stronger by the fact that over fifty Masons, all of them good looking timber, signed our register at the smoker we gave for university Masons during registration week.

There are, however, some other things we hope to do this year in addition to strengthening our ranks by the judicious selection of new men. We are determined to increase our lead over the other fraternities in the matter of scholarship. We plan to

take a more active part in Masonic affairs in Madison than we have done heretofore. We hope to enhance our social standing in the latin quarter, and look fon ard to at least one form of sociability, dancing parties, with no little pleasure. The most notable autumnal affair is to be the Wisconsin homecoming at the time of the Chicago game, October 31. We, and our guests, dance at the New Park that evening. As regards interfraternity activities, such as bowling, we are confident of giving a good account of Acacia.

The summer school session drew a congenial company of Acacians and friends of Acacia to our home at 6rs Lake street. Among those who lived here were Brothers Evans, of Ohio, Watts and Hayes of Illinois, Davis of Cornell, several Wisconsin graduates as well as a number of undergraduates, and Arlie Mucks, of Oshkosh, Olympic discus thrower. Residence at the Acacia Lodge is particularly pleasant during the summer as we live within a stone's throw of Lake Mendota, and our men are much given to swimming, canoeing and yachting.

In the spring time Acacia's baseball team finished second in its division after winning a majority of hard fought games. The early morning of Memorial day, however, saw the proud first team brought to grief by a nine composed of "private" Acacians who called themselves the Insurrectos. They beat the regular team I4 to I, which promises well for the Acacia baseball team in 1915.

Founders' Day, May I2, was observed by an initiation and a formal dinner, when over sixty men sat down at the banquet tables. Half of this number was composed of Acacians no longer active, but not the less loyal, and eleven different chapters were represented as a list of the guests indicates. The men admitted to membership at this occasion were H. H. Morris, Racine, chemistry; Leslie Morris, Madison, engineer; and J, .P. Schwata, Madison, engineer. The post-prandial remarks were introduced by F. H. Macgregor, and the following men spoke: E. H. Whitcomb, Frank Jones, E. L. Leasman (through A. E. MacQuarrie), Wallace Meyer, E. F. Bean, and several others.

Our representative, A. E. MacQuarrie and John X. Neumann, give us a favorable account of the work done at the National Conclave at Ann Arbor in June, at which a former Wisconsin Acacia man, G. E. Frazer was elected Grand President.

Three new men were initiated October 3: George Johnson, Cambridge, Wis., letters and science; John P. Peterson, Milwaukee, engineer; L. W. Bishop, Mallet Creek, 0., commerce.

The first neophytes of the current university year are W. B. Arvold, H. M. Rosencrans, E. Morrison, W. R. Dunnwiddie, C. F. Young, and L. T. Ayer.

Alumni brothers who have visited the house this year speak of the excellent fraternal spirit which is manifested. The older men also speak of it. One phase of this esprit de corps is shown by the music which follows dinner almost every day-the chapter boasting an informal orchestra, consisting of piano, violin, flute, cornet, mandolins, viola and a trombone (not yet limbered up for the year).

Missouri Chapter.

Missouri Chapter is starting the year with bright prospects for both a profitable .and a successful year. At present we have twelve active members and three pledges. The active men are: W. 0. Lockhart, Agr. 'rs, Owensville, Mo., who is our present V. D.; C. A. Chase, Arts 'r6, California, Mo., our worthy Steward, and one of the officers of the Athenaen Literary Society; H. B . Steele, Agr. 'r6, Waverly, Mo., our busy Secretary; H. K. Poindexter, Arts 'rs, Kansas City, Mo., Chapter Treasurer, member of Student Senate, officer of the Athenaen Society and politician; J. I. Metz, Civil Eng. 'r6, St. Louis, Mo., member of the M. E. C., an engineering fraternity, and Chapter Librarian; W. L Brosius, Jr., Med. 'rs, (Grad. Arts), Mounds and Phi Beta Ei; V. R. Wilson, Agr. 'r6, Ava, Mo., who assisted in the agricultural exhibit at the State Fair this year; H. K. Thatcher, our last year's V. D. and captain of the track team and who is now assisting in the soil survey; George Sasse, graduate student and Colu:nbia architect; C. E. Barkshire (Faculty), manager of the Co-operative Store at the University; N. E. FitzGerald, Ed. 'rs, Gerald, Mo., who ts Senior Dean of the chapter and Student Assistant in Botany in the University; Charles Chambers, Agr. 'I6 Eldorado Springs, Mo., our youngest member, who was initiated October IS; and H. H. Barker of the Colorado Chapter. He lives at the Alpha Chi Sigma House but takes his m'eals with us . Brother Barker is Assistant in Chemistry at the University.

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Our pledges are: J. A. Faris, Ed. '16, Tarkio, Mo.; J. Long, Eng. '16, St. Louis , Mo., and R. McClaughry, Eng. 'rs, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Both of the latter belong to the Engineering Fraternity, M. E. C.

Three of our members who are still in college are this year at Chicago University. They are: R. B Lucas (Law) , Oran, Mo.; J Ray Cable (Education), Drexel, Mo., a nd J. H. Patrick Higbee, Mo.

We still maintain a house at 909 Elm which has a capacity of only sixteen men, and if all of our hopes are realized, by spring we shall need an annex near by. We have recently launched out on a lot and house proposition, and have purchased two of the most desirable lots in Columbia. The two lots together give us 140 feet front and depth r8o feet. They are conveniently located to all departments of the university, and are in what may be called "Fraternity Row." As yet they are not paid for, but our alumni are back of us and with their support and a steady income from the notes which every member signs, we feel that the debt for the lots will soon be cancelled and the building of the house begun.

During the summer we had six active members present and two alumni. F. S. Putney, now associate professor at Penn. State College, was here to attend the Graduat e School of Agriculture and George Sasse was here to live with the "boys."

The "Pirate Crew" has slackened in growth, due to the new order of "Night O w ls." Rushing season for the "Owls" is on and festivities around the university give the Grand Owl, J. I. Metz, ample opportunity to look up material.

The chapter likes the new directory just published. It will be a source of much information for older members and inspiration for the present active men. Why not keep it up to date since the book has now been started?

We are waiting with great expectations, the song book to be published by the Song Book Cbmmittee. Some changes in words or music of the pieces sent from our chapter have been agreed to and we hope the publication will be hurried to press. We need it.

Missouri Chapter sends greetings to all the sister chapters. We hope to greet you again in a short while with our Echo.

Cornell Chapter.

Once more the Cornell Chapter of Acacia extends to all her sisters the heartiest of greetings and the most cordial of wishes for success and well-being during the year upon which we have just entered So far as the local chapter is concerned, the outlook has never before been so encouraging as it is at the present time. Although we lost five members last June by graduation and three during the summer, by reason of our inability to compete with the attractions of matrimony, we are nevertheless beginning the current year with every room in the house occupied, and an active membership of sixteen, if we include two pledges and one affiliate, all of whom are in the house with us.

Those who have been initiated or pledged since the publication of the May JouRNAL are: C. G. Crittenden, B. S., who will receive his Ph. D. in 1917; J. G. Wilson, a senior in Agriculture ; L. H. Edwards, senior in Civil Engineering; E. P. Deatrick, who will receive his Ph. D. in 1916, and A. A. Cushing, a sophomore in Architecture.

The most recent addition to our family circle is John E. Jenkins, who comes to us from the "baby" chapter at Kansas State Agricultural College, where he received the degree of B. S. in 1911. Since that time he has been helping Uncle Sam build the Panama Canal, having been engaged in electrical construction work. John's advent among us has been most welcome, especially since he has displayed rare talent in recounting his adventures in the tropics, while his collection of trophies affords ample evidence of his skill as a Nimrod, at the same time constituting a striking addition to our mural decorations.

During the summer four of our members succumbed to the wiles of Cupid: Brother K. M . Dallenbach, for the past year a member of the faculty of the University of Oregon; Brother R. F. Chamberlain, Brother V. B. Stewart, and Brother A. B. Beaumont, to all of whom the Cornell Chapter extends its best wishes for a happy voyage on the sea of matrimony,

Another noteworthy event was the birth of a daughter to Brother and Mrs. Wheeler P. Davy.

Brother Harrington continues to advance in local military circles, having been appointed to a captaincy in the University Cadet Corps. ·

Brother Cushing, who rowed on the victorious freshman crew last year is now occupying a seat in the first 'varsity combination, and his chances for a perdJanent position in the first boat are very bright.

Purdue Chapter.

Purdue Chapter opened with thirteen old men back. This seemed indeed gratifying to us, considering the fact that seventeen men were graduated from our ranks last June. Three old men were unable to return to school this year, but these will probably later again become active Acacians. ·

On May 23rd the following men journeyed into Egypt and there entered our ranks to become active Acacians: C. J. Mertz, E. E. '15; G. W. Germanson, M. E. '16; A. J. Harth, C. E. 'rs; R. E. Simpson, C. E. 'r6, and Prof. L. W. Wallace, of the School of Mechanical Engineering, an influential Mason and Senior Warden of LaFayette Lodge. We feel that our ranks have been greatly strengthened by the coming of these men. Thus the end of the school year 1913-1914 marked a period of success and prosperity. The following men were graduated and have gone to take an active part in the affairs of the several communities in which they reside. J. T. Montgomery, F. R. Polk, E. E. Price, C. G. Malott, G. C. Wendling, H.]. Weaver, J. R. Meeks, T. E. Benton, B. H. Thompson, C. L. Wilson, R. G. Rowland, G. E Metzger, 0. P. Norton, G. B. Ely, M. B. W. Shriver, A. C. Davison and I. S. Barley. While the loss of these men is greatly felt, yet we know that they all will bring credit to our beloved Fraternity.

Most of the old men were back early this year and our "rushing" season has proven as profitable as it has interesting. Thus far we have pledged ten men and have several prospects ·in view. There seems to be a wealth of material this year and we feel that we have -selected none but the best. The pledges are: C. F. Williams '15, G. C. Wright '16, 0. L. Robinson 'r6, H. B. Collings '17, P. S. Webb '17, R. W. Covalt '17, J. A. Wood '18, J. B. Madden '18, G. M. Wren 'r8, A. D. Richardson '18.

Our duties have been many this fall, but we have not neglected the social side. Our first dance, which will be in honor of the pledges, will be given October roth. We have a house party scheduled for November 7th, which is the date of the Kentucky State football game. For these events we extend a hearty welcome to the brothers of our sister chapters.

During the past summer "Bif," our faithful mascot, met with foul play and now no longer welcomes us with his fraternal bark.

Prospects were never brighter for the Purdue Chapter of Acacia. With this spirit of optimism, we wish a prosperous year to all our sister chapters.

To our home we welcome all Acacians most heartily.

Chicago.

The past summer quarter has been one of the most important in the history of the Chicago Chapter of Acacia. We have had twenty-two active members who have taken an unusual interest in the chapter's welfare. The following members from other chapters have been directly associated with us and have contributed largely to our progress: Brothers Williams and Trelevan, of ·wisconsin Chapter; Rider, of Yale, and formerly of Chicago; Johnson, of Missouri; Thurstone, of Minnesota; Sherwood, of Kansas; Cockrell and Bush, of Illinois, and Foster, of Nebraska. Thus our house and table were filled to capacity.

Near the close of the spring quarter the Chicago Chapter, in conjunction with the Chicago Alumni Chapter, held a very successful banquet at the Great Northern Hotel. Among those present was Grand President Frazer, who gave an interesting toast in which he reviewed accounts of the condition of different chapters and urged Acacians present to attend and make the 1914 Conclave the best yet. .

During the summer quarter we had a very pleasant dance and also an mformal social at the house. Members of the Alumni Chapter in the city always turn out to our social functions for which we are duly thankful. A number of meetings of the Masonic Club of the university were held. The meetings that brought out the best attendance were the banquet and lectures by Professors Pound, of Harvard, and Chandler, of Chicago.

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Many excellent men attend the summer qua.rter, who ::re for the regular year, and Chicago Chapter took advantage of th1s opportun_1tY: to m1t1ate some of them. Six men were sent on a voyage to Egypt. Among these v1ct1ms were Professor E. R.

D ow nin g, As sistant Dean of the Sch oo l o f Education; F. R. Burt , As s ist a nt Pr o fes sor in Michi g an Agricultural Colle g e; John T. Vallandingham , Prof es sor in Cumberland Co lle g e , L eba non , Tenn .; Lee M. Elli son, Instructor in English, University of Texa s ; Fl oy d Smith, law student , Uni versity o f T exas , and John M cintosh , l a w student in the Uni v ers ity of Chica g o. C. S. Po w ell , medi cal student in the University of Chicago , w a s taken into the chapter at the close of the spring quarter.

More than r s o Acacians , nearly every chapter in the Fraternity, vi sited a t the hou s e during the summer. Of the se, thirteen were delegates to the decennial Co nclave at Ann Arbor Grand Officers Shepardson, Fr a zer and Kilmer w ere h e r e, and we are sorry we cannot also count among our number Brothers Faye, Woodward an d Mann. The chapter was also honored by a visit from the "Founder of Acacia ," Dr. and Mrs Marshall

Through the efforts of Brother Smith and others we published the first issue of our chapter magazine, The M i dw ay Acacian, which contained the item, appearing in Alumni News Section of this issue, concerning our "Master Builder," Dr. C. N. Gould.

Chicago.

We are just beginning our second autumn quarter in a house. Last year our chapter started with six men. Now we have twelve active members, nine of whom are living in the house, and four brothers from Missouri and Minnesota Chapters are living with us . The University of Chicago opens later than most of the universities and we are only beginning to rush men for membership, whereas many of the chapters of Acacia may by this time have their fall list of men already pledged.

It may prove interesting to know how Chicago is progressing financially. In the fall of 1913 our debt to the Grand Fraternity was more than $200 llltd by the spring of 1914 it was increased to nearly $3SO. At this stage of the game we began to decrease our debt by a few small payments, amounting in all to approximately $so. Then came the summer quarter, with a house full of men, twenty-two being active. Enough money 'was saved before September to pull our indebtedness down to $rgo, at which sum it stands at present. If we do our duty under the existing circumstances, by September, I9IS, we should have the National Chapter obligation cancelled and keep our regular initiation fees and semi-annual dues paid.

We have other financial troubles, however. There is a furniture debt burdening us. Last summer the chapter was able to pay $so on it and if figures ever tell truths Chicago should be "even with the board" before two more years pass by .

These figures will show other chapters of Acacia what Chicago is doing in the realm of finance as well as keeping up the standard of men she invites into the Fraternity. All current expenses will be met easily by our present membership and men we take in during the year.

Chicago Chapter, although not the most prominent in Acacia at the present time, is a comer, and the longer she lives the more she will be heard from. The number of Masons attending the university this year is larger than ever before. We have our eyes on several good men. It is a pleasure also to welcome brothers from other chapters into our midst. Chicago is the Midway Chapter of Acacia and we hope that every brother Acacian stopping in Chicago may pay us a visit. Acacians from sister chapters attending the university are: Brothers Lucas, Cable and Patrick, of Missouri; Tyler and Sinkie, of Nebraska , and Thurstone, of Minnesota.

A second issue of our infant publication, The Midway Acacian, will be published before the Christmas holidays. The success of the first issue is evident from the numerous congratulatory notes received from Acacians and chapters of Acacia, concerning it. For these kind compliments we are duly thankful. Credit for its success is due Brother Smith, who is now studying law in the University of Texas.

It is the intention of the chapter to enter more of the social activities of the university this year and also to add to our membership more undergraduates in order that we may attain more political importance in the student body. An effort will be made to gain admission to the local Interfraternity Council, provided conditions are ripe for such a movement.

We have a very comfortable home at S7I9 Kenwood Avenue, which will accommodate sixteen or eighteen men , as was mentioned in the June issue of THE JoURNAL. We are started on the growing path and we will brave all storms until we make Chicago the headlight of Acacia . Our present development is due largely to the untiring efforts of such men as Brothers E. A. Wreidt, C. N. Gould , J. F. Groves and others. We younger members certainly appreciate the fruits their labors have borne , and if possi-

ble, we will advance the chapter's interest even more than has been done in preceding years. hicago has a good live bunch and if she does not go through the year with flying colors it will not be because the men did not work hard and put forth their best energies to aid our constant and steady growth.

Columbia Chapter.

We are all looking forward to a banner year in Tsadhe Chapter for a large number of members are back for another year of work at Columbia, and they are all enthusiastic for Acacia and ready for a successful year. We have about eighteen men back, and every one of them promises to take an active part in the affairs of the Fraternity. There have been two meetings held to reorganize for the winter.

It was decided to have a social gathering for all Masons at the university at the earliest possible date. A committee was appointed to arrange for a smoker, when some Mason prominent in New York City or the nation will address the Columbia Masons. Plans are being made to have this a gala night for Masonry on Morningside Heights. There are a large number of Masonic pins noticeable on the campus this fall and it is expected that a couple of hundred Masons will attend the smoker. Each Acacian will interest himself in some of the promising material and an effort will be made to add strong material to Tsadhe during the next year.

The membership of Tsadhe is made up of very busy men. Men who are carrying out the ideals of Acacia in rendering good service for the benefit of humanity. Our Venerable Dean, Brother Tyson, is Secretary of the Alumni Council; Secretary, Brother Dills, is Director of Christ Church Settlement House; Brother Stenquist is teaching in the Speyer School, and Brother Waterbury is teaching in the Browning School for Boys, and Brother Fishback is Principal of the Hackensack, N. J., High School. Brother Embury is a general agent for the American Aluminum Company. Other members, too, carry outside business or are engaged in some activities. All these men carry regular courses in one of the graduate schools of the university besides their outside duties.

Brother R. S. Bonsid is back to the Law School to finish his work for a B. L. Brother Bonsib has been out of Law School for past two years and has been employed by the Bell Telephone Company.

Brother Osterholm is back with his sleeves rolled up for work in Acacia. "Ostie" has won a great reputation as an actor-he starred in the Philolexian play, and his part in the 'varsity show brought favorable comment from critics of the metropolitan newspapers.

Brother Holmes has brought honor to Acacia after one year out of college. Brother Holmes has been elected a State Senator in Alabama. Watch this big smiling boy walk right into the Governor's chair I

Brother Smith had a successful summer with the Eastern Steel Company, at Reading, Pa., and although a new member in Acacia, is anxious to take an active part at once.

Brother Embury, who did such good work on committees last year, is chairman of the smoker, when we will have all university Masons as our guests. This in itself means a great night for Masonry.

Word from last year members informs us that Brother Lake is teaching in Connecticut; Brother Armentraut is a school master in Topeka, Kansas; Brother I ohnson is teaching in Ohio, and Brother Willingham has hung out his shingle as a lawyer in Mountain View, Oklahoma.

Brother Stenquist, our delegate to the Conclave, brought back a very delightful report of the convention. We all appreciate the courtesies shown Brother Stenquist by the Michigan brothers as well as by all other Acacians. Tsadhe will be happy to have any brother visit us at Columbia.

Brother Strawman and Brother Blythe-the Siamese twins-are back for their last year at Law School.

Iowa City Chapter.

The year opened with bright prospects for Iowa Chapter. Nine old men are back and there is an abundance of good material among the new men in school.

Owing to the death of Venerable Dean Dunn, it became necessary for the chapter to fill this position. Brother John Howard was unanimously chosen for this place and on account of his experience in schoo l and the chapter he should be an especially com-

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petent leader, and we can expect Acacia to advance under his interest and care.

Brother C. C. Buckner, a charter member of Iowa Chapter, has received a professorship in the College of Education, of Kansas University. Mr. Buckner has always shown a large interest in Acacia and the chapter extends to him and Mrs. Buckner its best wishes.

The news of Venerable Dean Dunn's untimely death was a sharp blow to the chapter. Coming back to school two weeks early in order to start Acacia right and to have things ready for his school work, he was taken suddenly ill and was operated on for appendicitis. At first he rallied, but later complications set in and soon death called him to his eternal rest. His loss is mourned by the whole student body to whom he was well known. Acacia lost a sympathetic brother, the school a brilliant scholar, and the world a man of high ideals, in the death of Brother Dunn. Brothers Clement, Howard, Osborne and Showers accompanied the body to his former home.

Iowa Chapter extends greetings to all other chapters.

Penn. State Chapter.

Penn. State Chapter, at the opening of new college year, looks forward to a period of success for Acacia here, as it hopes for one in all places where chapters of the Fraternity exist. It may be of interest to our brethren to know that Acacia at the Pennsylvania State College keeps on the job in summer as well as winter. During the summer session for teachers conducted by the college, the house was kept open and eight visiting brother Masons were able to secure rooms and board there. In addition to this on July 29, a collation was served to twenty visiting Masons at the chapter house. The aims and objects of the Fraternity were made clear to all, and its ideals were emphasized in an effort to spread the name of Acacia throughout our state.

The chapter itself hopes to begin the year with ten active members in the house. Great things are looked for. A new house for 1915 is our: hope. Come see us when you are in Central Pennsylvania. We shall treat you well.

Colorado Chapter.

The University of Colorado opened on the fourteenth. Despite the fact that there is a thirteen per cent. increase in attendance, the prospects for Acacia are less hopeful than in any previous year of the chapter's life. Only two of the active men returned. The number of new men with Masonic affiliation is lamentably few. The first smoker of the year, held September 17th, brought to our attention only men w1th Greek letter obligations; these, our experience has shown, can not here be depended to keep in the chapter a vigorous, active life. The faculty and alumni members are tacing the financial problem. Before we are again called upon to send a letter to "! HK JouRNAL we hope to be equipped as the bearers of better news.

A new house at 1031 Thirteenth Street, has been leased. Furniture has been purchased. For the first time the chapter has a home in which it can claim some ownership.

During the closing months of the past year the chapter had a tmrd degree team, which was called upon by the lodges of a number of neighboring towns as well as by the two local lodges. Nothing so far has done so much to bring Acacia to the favorable notice of the Masons of Colorado.

Notes of interest could be given of brothers who have gone out from the university into the broader activities of the world, and of some who are pursuing work in other institutions. Yet all elaboration would, in the judgment of your correspondent, now be farcical. With faint pulse-beat and labored breath, the chapter now fights for life. All else is inconsequential. With full measure of devotion to the obligations laid upon us and with deep appreciation of the responsibility and privilege that now is ours, we who are within the call of the chapter's officers now purpose to keep alight the flame of our altar candles. We are hoping that we have not yet sounded the possibilities of the student body for new membership, and that shortly again all will be well. In the meantime we covet the sympathy and the possible helpfulness of our sister chapters.

Syracuse Chapter.

The Syracuse Chapter sends greetings to all her sister chapters. The year is beginning with us under more auspicious circumstances than ever before.

The close of last year found Syracuse Chapter incorporated under the New York State laws, through the efforts of Brothers Buecheler and Ransier. It also found the chapter for the first time in its own chapter house. Gradual changes in the character of the residents in our neighborhood had rendered the house which we were occupying less attractive to us, therefore we decided not to renew our lease.

Fortunately, we found a house in an excellent location only two blocks from the campus and of easy access from both of the down town car lines, thus rendering it an ideal location with respect to all the colleges of the university. This house we were able to purchase on such terms that the whole expense of repairs, taxes, interest, and payments on the principal indebtedness will be covered by our usual house rent. The reputation which we have of meeting all our bills promptly enables us to make better financial arrangements than many of the fraternities here.

Most of our men are with us again this year. Brother John A. Cryder, who was initiated at the close of the year, has entered the Law College of the University of Pennsylvania, having been granted a scholarship there. Brother Lott visited us recently while on his way to Yale, where he is to take post-graduate work in law.

There is considerable good Masonic timber in the present entering class and a number of good men already in the university have recently become Masons. With our present record for scholarship here the prospects look bright for five or six new men who will be a credit to us.

While the record of Syracuse Chapter in both athletics and debating shows that scholarship is not our only aim, yet we are not ashamed of our record in that line.

When on the opening day of this college year the scholarship records of the fraternities in Syracuse University during the past year were read by the Registrar, Acacia stood more than five per cent. above every non-professional Greek letter fraternity in the university, and of the professional fraternities, Acacia was surpassed by one fraternity alone by six-tenths of one per cent. That fraternity was the Honorary Legal Fraternity Phi Delta Phi, whose membership is made up of the men of the highest standing from the various fraternities here. Brother Lott was among these. The standing of Acacia was 83.6 per cent. This was sixteen per cent. higher than the lowest fraternity average here.

Manhattan Chapter.

This finds us started on another college year and we want to greet all the chapters and wish them a prosperous year. We feel that it has been a very profitable year with us and hope that we may be able to meet more new Acacia men from other chapters throughout the year.

The three weeks rushing season closes October roth, and the high tension will "have relaxed to a large degree. Of course the rushing is not so intense with us as with the Greeks, but we have had some keen competition for college Masons. Iq a number of cases the race has been close, but so far we have won our share.

Three of the men remained in the house during the summer months and maintained quite a social affiliation with a number of the resident sorority girls. Several camping parties were given, which involved canoeing, fishing, and a good many other sports. Space does not permit the enumeration of some of the thrilling incidents which occurred during the trips.

Brother Professor Vaughn conducted an experiment station at Abilene during the summer.

Brother Brewer devoted most of his time in furthering the interest of his father's nomination for Lieutenant-Governor.

Brother "Rosie" Potter did not return to college this term, but is employed as assistant druggist in his uncle's store at Sylvan Grove, Kansas.

All the fellows are feeling good and are taking in a bunch of "rushee" dances that are being given by the fair ones.

During the summer we were very much pleased to have with us for a day or so Brother Schrader of Missouri. It happened we could entertain him at dancing at the park. He certainly proved himself very proficient in this respect.

Brother Kabler, of Kansas University, also visited us at about the same time.

We sent out four "round robin" Acacia letters, but for some reason none have reached the house on their final trip. One came to Brother Vaughan and was read by all who were at the house this summer. lt had gathered considerable interest and was full of news. We hope that this plan may be taken up each summer.

THE ACACIA JOURNAL

A chapter of Beta Theta Pi will be installed here on October 16-17. This will make five national fraternities in this college. None of our local sororities have secured national charters, but we hear that one or two of them have good prospects.

Brother Kent visited at the Purdue Chapter house while in the east this summer. He brings us some good ideas concerning the house building proposition.

Our football season opens with Southwestern here October 3rd. On October 17th we play Nebraska, and we hope some of the good brothers from the north will not forget to come down and visit with us at that time. Our team plays at Kansas University and Missouri University and some of us will go to Kansas University and possibly to Columbia . None of our men have taken to playing football, but we will have several out for basketball practice when the season opens.

Brothers Erskine and Ferrier were elected treasurer of the Senior and Junior class respectively. They are talking about lending money to some of the fair ones who get in need.

Our first dance was given September 26 and twenty-five couples were present. This was one of our rushee parties, and the new men all vouched for a good time. Our anniversary dance will be held Saturday evening, December 5, at Elks Hall. Week-end entertainment has not been finally arranged for, but we are looking for representatives from the Kansas University and Nebraska and numerous other chapters.

A "tri chapter" party is under consideration by the Nebraska, Kansas University and Kansas State Chapters, the same to be given some time this year. This will afford an ideal time for the three chapters to talk things over and get better acquainted.

We are giving a Masonic smoker, under the auspices of the local lodge for all college Masons President Waters who has recently returned from the Philippines will give a short address relating to his trip.

Mr. Curtis Brewer, of Abilene, and John E. Jenkins, of Manhattan, were initiated the first week of September. Brother Jenkins had just returned from the Canal Zone, where he was employed as an electrician on the "Big Ditch." He presented the chapter with an elegant gavel made of lignum-vitre wood which ·was grown in the jungles of Panama.

U. A. Domsch, of Modesto, California, visited us the latter part of August. Arr a ngements have been completed whereby he and Captain "Dad" Croyle, 'u, will receive their Acacia work at the California University Chapter October 10. We feel very grateful to the men at the coast chapter for giving these men their work as both were on the petition but were unable to attend installation.

' Two of our local resident members, Brother A. L. Harris and Brother Burton S. Orr, have accepted positions at McPherson and Topeka, Kansas, respectively.

Brother George Bolz, of Topeka, has been pledged and Mr. George Ansdell of J amestowr.1, will receive the Acacia pledge October 3. '

Dr. Kubin, who was instructor in the Veterinary Department a few years ago will be here October 3 to get the Acacia work. He was one of the first members of the Masonic Club.

Brother "Pump Handle" Smith and "Erkie" Erskine are members of Gamma Sigma Delta, an Honorary Agriculuture Fraternity, which was installed last spring.

Brother "Scoop" Skourup is editor-in-chief of the Senior Annual, The Royal Purple, Vol. 7. Scoop plans to get a bunch of tips and have some pin money for the work which he is doing.

The "baby" chapter extends a hearty invitation to all Brother Acacians to visit us at any time in Manhattan, the door is never locked, and the door bell should not be rung. Wishing all a prosperous year.

Editor's Note:

Chapter letters are to be headed each month with number of men active and pledged as below :

Members Pledges

13-Brother W. H. Wood is practicing law at Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Ames Chapter.

Iow a State Ch a pter presents heartiest greetings to her sister chapters and wi shes th e m a full m ea s ure of prosperity during this new year.

Nev er ha v e the prospects been brighter for our chapter than when the pre s ent sc h oo l ye a r opened. Fourteen active members · answered the first roll call a n d since th a t time Brothers Clyde Combs, John Wooley and James Haines have taken th e lon g a nd toilsome journey. Among the 1300 new students that came to Iowa St a te Coll e ge this fall there seems to be more than the usual number of men eligible for our Fraternity. Several worthy men have been pledged and still the list is increasing. Brother Conybeare brought back an enthusiastic report of the Ninth Concla v e and of the hospitality and prosperity of our mother Chapter. Iowa State Chapter IS well pleased with the work accomplished in the national meeting. ·

In spite of the general adverse condition of financial affairs, the prospects for a new Chapter house at Ames are hopeful. Brothers T. R. Agg, Conybeare, Kinney and de Wet attended Grand Lodge in June and secured promises of assistance from several loyal Masons of the state. With the assistance of our alumni we believe that next year will find us in a home suitable for a Chapter of Acacia.

A smoker for our alumni members was the first social event of the year This enabled our new men to become acquainted with our faculty and alumni members E veryone enjoyed such a good time as always comes when good fellows get together. A dance will be given November 14th. This is the date for the College Home Coming and we trust that it will be a home-coming day for our alumni.

Cupid has wrought havoc in the ranks of our alumni during the openin g wee k s of the school year. Dr. Roy E. Brown and Miss Beulah Chamberlin w e r e m a rri ed at Nevada, Iowa, October 17, 1914. They will make their home in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Dr. N. L . Nelson also became a benedict during the month of October. " Doc" has always been a welcome visitor at the House and we hope that he will continue to call on us often and bring the new "pledge" with him.

Mr. Arthur Hall, charter member of Iowa State Chapter, was married to Miss Edith Kilburn at Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 7th.

"Shortie" Schumacher was married to Miss Ruth Vincent on August 25th. They will make their home at Kankakee, Illinois, where Mr. Schumacher has an excellent position in a manufacturing establishment. We all join in extending the best of wishes to each of these brothers.

Brother J. W. Willey, of the Minnesota Chapter, now has his home in Ames, he having tak e n charge of the veterinary extension department at the beginning of the s chool year.

Brother Amos Potts, of Ohio State Chapter, who for two years has had charge of the ceramics department of Iowa State, was employed last year in consultation work by a large brick and tile company in Mason City. His work was so satisfactory that he now has a permanent position there and has severed his connection with the College.

Brother A. H. Connolly, '14, has an excellent position with the Mason City Brick and Tile Company. We miss "Mike's" line of talk. and his happy smile this year, but he still visits in Ames, and incidentally at the Acac1a House, as frequently as poss1ble.

Brother F. V. Farr, '14, is employed by Swift & Company in the purchasing department.

Brother D. B. Palmer is one of the state veterinary inspectors of Minnesota His headquarters are in Minneapolis and he makes his home with our sister chapter th e re .

Brother J. B. Patterson, 'r4, is now located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. manipulated the hot sands so successfully that he has now been promoted to a pos1bon with the Bell Telephone Co.

Brother Conybeare always wears a smile since the arrival of his son and heir , John Furniss Conybeare, September 28th.

Brother J. C. Cort, '14, is now taking graduate work in the animal hu s ba ndr y department.

Brother Knute Espe spent part of the summer investigating in Europe Like many other Americans, Brother .Espe had numerous d1fficult1es m geting back to the good old U. S. A. after the begmnmg of the war.

EDITORIAL PROBLEMS.

The Conclave ordered that the minutes of the last two Conclaves be publi shed in the November issue of THE JouRN AL, and they refused "to cut" the chapter letters and the sections recommended by their Committee on Jo u RNA L; as a re sult we have an unusually large JouRN AL. The minutes of the two Conclaves with the articles relating thereto, if separated, would mak e a J ou RNA L nearl y as large as any previously published. The fifty pages of ex tra material meant an additional expense in printing. The tabulated stati stics meant an additional expense which amounted to more than the cost of compo s ing and running fifteen pages of ordinary printed matter. The larger volume added to the express and mailing costs.

The Committee on the Budget set aside the same amount as required for the publication of last year's JouRNAL. ·

The Editor, in an attempt to fulfil the requirements of Conclave regarding the matter to appear in THE JouRNAL, and desiring to keep within the limits of the Budget, found that the cost of publication would have to be reduced materially. The change in cover is a reduction in the cost of production. Machine-finished paper of a lighter weight had to be substituted for the coated paper heretofore used. The cost is still above one-third of the fund provided for THE JouRNAL by the Budget.

In order to keep within the provision of the Budget, it is necessary that the printed matter in the two issues be shortened. The chapter letters in a great many cases are too long. Franklin chapter's letter, for example, could be reduced. The length of the letter is not an index as to the material it contains. A good chapter editor should be able to tell of the conditions at his chapter in one-half to three-quarters of a page.

Chapter letters will not be received for the next issue unless they reach the As sociate Editor on or before January 1st, for his correction. The Editor has received and accepted letters for this issue up to and including November 4th. Hereafter the Grand Secretary will be notified of all late letters and the fine provided for will be imposed.

w. G. MANN, Acting Grand Editor.