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CHAPTER 34 DUTIES OF OFFICES OF PRAESIDIA 217
President when absent, in order that, when the latter returns,
he may not find that everything has been languishing for
want of him.”

3. He shall generally assist the President in the
management of the praesidium and the carrying through of
business. Too often it is supposed that his duty only begins
when the President is absent. This is an error which will prove
disastrous both to the Vice-President and to the praesidium.
The correct view is that the Vice-President should co-operate
intimately with the presidential action. The pair should be in
relation to the praesidium much as the father and mother are
to the home, or as the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief-of-
Staff are to an army. The Vice-President supplements the
President. He is meant to be an active officer, not a reserve
officer or a passive one. During meetings, his special function
is to supervise the innumerable things which are outside the
attention of the President, but on which may depend the
proper working of the praesidium.

4. In particular the Vice-President is charged with the duty
of looking after membership. He should make the
acquaintance of newcomers on the occasion of their first
attendance, and welcome them to the praesidium; introduce
them to the other members before or after the meeting; see
that they are assigned to work, instructed in the obligations of
membership (including that of daily recitation of the Catena),
and made aware of the existence and details of the praetorian
degree of membership.
5. During the meeting he shall mark up the attendance roll.

6. He shall keep the various registers relating to active, prae -
torian, adjutorian, and auxiliary membership, in each case
sub divid ing as between full members and probationers. He
shall see that auxiliary members are visited at the end of their
probation period and, if found faithful to their obligations,
transferred to the permanent registers.
7. He shall notify the active probationers of the drawing to
a close of their probation, and shall make all arrangements for
the taking of the Promise.