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he has done much to
advance the best interests of the profession, both within its ranks and in
its relations to the public. To nothing so much as to his faithful labors
can the success of the Architectural Club be laid. He has made it the
largest and most effective organization of its kind in the country, and
the draughtsmen of Boston have every reason to be thankful to him for
his unselfish devotion to their interests.
He has, for several years, been the permanent chairman of the
Committee of the Boston Society of Architects, appointed to administer
the Rotch Scholarship, and through his earnest work the opportunities
open to its holders are being constantly increased.
(To be continued.)
* * * * *
Club Notes.
The youngest of the architectural societies of the country is the
Cleveland Architectural Club. It was organized in November last with a
membership of fifteen, which number has been rapidly growing and
bids fair to grow much further. In this instance, as has been the case in
all the other large cities where similar clubs have been formed, it is the
better class of draughtsmen who have felt the need of an organization
that would bring them together socially, and give an opportunity for
organized study and mutual improvement; and it is a most encouraging
symptom of the generally diseased condition of the public mind in
relation to architecture that these clubs have become so numerous in the
last few years. Aside from the direct influence upon its own
membership, the manifestation of a progressive and aggressive spirit
cannot help provoking curiosity and discussion outside, if it
accomplishes nothing further. It is somewhat surprising that with the
unusually active interest which Cleveland has always evinced in
matters relating to art, such a movement has not been started before.
We shall have occasion before long to refer more in detail to this new
and flourishing society.
* * * * *
The Illinois
Chapter of
the American Institute of Architects announces the second annual

competition for a gold medal, to be open to members of the Chicago
Architectural Club who are not practicising architects of over two
years' standing. The problem is the design for a memorial building for
the study of botany, zoology, and mineralogy, and is to be finished on
April 29.
* * * * *
The Chicago Architectural Club mingles work and play in a thoroughly
Bohemian fashion. A recent invitation card bid its members to attend a
"Rip-Snorter at the Club House," stating that "provisions and provisos
would be provided and Frou Frous be on tap." The exact significance of
this cabalistic description is known only to the members and their
guests. The same card announced that the new Constitution and
By-Laws would be finally voted upon at the same meeting, and further
announced the conditions of a forthcoming sketch competition. Things
move rapidly in Chicago.
* * * * *
The Chicago Architectural Club will hold its eighth annual exhibition
of works of architecture and the allied arts at the Art Institute for two
weeks beginning May 23. For further particulars, address John Robert
Dillon, secretary, 274 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
* * * * *
The Buffalo
Chapter of
the A.I.A. will hold its second annual exhibition in the Art Gallery,
Library Building, in connection with the exhibition of the Buffalo
Society of Artists, from March 18 to 30. For further particulars, address
J.H. Marling, 15 Morgan Building, Buffalo.
[Illustration: VIII. The Palazzo Pisani, Venice.]

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