Forty-seven files this term, which is the first ordinary number in four years. The Correlation draws no conclusion from that and asks the chapters not to draw one either.

Fourteen are set out below. The rest are unremarkable, and unremarkable is most of the work.

2;XIX · Kentucky Wesleyan

A member's family papers, four generations of it, containing one letter from a relative the family had always said did not exist. He exists. He is in the 1880 census two towns over and he died of ordinary things. NO RELATION — genealogical. They are good papers and the chapter has been told to keep them.

6;III · Yale

Catalogued since 1954, as Dutch, decorative, c. 1890, in a catalogue the owner could have opened. NO RELATION.

8;XLI · New Mexico

Closed on the meteorological record. The photographs are in the file because they are good photographs.

0;XXII · Indiana State

The professor had a death in the family. The question was about the reading. NO RELATION.

1;XL · Minnesota

Sounds in the ceiling of the meeting room over four consecutive Tuesdays, described in the chapter's report as rhythmic and deliberate, and in the facilities work order as raccoons. NO RELATION — raccoons. Two.

12;XLIV · Clarkson

The chapter wrote to ask whether its file number was already in use. NO CORRELATION.

9;XIV · Nevada-Reno

Lights over the playa, six members, and the county's own notice of a scheduled aerial survey, which the chapter found afterward and forwarded with the report. NO RELATION — aviation.

3;XXVI · San Jose State

Three members submitted dream logs the chapter believed to be concordant. Two of the three had discussed their dreams before writing them down, which the chapter did not know and the members did not mention. The third log does not resemble the others. Concordance fails. The chapter has been sent the current forms.

0;LVIII · Long Beach State

Three members, one night, one parking structure. The three accounts cannot all be true, and cannot be reconciled by allowing any two of them to be wrong. All three are in the file unaltered. NO RELATION — three witnesses, mutually incompatible.

5;XV · New York University

A first-year in the Tisch program submitted eleven drawings made over nine days, none of which she remembers making, all of which are recognizably hers. Her roommate confirms she was in the room. Her sleep clinic confirms the parasomnia, which she has had since she was fourteen, which is documented, and which explains this. NO RELATION — medical. She has stopped drawing. Not stopped drawing at night. Stopped drawing.

4;XXXIII · Texas A&M

Discoloration in a greenhouse plot at College Station — a grey the reporting member said photographs blue, which the chapter's images confirm, for reasons a photographer has since explained to us at length and without much patience. The department identified a fungal cause in nine days. The identification is sound, the treatment worked, and the plot has been reused twice. She helped write part of the report, will not go back into that greenhouse, and says that nothing is wrong and that she would rather not, and that both are true. NO RELATION — biological.

9;XIV · Bradley University

The Peoria chapter's October event involved a manifestation the chapter built itself, staged by a first-year with a theater background and, by every account, staged beautifully. He designed the sigil for it out of nothing — his word — over about forty minutes.

It is in the 1931 Notebook.

The Archive's first assumption was that he had seen a reproduction. There are no reproductions. The Custodian has re-checked the provenance twice, which the Custodian does not do. NO RELATION — probable student fraud. He continues to find the entire business extremely funny.

11;VII · SUNY Potsdam

A second-year at the Crane School submitted eleven bars she had written down on waking, three mornings running, and wanted them cleared for her jury. The secretary forwarded the request as a courtesy, expecting nothing. She described the central interval as wrong in a way that is not out of tune, which is not a thing musicians say.

She practiced it in a rehearsal room on a Tuesday evening. At some point in the twenty minutes she spent on it, the other seven occupied rooms on the floor stopped. Not at once — the way a room goes quiet when someone comes in. Four of the seven, asked afterward, could not say why they had stopped. Two did not remember stopping. One had left the building.

Chapters at two other institutions submitted comparable transcriptions inside a fortnight, neither having seen hers. The intervals agree. Concordant. File open.

She withdrew the piece from her jury and plays other things now. She is well, and pleasant about it, and has asked twice whether the recording still exists.

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12;IX · Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

The Terre Haute chapter had reported nothing for eleven consecutive terms. Attendance steady, minutes immaculate, dues collected early. Engineers file the best negative results in this organization and that chapter files the best of those.

In the twelfth term, at the meeting of Wednesday, November 1, a member reproduced a construction from a plate in a seventeenth-century commentary on the north wall of Room 108, in chalk, with string and a carpenter's square, at something near four times the size of the original. He had brought the string. His stated purpose, in his own note appended to the report, was to demonstrate that the plate's illustrator had misunderstood perspective and had been copied uncorrected by everyone since. He adds, in the same note: I was wrong about that and would like it in the file that I was wrong about it.

He does not say what he was wrong about, and the note is otherwise four paragraphs on the history of the plate, competently done and footnoted.

The chapter's report, filed November 14, runs to two pages. The relevant portion is four lines.

He finished at about 7:40. The next four minutes were not eventful. We adjourned at 7:52 rather than 8:30 by general agreement and I have recorded the early adjournment because the minutes require a reason and I have not been able to give one.

The Archive wrote twice asking the secretary to expand on not eventful. She declined twice, politely, and has continued to file on time.

Three of the six measured the room afterward, at different hours that night, with two tape measures between them. Their figures, north wall to corridor wall, in the order taken:

24 ft 8 in. · 24 ft 9½ in. · 24 ft 11 in.

The floor plan on file with the registrar gives 24 feet 8 inches. Two of the three measured a second time before leaving and both got their own figure again.

The third of them, a sophomore who took the largest reading, appended one line to the chapter's report and nothing else:

I would like to say that I measured from the same two places both times, because I did.

NO RELATION — measurement under stress.

The wall was replaced. The work order came to us with the rest of the chapter's material, and is reproduced here in full, as it was written:

WO 4471 — HEMINWAY 108 — REPLACE SECTION DRYWALL NORTH WALL — MATERIALS ON HAND — COMPLETED 11 OCT 2023

Heminway 108 is on the ground floor and has been a classroom since the building opened. It has been repainted four times. Nothing in the university's maintenance history for the room is unusual, and the Archive has the maintenance history, because the chapter asked for it and was given it in an afternoon.

The original floor plans remain in storage. They were requested on November 20, on December 6, and on January 3.

The member who made the construction transferred at the end of the term. He wrote to the secretary in January, at length, about his coursework and his advisor and the cost of housing, and mentioned in the last line that his new institution has no chapter.

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The arithmetic

Forty-seven files were opened this term. Fourteen are set out above. Four are open.