ssociation by assenting to
this constitution and paying the required membership fee.

ARTICLE III.--OBJECTS

The object of this association shall be the promotion of better
educational facilities in all ways and the encouragement of social
and intellectual culture among its members.

ARTICLE IV.--MEETINGS

At least five meetings of the association shall be held each year,
during the months of October, November, January, February, and
March, the dates and places of meetings to be determined and
announced by the executive committee. Special meetings may be
called at the election of the executive committee.

ARTICLE V.--OFFICERS

SECTION 1. The officers of the association shall be a president, a
vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, and an executive
committee composed of five members to be appointed by the
president.

SEC. 2. The election of officers shall occur at the regular meeting
of the association in the month of October.

SEC. 3. The duties of each officer shall be such as parliamentary
usage assigns, respectively, according to Cushing's Manual.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the executive committee to arrange
a schedule of meetings and to provide suitable lecturers and
instructors for the same on or before the first day of September of
each year. It shall be the further duty of this committee to devise
means to defray the expenses incurred for lecturers and
instructors. All meetings shall be public, and no charge for
admission shall be made, except by order of the executive
committee.

ARTICLE VI.--COURSE OF READING

SECTION 1. The executive committee may also recommend a course of
reading to be pursued by members, and it shall be their duty to
make such other recommendations from time to time as shall have for
their object the more effective carrying out of the purposes of the
association.

Whether the Oceana County plan of a set annual meeting or the Kent
County plan of numerous itinerant meetings is the better one depends
much on the situation. It is not improbable that itinerant meetings,
with an annual "round-up" meeting of the popular type as the great event
of the school year, would be very satisfactory.

Other counties in the state have taken up the Hesperia idea. In some
cases associations similar to the Ke