Handbook of the Alumni Work

zation, is shaped solely to meet the purposes in the minds of its organizers. The alumni association of a college or department of a university, must take into account the fact that the other colleges or departments of the institution have, or may have, similar associations and the organization must be made to conform to such a situation, and provision will naturally be made for co-operation with the alumni organizations of other departments of the institution to care for matters not exclusively within the sphere of any one of the college associations?that is, university matters. ' The individual association should be so formed as to provide for caring for matters of interest solely to the particular college, and caution should be exercised to avoid any possible interference with matters that relate to other colleges or departments or to the university as a whole. In a university there are always matters in which the alumni of all the colleges are alike interested, matters which do not affect one college or department more than another. Such matters are provided for by a distinctively university organization or by a federation of the various college associations, which amounts to a distinct and independent organization. Sometimes this may take the form of an association of alumni clubs, but commonly, in a university with many departments, there will be found room for two kinds of organization ?one to represent the individual colleges and one to represent ...