The sixteenth annual meeting of the Secretaries Association was scheduled somewhat earlier in the winter than has been the custom, in order that the secretaries might have the pleasure of seeing President Hopkins and of hearing his message from the College before he left for his trip among the alumni associations of the West.
The exigencies of weather and railway transportation could not be so definitely foreseen and, although the delegations from New York and the Connecticut valley arrived on time, the Boston group and those from southern and eastern New Hampshire were hours behind schedule. Finally, however, with the cooperation of the livery stable and a four-horse pung, all the delegates gathered in the offices of the Administration Building for an informal reunion before starting the actual business of the sessions. Many of the secretaries who have always been present at these times were still in evidence, but there seemed to be a greater infusion of new blood on this occasion than at any recent meeting.