Sections and university branches

In accordance with Article IX, Sections 65–74 of the new Constitution, the local organizations heretofore known as Branches, may, by petitioning, be admitted as Sections of the Institute. By way of simplifying matters, the terms University Branches and Student Meetings will be merged; both of these Sub-sections will hereafter be known as University Branches. In brief, there will be but two kinds of local organizations — Sections and university branches. A Section may be restricted to a town, or its activities may extend over all the adjacent territory for which the town is a natural electrical center. These details will be modified here and there by local conditions, the final decision resting with the Sections´ Committee and the Board of Directors. The jurisdiction of a University Branch is, in general, confined immediately to the university or college whose name it bears. In order that these jurisdictions may be clearly understood, it is the intention of the Sections´ Committee to publish in a future issue of the Proceedings an outline map of North America shewing the geographical jurisdiction of every Section and University Branch. With the closing of the universities and colleges for the academic year 1906–1907, and the beginning of the heated term, the Sections and university branches will, as usual, suspend active operations until the autumn of 1907. Section and University Branch activity will be renewed immediately after the first reguular meeting of the Institute in New York on the second Friday of October, and the reports of meetings will again be bulletined in the Proceedings.