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IF IT HAD not been for Professor Walter J. Seeley, Vice-President of District 4, we should have missed this one. At the last meeting of the Board of Directors on February 2, he called our attention to the fact that the first Student Branch Conference of the Institute was held 25 years ago this spring under the joint auspices of the Philadelphia Section and the Student Branch at the University of Pennsylvania. He reminded us of the results of that first conference and urged some appropriate observance of its 25th anniversary. As usually happens to the maker of a good suggestion, he was given the job of writing the story. It is a story by an eyewitness. He was Chairman of the Student Branch Committee of the Philadelphia Section at the time. Our thanks to him for the reminder and for preparing the article. (See page 389.)