SIGMA XI 



It becomes my very pleasant duty this evening to bid 

 you formal welcome to the associations and privileges of 

 the brotherhood known as the Sigma Xi. In the dis- 

 charge of this duty I am also to set before you very 

 briefly the aims and purposes of this organization and to 

 encourage you to yet more serious and earnest effort in 

 fields of original research such as the Sigma Xi is set to 

 foster. I bid you welcome to a goodly company. Sigma 

 Xi was organized in 1886; it has ever been very exclu- 

 sive, but now includes in its membership all the prin- 

 cipal scientific men of the country, and has a chapter in 

 every prominent university in the United States. Its 

 motto is STTOV&UV Hwu>vs, companions in research, those 

 who strive together in study. The objects of the society 

 may not be better set forth than in Article I, Section 2 of 

 the constitution : 



' ' The object of this Society shall be to encourage origi- 

 nal investigation in science, pure and applied ; by meet- 

 ing for the discussion of scientific subjects; by the pub- 

 lication of such scientific matter as may be desirable ; by 

 establishing fraternal relations among investigators in 

 the scientific centers; and by the granting of the privi- 

 lege of membership to such students as have during their 

 college course given special promise of future achieve- 

 ment.'' 



The conditions of membership are, as you observe, pe- 



