the year with greater confidence in our cause than ever before. We began operations by refurnishing our hall with handsome lace curtains and rich, heavy drapings. In November we celebrated the twentieth aniversary of the founding of the society by a banquet at the Lindell Hotel, at which over 80 members, alumni and invited guests, met to rejoice in the present prosperity of the society and in its brilliant prospects for the future. Our lecture course this year comprised two noted lecturers, Geo. Kennan on "The Siberian Exile System," and Paul Blout ("Max O'Rell") on "America as seen Through French Spectacles." These lectures have not merely benefited us personally and swelled the treasury of the society, but they have also served to bring our society and the work we are doing more prominently before and in greater sympathy with the public.

Our membership has increased to 90, and that, too, with but little exertion on our part. We desire to keep our membership down to a good working number so that every membery shall have adequate oportunity to appear before the society.

This year is the first in the history of the society in which we have had no members expelled or resigned.

The fact that several of our strongest members have decined urgent invitations to join fraternities testifies strongly to their confidence in the superior benefits to be derived from a literary society.

Great variety in programs, class programs, girls' programs, boys' programs, debatig club programs, and musicales have served to keep enthusiasm and interest at a high point. We are the only society that has had printed programs each Friday night throughout the year. Our constitution has been amended so as to be more in harmony with the Michigan plan which is to be put in full force in our institution in the coming year.

The Palladian Society is open to and extends a hearty welcome to all those students that seek enjoyment and good training in literary work. The prospects for an excellent year commencing next fall are unusually bright to those that have Palladian welfare at heart.

P.G.D.C.

Feeling the need of more work of a special kind in 1884, the Palladian girls organized a debating club. Its primary object was to train its members in the art of debating and extemporaneous speaking.

The chief purpose of the club, however, is still to excel in debating and to grow accustomed to parliamentary rules and usages. Each year the club has found more work to do. As the general society frows, the value of the P.G.D.C. is better appreciated. It is in the club that a great share of the work in training, formerly done by the society, is accom-