Some of these additions which I have mentioned are very important.

On motion the report was ordered incorporated with the proceedings of the conference, together with thanks to the committee for its labors.

At this point the meeting adjourned to take part with the school and seminary departments in forming the general association. On assembling after adjournment, the report of the treasurer, Father O'Hara, was read and accepted. The election of officers was the next business.

Rev. John A. Conway, S. J., was elected president and Rev. John P. Carroll, D. D., was elected vice president. Rev. L. A. Delurey, O. S. A., was elected secretary and treasurer. Father Delurey was also elected member of the executive board of the association; the president, Father Conway, being a member by virtue of his position in the college conference.

The chairman announced the need of electing a Standing Committee. The chairman said that this election had usually gone by religious orders.

Father Burns-I think all the religious orders should be represented. I do not see why five should be picked out to the exclusion of other religious orders. We have had almost the same standing committee from the beginning. I think we should be careful to avoid ex-officio positions, they lead to routine. We ought to secure some rotation in office. I move that a committee be appointed, empowered to introduce an amendment to that effect to the constitution, and to report that amendment next year for the conference's action.

Father Glass proposed that this committee be appointed by the chair.

Father Burns moved that the committee be re-elected as it stands, with Father Dowling substituted for Father Conway.

The motion was seconded, and Father Dowling was elected together with Fathers French, O'Hara, Ball, O. S. B., and Mr. Reiner.

Father Cassilly suggested that the constitutional amendment proposed by Father Burns be referred to the standing committee.

The vote on referring the matter to the standing committee was put, and carried.

Father Murphy presented the report of the committee on resolutions. The report was accepted and adopted.

The Sixth Annual Conference of the Association of Catholic Colleges then adjourned at 1:25 p. m.

F. B. CASSILLY, S. J., SECRETARY.

Report of Committee on Entrance Conditions. I.-In Latin; the Committee recommends entrance requirements: (a) Prose Composition-Ability to translate simple English sentences into Latin; (b)-Authors-Nepos, Selections; Caesar, four books; Ovid, Metamorphoses; Virgil, Eclogues; and Cicero's letters or equivalent; Virgil, Aeneid, four books; Sallust, Cataline's Conspiracy or the Jugurthine War; Cicero, two orations against Cataline; (c) - Grammatical Construction, based upon the authors read. II. In Greek: (a)-Prose Composition-Ability to translate simple English sentences into Greek; (b)-AuthorsAnabasis, at least two books; Lucian, six dialogues or equivalent; Iliad, two books; Odyssey, two books, or equivalent; (c)-Grammatical Construction, based upon the authors read.

III. In Mathematics: Algebra-Through Quadratic Equations; Geometry-Plane and Solid.

IV. In English: The Uniform College Entrance Requirements, or their equivalent.

V.-In History: History of America. Modern and Mediaeval History. Ancient or Greek and Roman History. History of England.

VI. In Science: Any three of the following: Physiology, Physical Georgaphy, Botany, Zoology, Elementary Chemistry, Elementary Physics, Elementary Astronomy. VII.- Modern Lauguages: French, German or Spanish. A fair reading knowledge of one of these three languages, with ability to account for its ordinary grammatical constructions, and to translate into it simple English prose.

Report of Committee on Resolutions.

The following resolutions are respectfully submitted by your committee:

1. To His Grace, the Most Reverend Archbishop of St. Louis, the delegates owe a debt of gratitude not only for the encouragement afforded by his presence at our sessions but even more for his condescension in actually participating in our deliberations and aiding us by his suggestions.

2. The delegates of the College Conference wish to record their appreciation of the cordial welcome extended to them by the Reverend President and Faculty of St. Louis University, for the ample and convenient accommodations provided for the work of the conference, and for a hospitality so generous that it far exceeded the needs of the delegates and all their previous experiences. Thanks are also extended to the local clergy of St. Louis.

3. We feel that the thanks of the delegates should also be extended to the acting chairman and secretaries who have so generously devoted their time and energies to supplying for the absence of the regular officers of the conference. The labors of the Committees on College Entrance Requirements and on Federation of the three conferences are gratefully appreciated and our thanks to the members of these committees are here recorded.

4. Your committee would recommend that the printed report of the proceedings of this conference be circulated more widely than heretofore. We suggest that two copies be sent to each delegate, one to every bishop in the United States, one to each of the representative Educational Associations of the country, and that other copies may be available for purchase by those who may desire them.

5. This committee would respectfully suggest to the conference the desirability of a more systematic organization and a more definite arrangement of details before the next annual meeting.

We likewise recommend that any action taken by the standing committee, in the interval between annual meetings, be made

known to the delegates when the call for the annual meeting is issued.

We recommend also, in this connection, the appointment of a Press Committee whose duty it should be to see that authentic reports of our proceedings and digests of papers and speeches be furnished to the press.

6. We recommend that the next annual meeting be held in New York City in the second week of July, 1905.

THOS. E. MURPHY, S. J.,
M. A. HEHIR, C. S. Sp.,
JAMES J. FRENCH, C. S. C.
J. S. GLASS, C. M., DD.,
JOHN NOLAN,

Committee.

Report of Treasurer from October 22, 1903, to June 25, 1904.

Papers Read at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities of the United States.

Statistics of Attendance of Catholic College
Students at Mon-Catholic Colleges
and Universities, and the
Cause Thereof.

DISCUSSION.

The chairman announced that Dr. Charles P. Neill had sent word that the two weeks which he recently spent in St. Louis had fatigued him greatly, leaving him so broken in health and spirit that he was unable to prepare his paper on "Statistics of Attendance of Catholic College Students at non-Catholic Colleges and Universities and the Cause Thereof." The chairman suggested that the subject be discussed nevertheless. Dr. Neill's opinion, he said, was that in the last decade Catholic colleges are steadily losing ground, and Dr. Neill had intended. to discuss (1) the reason for this; and (2) the remedies which could be applied.

Rt. Rev. Mgr. D. J. O'Connell further gave the views of Dr. Neill, which he said he expressed without any endorsement of his own. Dr. Neill, he said, was associated with Hon. Carroll D. Wright in making his investigations, and he had given particular attention to the statistics of Catholic and non-Catholic colleges. Non-Catholic colleges, according to the statistics from 1890 to 1900, had increased 60 per cent. in attendance. Catholic colleges had not done this. The 60 per cent. was out of all proportion to the increase of population, and this abnormal increase at non-Catholic institutions represented a decrease at Catholic institutions.