The Graduate Club, founded in May, 1889, is now one of the best known and most influential clubs in the University. Its objects are mainly social-to bring students of the Graduate School together in a social way, and to promote as far as possible pleasant social relations between such students and members of the faculty.

The club is governed by an executive committee of thirteen members, representing the various departments of the University. Only members of the Graduate School are eligible to regular membership.

The work of the club begins with the college year, for on Registration Day and the preceding day, a committee of the club is on duty at some convenient place to receive new graduate students and to give them any assistance needed in finding rooms, choosing studies, and the like. As soon as possible after the beginning of the college year, the club gives a reception to the officers and members of the Graduate School, to the end of enabling men to form acquaintances which may be both pleasant and useful during the year. Its regular meetings are held at intervals of two or three weeks, numbering perhaps ten or twelve yearly. Ordinarily, the club is addressed by some well known speaker. After this address, the speaker answers questions from the audience, and this informal discussion of the topic considered is hardly less interesting than the address itself. Then the formal meeting adjourns and light refreshments are served, while the members meet socially.

Among the speakers last year were Mr. John Fiske, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson and President Eliot. So far this year the club has been addressed by Professor Charles Eliot Norton and Professor Ira N. Hollis, and other speakers of wide reputation have been secured for future addresses. Members of the faculty are invited to all meetings, and it is hoped through them to develope a feeling of organic unity among the students and officers of the Graduate School. The relations of the club to similar organizations in other universities promise much for the future. In the past, correspondence has been carried on with such clubs at Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Yale; while, in the present year, a club has been organized at Columbia, and others are planned at two more universities.