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GRADUATE CLUBS

Several general meetings of the students and officials of the Graduate
Department are held during the session for professional and social purposes.
Addresses are delivered by members of the Faculty or by visiting scholars.
Besides these general conferences there are regular weekly or bi-weekly meetings
of graduate students and professors for discussion of topics connected with

graduate study. Papers are presented on the progress of certain investigations
by the writers, some of which are published as monographs, or contributed to
technical journals. These clubs are stimulating centers of research activity.
The scientific society of Sigma Xi is an important organization for the advancement
of technical knowledge. The University Committee on Research,
while not specifically an organization of the Department of Graduate Studies,
is a valuable auxiliary of the Department. This committee administers an
annual appropriation for promoting research in the various Departments of
the University, especially in the matter of the publication of the results of
original investigation, and so aids the general cause of advanced scholarship.
An annual volume, "Publications and Research," containing summaries of contributions
by professors and students of the Graduate Department, is issued
by the University.