At the business meeting immediately preceding the banquet the following recommendation of the special committee appointed for the purpose of formulating a plan for the participation of the alumni in the management of the University was adopted unanimously. The plan provides that the Board of Regents of the University shall be enlarged by the addition of five members, one each from the five departments, who shall have had their degrees for 10 years or more. It provides for the election of a committee on nominations, to consist of the president of the association and one representative from each of the five departments. This committee shall select three representatives from each of the five departments as nominees for the alumni in good standing in the association to vote upon. Votes may be cast in person or by mail. After the election of the five members of the council they shall determine by lot who are to serve for one, two, three, four or five years, respectively. Any vacancy is to be filled by the remaining members of the Alumni Council from the department from which the member was originally chosen. The secretary of the General Alumni Association shall act as the secretary of the alumni regents, who shall select their own chairman for one-year terms. The committee consisted of the following well-known alumni of the five departments of the University: Medical—Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson and Dr. E. F. Cordell. Pharmacy—Dr. John F. Hancock and Dr. J. Emory Bond. Dental—Dr. L. H. Farinholt and Dr. Joseph C. Heuisler. Law—Messrs. B. Howard Haman and Jas. W. Bowers, Jr. Academic (St. John's College)—Dr. J. Frederick Adams and Dr. A. L. Wilkinson. No further action, however, can be taken in the matter until approved or vetoed by the Board of Regents. The president, John B. Thomas, Phar. D., introduced the toastmaster, Henry P. Hynson, Phar. D., who was in a particularly bright and witty mood. The speakers were: Hon. J. Barry Mahool, the Mayor of Baltimore; John C. Hemmeter, M. D.; Addison Mullikin, Esq., LL. B.; Charles Caspari, Phar. D.; Joshua W. Hering, M. D., Comptroller of the State of Maryland and a graduate of the class of 1855, of Westminster, Md. Those who were not present do not know what they missed. It was a live banquet, something doing every minute, and the committee in charge of the arrangements are to be congratulated upon the thoroughness with which they accomplished their task. Committee—T. O. Heatwole, chairman; Oregon Milton Dennis, LL. B.; Eugene Hodson, Phar. G.; Arthur M. Shipley, M. D.