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use of the meeting facilities were the Commission of Fine Arts, on 

 January 20 and 21, and the Federal Board of Vocational Education 

 on June 13. 



The eleventh annual meeting of the American Farm Economic 

 Association occupied the auditorium and committee room with after- 

 noon and evening sessions on December 30, morning and afternoon 

 sessions on December 31, and a morning session on January 1. On 

 December 30 room 42-43 was utilized for a conference of representa- 

 tives of national organizations engaged in rural social work with 

 day and evening sessions. 



The annual convention of the Northern Nut Growers' Association 

 convened in the auditorium, with morning and evening sessions on 

 October 7, and morning and afternoon sessions on October 8, and an 

 exhibit of nuts and mats in room 42-43. 



The American Institute of Architects was granted the auditorium, 

 committee rooms, and the central portion of the foyer for the fifty- 

 fourth annual convention of the institute, from May 11 to 13, and 

 the Second National Architectural Exhibition, from May 12 to 19, 

 inclusive, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging a wider 

 public interest in architecture. In connection with this convention 

 the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture met in room 

 42-43, on May 9 and 10, with an evening session in the auditorium 

 on the latter date. The sessions of the institute included, besides 

 meetings each day in the auditorium and room 42-43, one evening ses- 

 sion in the auditorium on May 11 and a morning session on May 14 in 

 room 42-43. The exhibition was inaugurated with a formal view 

 on the evening of May 12, when the foyer and north lobby were 

 opened to the invited guests of the institute and the public from 

 8.30 to 11 p. m. The drawings, photographs, etc., of this collection 

 were installed on temporary floor screens placed either side and down 

 the central portion of the foyer. A number of the exhibits of the war 

 collections were inclosed by the screens, some of the cases being moved 

 between the piers, and screens built on either side of them. The 

 walls in the auditorium lobby were also used for exhibiting drawings 

 and photographs, and a special exhibit belonging to the Architects' 

 Small House Service Bureau, of Minnesota, was installed on portable 

 screens against the south wall of the north lobby, either side of the 

 entrance to the foyer. 



The twelfth annual convention of the American Federation of 

 Arts convened in Washington on May 18, 19, and 20, 1921. The 

 afternoon session on the 18th was held in the Museum auditorium 

 and was devoted to the general subject of art and the people. It 

 was opened with a demonstration by Mr. Ross Crane, of the Better 

 Homes Institute of the Art Institute of Chicago, of " Art in the 

 home." The stage was set as a living room, with mantel, windows, 



