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2. The Executive Committee has been reduced to three mem-
bers, viz., Grand President, Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer.

3. The offices of Grand Recording Secretary and Grand Corre-
sponding Secretary have been combined, and a new officer, Grand
Registrar, has been given the duty of keeping fraternity rolls and
official copies of important documents.

4. Biennial meetings of the Grand Council have been sub-
stituted for annual meetings, the next stated meeting to be held on
the third Thursday in June, 1910. The place of meeting will be
announced by the Executive Committee several months before the
meeting, after considering applications of chapters wishing to have
the Grand Council meet with them.

5. A system of meeting expenses of stated meetings has been
adopted which will equalize the burden of chapters.

6. Provision has been made for publishing a history of the fra-
ternity in 1909 and in every twelfth year thereafter.

Most of these changes and regulations have been brought about
by changes in the By-Laws, but some few are effected by consti-
tutional amendment, subject to chapter ratification. The reasons for
the more radical changes are largely self-evident, and the subjects
are discussed in detail in the report of the Grand President, which,
as has already been said, has been ordered distributed to all chapters.

The recent Grand Council meeting, the last stated session of
that body since December, 1906, marked the end of a very successful
period of our fraternity history. What the eighteen months have
meant to the order in its inner life and development is known to all
who have kept at all in touch with the life of the national govern-
ment and of the chapters. To a certain extent this development is
reflected i n the growth which is apparent to the outside world;
we may well be proud of the fact that our roll of collegiate chap-
ters has been doubled during the year and a half, without any low-
ering of the high standard which has restrained us from seeking
rapid expansion. The increase in our roll of alumnae chapters from
one to five, shows that the fraternity has kept its hold upon the mem-
bers after college days, and that as the number of these "old girls"
increased in the larger centres, the need is felt for an organization
of alumnae which shall in itself be an integral part of the fraternity
structure.