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petitioned the Conference for membership. Five hundred copies were
too few this year on account of the increased interest in the Confer-
ence. Gamma Phi Beta decided at her November, 1905, convention
to co-operate with the Conference in all points. The Conference
Secretary took a vote of Grand Presidents at the close of the Confer-
ence to permit the Michigan sororities to pledge non-matriculates.
The Grand Presidents voted to ratify the recommendations of the
Fourth Conference, and Michigan was granted the dispensation for
one year. During the year, the Secretary, at the suggestion of Miss
Wheeler, Kappa Kappa Gamma, investigated the best points of the
constitution of Women's Social Service Leagues then in operation,
with the result that a model or sample constitution was formed. This
has been given wide circulation, having been sent to the Deans of
state institutions and to many interested persons. In December, a
conference of Deans of women of state institutions was held in
Chicago and the secretary of the Conference was asked to arrange a
session with representatives of the Conference. Consequently the
Chicago delegates to the Fourth Inter-Sorority Conference were
present and a pleasant and helpful meeting was the result. Letters
from Deans of fifteen institutions have since been received by the
Secretary. The Wisconsin Pan-Hellenic sent a petition for investiga-
tion of local conditions to the Grand Presidents of sororities and to
the conference delegates. I t was decided to send an investigating
committee before the close of the school year. Most of the sororities
having Wisconsin chapters sent a delegate. The committee secured
valuable information concerning the situation. A l l Grand Presidents
except two have unconditionally approved the constitution for the
Inter-Sorority Conference which was proposed by the Fourth Con-
ference. The expense of the Conference for each sorority this year
is two dollars (2.00). The Pan-Hellenics have done a good work
through the year with but few difficulties arising to detract from the
whole. The Secretary recommends that the Conference formulate a
working constitution for Pan-Hellenics for their assistance.

Reports were then read by the delegates from the several sorori-
ties with the exception of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Phi, Alpha
Chi Omega. These three reports were deferred until September 15.
The reports included the sorority's progress in Pan-Hellenic and
Social Service work, convention action bearing upon the Inter-So-
rority Conference, conflicts and difficulties arising from the inter-
sorority compact, attitude of the sorority toward granting excep-