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tive  bodies  within  the  Association  and  as  a  part  of  it  can  not  be 
considered  innovations. 
Many  alterations,  patches  and  additions  have,  from  time  to  time, 
been  made  to  and  upon  the  organic  law  and  the  by-laws  of  the 
Association,  necessarily,  to  meet  changed  conditions,  and  to  make 
room  for  progress  and  for  the  growth  of  the  Association  ;  this  has 
been  done  until  it  can  be  done  no  longer.  In  place  of  this  odd, 
many-sided  form,  an  entirely  new  superstructure  must  be  built, 
affording  all  the  facilities  and  conveniences  for  better  living  and  for 
a  greater  growth.  This  must  be  built,  however,  upon  the  original 
foundation,  which  is  still  firm  enough  and  broad  enough  to  support 
our  greatest  needs. 
It  is  because  of  considerable  study  given  the  form  of  organization 
for  local  branches,  when  chairman  of  the  committee  on  their  organi- 
zation, that  I  now  venture  to  suggest  the  forms  I  have  attached 
hereto,  hoping  they  will,  at  least,  serve  as  a  basis  for  discussion. 
The  explanatory  preamble  and  Article  I  of  the  Constitution, 
which  gives  the  name  to  the  Association  and  sets  forth  its  aims 
and  objects,  will  be  found  to  be,  and  should  be,  an  actual  restoration 
which  will  answer  every  requirement  of  to-day  while  pleasantly 
and  profitably  linking  us  to  the  golden  past. 
Article  II  seeks  to  define  the  character  of  an  effective  association 
and  to  describe  its  component  parts,  while  Article  III  is  intended  to 
fully  describe  the  various  kinds  of  members  of  both  General  Body 
and  Council  and  places  restrictions  upon  the  delegates,  that  they 
may  be  familiar  with  the  work  of  the  Association.  The  officers  are 
named  and  their  elections  are  set  forth  in  Article  IV.  The  other 
articles  of  the  Constitution  are  intended  to  protect  the  funds  and 
endowments  from  undue  attack  and  to  preserve  the  power  of  the 
General  Body  by  giving  it  the  ability  to  make  and  alter  the  by-laws 
governing  the  Council  and  Board  of  Trustees  and  to  amend  the 
Constitution,  which  seems  to  cover  all  essential  points. 
Naturally,  those  by-laws  intended  to  regulate  the  conduct  of  the 
Council,  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  the  Sections  are  of  most  import- 
ance, and  while  these  should  be  ample  and  safe,  they  should  be 
extremely  simple  and  very  elastic.  There  should  be  opportunity  for 
the  display  of  originality  in  the  management  of  the  meetings  and 
arrangement  of  programmes,  as  the  proposed  Committee  on  Pro- 
grammes and  Committee  on  Time  and  Place  of  Meeting  will  permit. 
