record book containing the personal history and address of each active and alumnus member, to render such aid as is necessary to the cataloguer and to chronicle the work of the chapter by its letters to the BRIEF. Many chapters have practically no work for the historian, and keep practically no records, but the progressive chapters are more and more paying it strict attention.

Our Fraternity, more than any other, needs an accurate directory of its members. The directory should originate with the historian, and should be accurate, for the chapters at all times need the addresses of the active members, and the addresses of the alumni, whenever invitations are to be sent for special meetings, or they need to be reached on business matters. Alumni in practice are repeatedly writing the historian for the addresses of their scattered classmates. With the historian's records in proper form, the work of issuing the catalogue will always be much easier and more accurate. No catalogue has been issued since 1896, and consequently there is no published record of the locations of those who have graduated since that date, and who number nearly three thousand, and each chapter's own record must largely supply the needs.

The letters to the BRIEF, to be written by the historian, are the permanent records of the serious and legal part of the chapter work. They should not list the members and initiates, for these names are on the rolls of the chapter and of the secretary, but they should outline and summarize the news, meetings, addresses, and discussions, so that they will be interesting and instructive to the other chapters. They should be letters by law students to other law students. They should summarize the legal work of a legal Fraternity and be worthy of the historian's best efforts. If they do not receive such efforts the historian is not properly representing the chapter.

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Ranney chapter, at its initiation banquet at the Colonial Hotel, Cleveland, on March 21, prepared a program that in many ways worthy effort of a chapter of a legal fraternity. From it we take the following:

Initiates. To honorary membership: Newton D. Baker.

"The king's officer, the attorney-general, who gives the court to understand and be informed of the matter in question."-Blk. III-261.

To active membership: Maurice Vinton Semple, Clarence Millard Finfrock, Bernard James Guthery, Vance Stewart.

"A raw and inexperienced youth, in the most dangerous season of life, transplanted on a sudden into the midst of allurements to pleasure."-Blk. I-31.

Menu.-"As to excess in diet there still remains one ancient statute unrepealed which ordains, that no man shall be served at dinner or supper, with more than two courses; except upon some great holidays there specified, in which he may be served with three."-Blk. IV-170.

"And there are many wholesome statutes, chiefly passed in the reign of King James I, which regulate the licensing of ale houses, and punish persons found tippling therein."-Blk. ÏV–64.

Talks." Nor will these researches be altogether void of rational entertainment as well as use; as in viewing the majestic ruins of Rome or Athens, of Balbec of Palmyra, it administers both pleasureand instruction to compare them with the draughts of the same edifices in their pristine splendor."-Blk. II-44.

Fred L. Taft, toastmaster.

"For the master hath the superintendence and charge of all his household."-Blk. I-431.

John Chamberlain-"A Way to Win."

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The misdemeanor of persons pretending to use witchcraft or tell fortunes is still deservedly punished with a year's imprisonment, and standing four times in the pillory."-Blk. IV-62.

Judge Alexander Hadden-" When We Were Boys.'

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Though, in the course of our observations, we may have occasion to search pretty highly into the antiquities, yet surely no industrious student will imagine his time misemployed."-Blk. IV-44. E. L. Skeel" Phi Delta Phi."

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Gentlemen may here associate with gentlemen of their own rank and degree. Nor are their conduct and studies left entirely to their own discretion; but regulated by a discipline so wise and exact that their conformity to its rules (which does at present so much honour to our youth) is not more the effect of constraint than of their own inclinations and choice."-Blk. I-26.

Judge Robert W. Taylor-" The Lawyer as a Citizen."

"The protection of The Liberty of Britain is a duty which they owe to themselves, who enjoy it; to their ancestors who transmitted

it down; and to their posterity, who will claim at their hands this, the best birthright, and noblest inheritance of mankind."-Blk. IV-443.

Newton D. Baker-“The Double Standard.”

"The punishment of bakers breaking the assize was anciently to stand in the pillory."-Blk. IV-157.

Judge F. A. Henry-" The Lawyer as Business Man." "Henry the First found it expedient, when first he came to the crown, to ingratiate himself with the people."-Blk. IV–420.

DENVER ALUMNUS CLUB.

The Denver Alumnus Club, organized in great part by the efforts of W. B. Shattuc, was granted a charter by the Council on June 18 pursuant to the following petition:

To the Honorable, the General Council of the Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi:

We, the undesigned graduate members of the legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, desiring to promote acquaintance and fellowship among the members of Phi Delta Phi residing in Denver, Colorado, and vicinity, hereby respectfully petition your Honorable Council to grant to the undersigned a charter for an organization to be known as the Denver Alumni Chapter of Phi Delta Phi in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of the national Fraternity. Respectfully submitted,

C. S. Thomas, Kent, '71; Thos. R .Woodrow, Kent, 'oo; Wilbur F. Denions, Brewer, '02; George C. Manly, Kent, '87; Lucius W. Hay, Story, '89; W. E. Foley, Brewer, '05; C. M. Killegg, Brewer, '02; Hary C. Dairs, Conkling, '90; Elson H. Whitney, Brewer, 05; G. C. Bartels, Kent, '79; William H. Dickson, Booth, '92; Henry B. Teller, Waite, '02; Peter H. Holme, Choate, '03; Chas. F. Carmine, Brewer, '04; Wm. A. Moore, Story, '88; Tyson S. Dines, Brewer; R. J. Pitkin, Waite, '88; H. H. Tangemare, Green, '02; F. W. Barry, Lincoln, 'or; Chas. H. Haines, McClain, '02; Marcus Summerfield, Green; Clyde H. Osborn, Miller, '00; Luzerne A. Richey, Swan, '97; H. S. Harron, Gibson, 'oo; J. W. Stephenson, Brewer, '05; Fred W. Wright, Brewer, '02; Archibald A. Lee, Brewer, '05; Geo. P. Winters, Brewer, '04, and William B. Shattuc, Brewer, '02.

DENVER, COLORADO, May 1, 1906.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI CLUB.

Philadelphia Alumni Club of the Phi Delta Phi has completed a very successful and encouraging year. The interest of the members has been steadily maintained. We have held two very successful dinners during the year. These dinners were held at the University Club and were quite largely attended. At the first dinner we were very fortunate in having with us William A. Glasgow, Esq., of the Philadelphia Bar, who has become prominent recently by reason of his work as counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Glasgow delivered a very interesting and instructive address, which dealt with his experiences as a practitioner in the courts of Virginia. His address also raised several interesting questions of practice which led to a general discussion as to the difference between the Pennsylvania and the Virginia practice. This discussion was participated in by members of the club and was brilliant and instructive.

At the second dinner we had expected as the speaker John F. Lewis, Esq., a member of the Philadelphia Bar, and very well known as an admiralty lawyer. Unfortunately, Mr. Lewis was unable to be present. Speeches, however, were made by different members of the club, the chief topic being the political crisis in the city of Philadelphia by reason of the reform movement.

The success of these dinners has been most encouraging and we intend to continue them. They serve to bring together members of the Fraternity, who meet each other but seldom, and lead to the continuation of friendships.

The active members of Gibson chapter at the University Law School take great interest in the affairs of the chapter and represent the best element in the Law School. They maintain the high standard of membership which the chapter has always sought to attain. The initiations held during the past year have brought in a number of men with high Law School records. They insure the future growth and success of the chapter. The meeting room of the chapter is well furnished and is one of the best in the Law School. The alumni frequently attend the meetings and initiations, and have a strong interest in its progress. F. K. S. PHILADELPHIA, July 25, 1906.

DANIELS-BUFFALO UNIV. LAW SCHOOL.

Little has transpired since the writing of our last letter. No new members have been initiated recently, although several excellent

men are under consideration. At the last meeting of the chapter officers were elected for next year and the Fraternity papers, syllabi and memoranda turned over to them. The finances of the chapter are in sound condition and it will be our aim to maintain them so. The examinations have been held, but the results have not been announced. We feel that Phi Delta Phi has done herself justice and will continue to do so. Next fall we intend to scrutinize carefully the entering class and endeavor to obtain men who will be not only beneficial to the chapter but amiable as chums.

In the April number of the BRIEF we noticed the suggestion to visit Osgoode chapter in Toronto, Canada, to see why their officers have not yet been reported. Although we have not done anything concerning it yet, we hope that during the summer some of us will be able to visit Toronto, and see if we can in any way ameliorate the condition at Osgoode. The future alone will tell how successful

we are.

Among the new lecturers announced for the fall term of the Buffalo Law School are the following: Hon. Cuthbert W. Pound, Cg. Hon., who will lecture in "Crimes"; Harvey D. Blakeslee, Jr., Dan., '02, who will conduct a course in "Crimes," and Chauncey J. Hamlin, Dan., '05, who will lecture in "Personal Property." These men will be very valuable additions to the Law School.

At a meeting of the lawyers of the eighth judicial district in Buffalo, June 22, to express their preferences for judges of the Supreme Court of the 1230 lawyers of this district 581 were present and voted. Hon. Cuthbert W. Pound was the highest on the list with 347 votes. Hon. Louis W. Marcus was fifth with 189 votes. William H. Hotchkiss was sixth with 113 votes, and Wallace Thayer was ninth with 93 votes. This is a good showing for Phi Delta Phi in this section.

BUFFALO, N. Y., June 16.

G. R. G.

FULLER-CHICAGO KENT COLLEGE OF LAW.

On May 12 the chapter held its regular monthly meeting at the Victoria Hotel and elected the following officers for the coming year: Mortin Cornelius, consul; George W. Young, pro-consul; Clayton W. Mogg, gladiator; John W. Neil, Scriptor; Richard J. Callahan, tribune; Edward F. Brubaker, editor and historian. William J. Pringle, of the law faculty, was proposed to honorary membership and was initiated at the monthly meeting of June 16. Mr. Pringle is prominent at the Chicago bar and is one of the active rep