Federation of Graduate Clubs.

The Federation of Graduate Clubs is at present in a flourishing condition. The clubs enrolled are increasing in number and there are now twenty-six institutions represented including all the leading colleges both for men and women. The official publication of the federation is a handbook of graduate courses prepared by a board of graduate students, one from each institution. The editor-in-chief of the publication is C. A. Duniway, of the Harvard Graduate School.

The officers are at present: President, J. D. Forrest, Chicago; first vice-president, J. H. Boynton, Harvard; second vice-president, Miss Kingsbury, Barnard; third vice-president, Mr. Clutz, of Johns Hopkins; recording secretary, H. E. Bolton, Wisconsin; corresponding secretary, Miss Bortol, Michigan.

The federation has lately been making a crusade against honorary degrees and the number given has largely decreased in consequence. In view of the fact that Harvard confers the degrees of A. M., and Ph. D., as honorary degrees, it is interesting to note that at the annual convention of the Graduate Clubs, very few of the institutions represented reported in favor of the practice. At the same convention resolutions were adopted in regard to the granting of degrees. It was thought inexpedient to grant the same degree as an honorary degree as is granted in a regular course of study on examination; also that the degrees of Ph. D., Sc. D., M. D., and Ph. D., should never be given honoris causa nor in absentia; and that H. D., S. T. D., D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., and Mus. D., be recognized as honorary degrees.