REVIEW AND CRITICISM. 
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of usefulness than it has attempted before. This meeting 
will be better valued in the future years than we can estimate 
at present. It presented and adopted a revised constitution 
and by-laws, in which are more carefully defined its aim and 
plan of working than ever before. It has placed stronger 
safeguards around its future list of members, and laid a just 
responsibility on each of its members’ introducing for consid¬ 
eration candidates for membership. It has changed its meet¬ 
ings from two to one, this to take place in September of every 
year, and to last two or more days, and no one step in its 
history ever promised greater benefit and usefulness than 
this. It means more thoughtful, more considerate work, 
more united and fruitful labors in discharging the grave re¬ 
sponsibilities it upholds for our country. It means better 
papers, better reports; for the members will be guaranteed a 
fuller hearing and more deliberate enforcement of plans sug¬ 
gested for the general good of the profession. It promises a 
wise stimulus for different sections of the United States to 
compete for its meetings, and this means a greater member¬ 
ship and a more diffuse interest in its work throughout our 
whole country. 
The removal of the Board of Censors from elective to ap¬ 
pointive offices by the President is a wise step. A President 
should always have his cabinet in sympathy with him. Those 
of his own appointment must be such as will sustain, uphold 
and work for the completion of his general plans, and it af¬ 
fords for the welfare of all the component parts of the Associ¬ 
ation. It can be so appointed by the presiding officer as to 
provide justly and equitably for all the interests of the Asso¬ 
ciation involved, both in the sense of locality and of the vari¬ 
ous schools represented or seeking recognition within our 
body. Another point it brings out, and that is the greater 
necessity for real work by the President; for the responsibil¬ 
ity for the faithful execution of the yearly work will no longer 
be divided and scattered, but the Association will place at 
the proper door the responsibility, and by a defeat or re-elec¬ 
tion ever have a strong weapon of decision as to the proper 
progress of our work. Many other minor changes were 
