ANNUAL MEETING G17 



Committee on President's Address: Wyman Elliot, C. W. 

 Sampson and C. L. Smith. 



Committee on Obituaries: J. S. Harris. 



Committee on Final Resolutions: L. K. Moyer. F. H. Nutter 

 and A. H. Brackett. 



On motion of Mr. C. L. Smith, the meeting adjourned to 7:30 

 p. M. 



EVENING SESSION. 



Tuesday, December 3d. 

 The meetin^: was called to order at 8 o'clock, by President 

 Underwood. 



Pres. Underwood: The first thing on our program this even- 

 ing is the president's address, and it seemed to me in our soci- 

 ety it would be a great deal better to give up that part and let 

 the members do the talking, and let them really furnish the 

 president's address, and only furnish the recommendations that 

 might be expected to come from my office in the interests of 

 the society. I have always tried, at least for a good many 

 years, to see how much work I could get out of other people. 

 In fact, it is the study of my life to see how much responsibil- 

 ity I can shirk and put on the shoulders of others, and how 

 well I can recompense them for doing the work. I do not 

 want, however, to appear to be either unwilling or wholly in- 

 competent to fill out the program, and when the secretary 

 wrote me and sent me a draft of the proposed program, as he 

 did the other members of the executive board I told him 

 to leave out the president's address. He did not obey my or- 

 ders, and so I suppose I must say something to you in the na- 

 ture of an address this evening. 



President Underwood then delivered the following annual 

 address: (See index, ) 



Press. Underwood: The next thing on the program is the 

 annual report of the executive board. 



Mr. Elliot: I hope the members will forgive me for not 

 making a report in detail of all that has been done during the 

 year by the executive board. There are some things that 

 we are happy to leave out and cover; let them be buried in 

 oblivion. There are others that we are glad to call your atten- 

 tion to. 



Mr. Wyman Elliot, as chairman of the executive board, then 

 submitted the following report: (See index ) 



