and their workers will decide that their time and money can be 

 more profitably used by attendance at these larger and more 

 general gatherings than at the special meetings of this body." 



At the Twelfth Annual Convention, in Washington, November 

 15-17, 1898, the proposed amendments were discussed at two 

 sessions and the proposals defeated by a vote of forty-four to 

 eight. Members are referred to this report, pages 46 and 54, for a 

 good summary of the conditions existing and for an illuminating 

 discussion by experienced members of the Association. 



Before adjournment at San Francisco a " Committee on the 

 revision of the Constitution" was appointed. This Committee 

 reported at the Fourteenth Annual Convention, held at New 

 Haven, November 13-15, 1900, with but two amendments, one 

 referring to the programme and one to membership. The article 

 on membership as proposed read as follows; the italics being the 

 amendment: " Every college established under the act of 

 Congress approved July 2, 1862, or receiving the benefits of the 

 act of Congress, approved August 30, 1890, and every department 

 of mechanic arts so established, and every agricultural experiment 

 station, etc. 



Action on this amendment was taken at the Fifteenth Annual 

 Convention, held in Washington, November 12-14, 1901. See 

 Proceedings, page 50. This action struck out the proposal to 

 give representation to the department of mechanic arts, evidently 

 on the theory that institutions and not departments should have 

 representation. The section on mechanic arts was continued 

 as before. On pages 38-40 of the Proceedings for 1901 will be 

 found an admirable report on the scope of the work for the section 

 in mechanic arts by H. W. Tyler, Chairman of the Section for 

 that year. 



At the Sixteenth Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 

 October 7-9, 1902, a proposal to amend the constitution was made. 

 See Proceedings of 1902, page 44. The proposed amendments 

 provided for two sections. (1) A Section on College Work and 

 Administration; (2) A Section on Experiment Station Work. 

 The amendments proposed provided further that each section 

 might create such divisions as it may from time to time find 

 desirable. 



At the Seventeenth Annual Convention, in Washington, 

 November 17-19, 1903, the amendments were adopted by a vote 



