RULES OF

THE COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS.

The attention of members is called to the following Rules of the Committee on Admissions, as recently amended:

SECTION 4. A stated meeting of the Committee shall be held on the first Wednesday evening of each month except the months of July, August and September.

SEC. 10. Names of candidates shall be entered in a book to be kept in the office of the Club. In such book shall also be entered the college at which each candidate graduated, the year of his graduation, the degree received by the candidate, his residence and his profession or occupation. If the candidate have no profession or occupation, that fact shall be stated. If the eligibility of the candidate depend upon an honorary degree, the fact that the degree is honorary and the year when the degree was received shall be stated. Until such entry is made and signed by the proposer and seconder, the name of a candidate shall not be posted. The Secretary of the Committee may sign for members who are absent from the city, upon their written request.

The proposer of a candidate for admission to the Club is required to send to the Committee on Admissions a letter of recommendation, giving the name and place of residence of the candidate, the College at which he graduated, the year of his graduation, the degree received by him, the profession or occupation of the candidate, and such statement of his qualifications as the proposer may deem proper. If the candidate have no profession or occupation, that fact shall be stated in the proposer's letter, and if the

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eligibility of the candidate depend upon an honorary degree, the fact that the degree is honorary and the year when the degree was received shall also be stated in the letter, together with the other facts which make the candidate eligible under the provisions of the Constitution relating to the holders of honorary degrees. A letter of recommendation is also required from the seconder.

SEC. 11. If the name of any candidate is called up for consideration at a meeting of the Committee, and it shall then appear that no letter of recommendation has been received from the proposer or the seconder, the name shall be passed; and the Secretary shall immediately notify the proposer and the seconder that the nomination cannot be acted upon without a proper letter of recommendation. In case no such letters are received before the next following stated meeting, the candidate shall be deemed withdrawn, and his name shall be dropped from the list.

SEC. 12. Letters, except those of the proposer and seconder, relating to candidates whose names have been finally acted upon, shall forthwith be destroyed, unless by a vote of the Committee any particular letter be preserved.

SEC. 16. The name of no candidate for non-resident membership shall be considered by the Committee unless a letter respecting his candidacy shall have been received from a resident member of the Club, and such candidate be personally known to some member of the Committee present.

SEC. 18. Names of candidates shall be posted as soon as subdivision 1 of Section 10 of the Rules shall have been complied with, although three years may not then have elapsed since the conferring of the degree or since graduation. But the name of a candidate shall not be entered in the candidates' book, nor posted, before he shall have received the degree or graduated.

SEC. 19. Candidates for membership must be personally known to at least one member of the Committee present.

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SEC. 20. When a candidate, who is a non-resident and is proposed as such, becomes a resident before the time when his name is first considered by the Committee, his name shall be transferred to the resident list under same date as that upon which he was posted as a non-resident.

When a candidate, who is a resident and is proposed as such, becomes a non-resident before the time when his name is first considered by the Committee, his name shall be transferred to the non-resident list under same date as that upon which he was posted as a resident.

A. HENRY MOSLE,

Secretary of the Committee on Admissions.

RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL.

Passed March 13, 1899.

No member of the Council shall hereafter propose or second a candidate for membership in the Club, nor write any letters in relation to any candidate proposed.

THE LIBRARY.

REPORT FOR THE YEAR

FROM MARCH 1, 1899, TO FEBRUARY 28, 1900.

The accessions of the present financial year are registered in the catalogue as Nos. 15,836 to 17,340.

Of these 1504 new volumes, 413 were presented, 171 were made up of current periodicals bound at a cost of $288.70, 4 were Club memorabilia (bound for $6.40), and the other 927 were bought at a cost of $2246.67.

The growth of the Library during the eleven years in which the present librarian has had charge of it (10,810 volumes, registered from No. 6530, in March, 1889, to No. 17,340 in February, 1900) is shown in the following summary :

Totals for eleven years, 6768 1271 2771 10,810 $18,880