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4.  To  amend  Article  XI  of  the  constitution  as  follows:  Change 
the  words  "  three-fourths"  in  the  eighth  line  to  u  two-thirds."  Also 
add  to  said  article  the  following  :  "  Should  such  amendment  receive 
the  affirmative  votes  of  a  majority  of  the  members  represented  at 
any  meeting,  but  less  than  two-thirds  of  the  total  membership,  the 
votes  of  the  members  not  represented  at  said  meeting  shall  be  taken 
by  mail,  providing  the  affirmative  votes  of  all  the  members  not  so 
represented  would  be  sufficient  to  carry  such  amendment." 
The  president's  address  was  referred  to  a  committee  consisting 
of  Professors  Remington,  Anderson  and  Koch,  who  recommended 
that  proposition  No.  1,  relating  to  conditional  membership,  should 
lay  over  for  one  year,  although  the  committee  favored  the  prin- 
ciple involved  in  its  adoption.  The  committee  concurred  in  the  re- 
commendations of  the  president  in  regard  to  the  amendments  to  the 
constitution  in  Articles  IV  and  XI,  and  the  recommendation  that 
delegates  be  again  sent  to  the  annual  meeting  of  the  National  As- 
sociation of  Retail  Druggists  be  carried  out.  They  further  recom- 
mended that  the  proceedings  of  the  Conference  be  published  in  a 
cloth-bound  volume  and  that  the  colleges  represented  in  the  Con- 
ference be  assessed  a  sufficient  amount  to  pay  for  them. 
The  report  of  the  committee  was  unanimously  adopted. 
The  report  of  the  secretary-treasurer  was  read  and  adopted. 
The  report  of  the  Executive  Committee  was  made  by  the  chair- 
man, Professor  W.  A.  Puckner,  who  announced  the  programme  of 
the  meeting,  and  also  that  the  Buffalo  College  of  Pharmacy,  the 
New  Orleans  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Notre  Dame  University  De- 
partment of  Pharmacy  had  been  elected  to  membership  during  the 
year  by  mail  vote. 
The  committee  appointed  to  consider  the  amendment  with  refer- 
ence to  the  status  of  night-schools  reported  adversely  upon  action 
being  taken  at  this  time. 
A  communication  from  the  Syllabus  Committee  was  read  by  Pro- 
fessor Gregory,  and  on  motion  received  and  ordered  published  in 
the  proceedings. 
Dr.  J.  T.  McGill  read  a  paper  entitled,  "  A  Resolution  in  Regard 
to  Pharmaceutical  Degrees,"  in  which  the  following  was  presented : 
Resolved :  That  the  American  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Fa- 
culties recommends : 
I.  A  minimum  preliminary  educational  requirement  of  high-school 
