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 money before they received a notice, but for the most part it required one or two reminders before the response came. A few—not many—of these men have been receiving two or three notices a year for the past fifteen years without my getting a single response. I am an optimist so I keep hoping. By the spring of 1904 we had accumulated one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, but long before this some of the other brothers had had their eyes on two good looking lots near the campus which we were sure would be just the place to build our house. In order that we might be able to hold property legally we realized the necessity of forming a corporation, and this we did in the spring of 1904. This corporation consists of nineteen members, eleven members of the active chapter elected by the chapter each spring, and eight life members elected from the alumni. The real business of the corporation is done by a Board of Directors, seven in number, four from the active chapter and three from the resident alumni. When all this preliminary organization had been accomplished Wes King went over and hypnotized the old German—or was it his wife—who owned the John Street lots and stole them from him; that is, he got a contract from him to sell them to us for three thousand dollars, we to pay down five hundred dollars and to have the