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Rh graduate members of the fraternity and which owns a fine modern club house, eight stories high. erected in 1907 at 136 West 44th Street, near the heart of the city. The house and furnishings represent a total investment of about $300,000. The club has about 1000 members, has been in operation for 25 years and is the center of all the activities of the fraternity.

Clarence A. Seward, Hobart '48, when president of the fraternity in 1897, founded the three Seward Scholarships the total endowment of which now amounts to $25,000. One is always held by a member of the Hamilton chapter; the second and third are held for four years by members of the other chapters in rotation.

The government of the fraternity was for many years in an unsettled condition, various expedients having been adopted and thrown aside, after trying in vain to unite the feature of entire independence in the chapters with strength and aggressiveness in the policy of the order as a whole. The problem was solved to the satisfaction of the Fraternity in 1879, by the formation of a corporation by a special act of the New York Legislature, called. This consists of four general officers of the fraternity ex-officio, of nine members at large, the terms of three of whom expire each year, and of one representative for each inactive chapter (all elected by the annual convention), and of two representatives elected by each active chapter; it is intended that those elected by the active chapters shall reside in or near New York City. This Council transacts business through an executive com-