certificates. In discussing this, the following suggestions were made: Many fraternities have what they call their business manager, that is a man who really does the work of a secretary-treasurer and editor, who is paid enough to give him a very good stenographer and to have an office where they have all the forms. It was suggested that such an office be created in our Fraternity. This man would do all the clerical work, would be the business manager, he could be paid enough to have a full-time stenographer to attend to all of these things. The other officers would be left with advisors' powers, but the real work would be done by one man'. Any editor elected would act in a purely advisory capacity. The business manager would do all the work, sending out all notices, all chapter reports, investigating chapters, etc.

The discussion, however, ran rather against this, the belief being that the Secretary-Treasurer was perfectly capable of transacting the affairs, leaving the matter as it stood, unless it was necessary to give the Secretary-Treasurer more money. It was pointed out that the publishing of THE QUARTERLY was largely mechanical, a question of getting out notices to the chapters and to the various alumni associations, and to various men working over articles, so that the man with a paid secretary would develop certain forms and have a calendar. The secretary could then find that on certain days certain notices should go out, etc. She could take care of the filing system, and get out letters at the proper time.

VIII. Life Subscriptions to The Quarterly.

From the editor's report it appeared that since the passage of the amendment in 1915, requiring each active member to take out a life subscription to THE QUARTERLY, nothing had been done to enforce it, except in Beta Chapter where they had collected fifty cents a month from the date of initiation until the last year when the man was required to make up in monthly payments his balance toward life subscription to THE QUARTERLY. This legislation is to be strictly enforced from now on.

IX. Convention Proceedings.

Some members pointed out that they had never seen copies of the proceedings of the conventions. Others pointed out with equal emphasis that such proceedings had been sent out after each convention to every chapter. Some of those who had seen the proceedings suggested that a condensed account, such as that given of the Minneapolis Convention, would be better than the entire proceedings as given in the Salt Lake City report.

X. Men in the Service.

A suggestion was made to send THE QUARTERLY to men in the service. It was pointed out that when a man became an alumnus he was usually lost in the Fraternity, that he soon forgot his relationship to it. It was felt that the bringing of good men of all fraternities into the cantonments would develop the spirit of true fraternalism, true brotherhood among medical men, and therefore

it would be an excellent opportunity of reviving the spirit of Phi Beta Pi. In many cantonments there is little reading matter, so THE QUARTERLY would create some interest. So it was suggested that we should send THE QUARTERLY and the Supreme Chapter stand the expense. Since we have not the addresses of all the men in the service and since many of them are being shifted from post to post, it was thought best to send copies to the Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus reading-rooms at all posts across the ocean and the cantonments here in this country.

A committee was appointed to formulate a resolution regarding the appreciation of the Fraternity for the spirit shown by its men in the service, but the committee considered itself incapable of formulating any resolution suitable to the occasion.

Finally, it was the unanimous sentiment of the convention, expressed many times and in many ways, that the entertainment provided by Alpha Iota and the Kansas City Alumni Association was of the very highest order and merited a vote of thanks not only from each individual person at the convention, but from each chapter.

In order to keep this portion of the report of the convention from being too voluminous, the Supreme Secretary has condensed a great deal of the discussion and has not given either the names of those taking part or their words. To do so would involve a very lengthy report, which would probably be only partially read. It is hoped that this will be widely read by all active members and that each one will take the lessons therein contained to heart that we may have a greater Fraternity.

LAWSON G. LOWREY.

LITTLE SKETCHES OF BIG PHI BETAS

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WILLIAM L. BENEDICT

ILLIAM L. BENEDICT was born in the small town of Springport, Indiana, on the twenty-third day of February, 1885. At the tender age of five, he entered the primary grades of that vicinity and passed through the routine as was accorded all beginners who were preparing for life's work. He further studied in the high school of that place and upon graduation from that place he entered Spinland Academy, from which place he graduated in 1906. In the fall of that year he entered the University of Michigan as a student in the combined medical course. After six years of hard labor, he received his medical degree.

During his college period he was unusually active and it was during this period that he made himself the most popular member of his class. From 1907 to 1908 he was president of the Indiana Club, an organization of college students from that state. During the years 1910-1912 he was interne in the Ophthalmology Department at the University Hospital. Following his graduation he was appointed as assistant in the same clinic. The following year he was placed in charge of his chief's practice in Detroit, Michigan. From this position he resigned to enter into partnership with Doctors Anderson, Pattis, and Schottstaidt at Fresno, California. The doctor remained with this clinic for a few years when he resigned to accept the position as chief of the section of ophthalmology (Division of the Eye, Mayo Clinic) and assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Minnesota.

Physically he is a man of the six-foot stature. He has a fascinating straightforward appearance and carries himself in a most attractive manner. His actions are quick, keen but certain which, in themselves, characterize the man. He is fond of outdoors and possesses a long unfilled desire to indulge in sports more than he has done of late years. Much of his spare time is devoted to motoring of which he is very fond, all of which accounts for the clean, healthy appearance which he always presents.

Personally, he is a most amiable man. As one catches a glimpse of him, he at once forms an opinion which impresses him. The man in question has a most wonderful ability in making and retaining friends. His straightforwardness, his attitude, and his poise are of such a type that one cannot help admiring these stern qualities of which the doctor is possessed. His ever smiling countenance, his ability to remember faces and names, and his trustful nature have won him friends by the score. To a stranger, he appears as a quiet, bashful, modest individual, but this barrier is broken when one has conversed for but a short time. He takes life and all of its phases seriously and from the experiences of one who knows him, he is a fighter through and through.

The family relationships of the doctor show the same general attitude as one has portrayed. In June, 1914, he married Edith H. Betz of Adrian, Michigan,