Brooks' Comet, October 23rd, 1911, 16h 32m C. S. T. 10-inch Bruce Telescope, Yerkes Observatory, Exposure 1 h 15 m -E. E. BARNARD

ANNUAL MEETING

The Annual Meeting of the Club was held on Tuesday Evening December 21, 1920, which was regarded as Ladies' Night. Dinner was served to a company numbering about 300.

PRESIDENT HEWITT, in opening the meeting after dinner, expressed his pleasure at seeing so many present, and welcomed to the Guests' Table, Miss Joan Arnoldi, the National President of The Daughters of the Empire.

The proceedings were enlivened from time to time by the singing of the Boys' Choir of St. Simon's Church under the leadership of Mr. George Crawford, some of their selections having been specially composed by Dr. Fricker. Master Raymond Sears, a pupil of Mr. Crawford, sang several solos.

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

PRESIDENT HEWITT, in his annual address, said that when he was honoured by being elected President he realized that it would be difficult, if not quite impossible, to maintain the very high standard of 1919, particularly in the matter of securing attractive speakers. The war was over, and the natural reaction from the strain of the nation seemed to threaten to lower the interest of public men in coming forward to speak to such organizations as clubs, and besides this, there was a feeling that new subjects and addresses might not attract the attention of members to the same extent as formerly. However, those fears and anticipations had not been realized, for there had been even greater interest than ever in the new activities of the Club, and he believed that this interest would increase during the coming year. As there was no finality to progress, he believed that there would be no finality on this earth to the longing for and striving after intellectual and spiritual development on the part of men who took any serious view of their individual responsibility as citizens of one of the most favoured

countries of the world, and as belonging to the greatest Empire the world has ever seen. (Applause) What a wonderful array of speakers the Club had had during the year! It would seem almost impossible that any interest could have collected for the weekly meetings of the Club such speakers as composed last year's list. He would go over the list if for no other purpose than to pay our tribute of respect and gratitude to them for having taken the trouble-and in many cases a great deal of troubleas well as expense in coming to the Club in the interest of the development of our Empire and the spirit which prompted all the activities of the Club. (The President then read the list, as given in the table of contents,) While it might perhaps not be right to single out one address, he thought that of Dr. Powell, Editor of the Financial Times of London, England, was so remarkable that he was tempted to read one or two paragraphs, as the ladies were not present at that meeting, and he thought it would be helpful to get the atmosphere of the weekly gatherings-that atmosphere which members of the Club took home with them to their wives, telling them what they had heard at the Empire Club during the day. (Laughter) As illustrating the tone and significance of the address of this business man, this financial editor, he read the following paragraphs:

"And you Canadians, looking out across your own vast Dom"inion, looking at what you have made of it within the last "fifty years, and then remembering that even your Own "magnificent Empire is but an Empire within an Empire, and "that that larger Empire of which you are a part, an indis"soluble part, as it is set upon the loftiest ideals of human "liberties and progress, can you set bound to what you can "achieve so long as that lofty vision inspires you, and so long "as in the background of your lives and in the background of "the Empire itself there is that Imperial Personality, that "Imperial soul pouring down its inspiration upon your sons "and daughters, and going on to a fate more splendid than any "which has hitherto gladdened the eyes of the sons of men?

"Finally, I do not apologize for presenting to a meeting of "business men, as a business man myself, some of the loftiest "topics that can engage the attention of mankind; because I "find that the business man and especially the Canadian business "man, is beginning to take a lively and incisive interest in these