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name of the association, to extend separate representation to the 

 departments of mechanic arts of the colleges, and to limit the number 

 of sections to two, were voted down. Amendments were adopted 

 striking- out the provisions requiring a s^'^nopsis of the proceedings of 

 each section to be presented to the association at the close of every 

 convention, and requiring the chairman of each section to make at the 

 annual convention a report of the progress during the year along lines 

 pertaining to his section. An amendment was adopted providing 

 for the election of officers by ballot upon nomination made upon the 

 floor of the convention. An amendment relative to the program for the 

 annual convention provides for the distribution of programs sixty days 

 before the annual convention of the association, and contains the fol- 

 lowing provisions: "The program for a convention of the association 

 shall designate the time and place of the convention, shall present a 

 well-prepared order of business and of subjects for discussion, and shall 

 provide an arrangement for the meeting of the general sessions and of 

 the sections. The subjects provided for consideration b}' a section at 

 any convention of the association shall concentrate the deliberations 

 of the section upon not more than two main lines of discussion, which 

 lines shall so far as possible be related. Not more than one-third of 

 the working time of any annual convention of the association shall be 

 assigned to miscellaneous business." The provision for amending the 

 constitution was also made more specific. The executive committee 

 was authorized to appoint, subject to the approval of the association, 

 '"an advisor}' committee on program, whose duty it shall be to prepare 

 a program of topics to be discussed in general or sectional meeting at 

 the next annual convention and to secure presentation of appropriate 

 papers and engagement of suitable speakers under the provisions of 

 the constitution and by-laws of the association, said program to be 

 submitted to the executive committee for approval and distribution at 

 least ninety days in advance of the annual meeting." The following 

 were appointed members of this committee: E. A. Bryan, W. H. 

 Jordan, H. W. Tyler, C. E. Thorne, and H. T. Fernald. ' 



The committee on graduate study at Washington reported that no 

 progress had been made in securing a bureau in Washington for the 

 administration of graduate work since the last convention. The com- 

 mittee was directed to exhaust every eifort to devise a plan whereby 

 graduate study and research in the several departments of the Govern- 

 ment may be efficient!}' organized and directed under Government 

 control, and in the meantime to secure, if practicable, the same oppor- 

 tunities for study and research in other departments of the Govern- 

 ment as are at present afforded graduate students in the Department 

 of Agriculture. A resolution was also adopted l)y the association 

 recording its appreciation of the action of the Government in making 



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