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TRAXSACTIOXS OF THE AMRI^lICAX SOCIETY 



Funds for the scholarship at the American 

 Academy in Rome. He stated that the tem- 

 porary fund for five years was now available; 

 and that, although the entire fund had not 

 been subscribed in full, the American Academy 

 in Rome had olTcrcd to underwrite $200 and 

 one of the members of the society had under- 

 written another $100 in order to bring the total 

 up to the required $1,300 and be able to pro- 

 ceed with the establishment of the scholarship 

 with the authorities of the Academy. 



Voted: That Mr. Vitale be extended the 

 thanks of the society. 



The report of the Examining Board was read 

 by the acting secretary as well as a special re- 

 port by them recommending the election of 

 Mr. Charles Mulford Robinson to Associate 

 Membership. 



Professor James S. Praj-, chairman, reported 

 for the Committee on Education stating that 

 the most important subject to which his com- 

 mittee has been devoting its time and thought 

 was the determination of the conditions of 

 the Competition for the Fellowship in Land- 

 scape Architecture now established by the so- 

 ciety at the American Academy in Rome. On 

 April 28, 1914, at the recommendation of a 

 special committee appointed to raise funds for 

 the establishment of this Fellowship, and with 

 the approval of the Executive Committee, the 

 following motions were put to vote of the 

 Fellow membership and subsequently carried: 



1. That the treasurer be instructed to es- 

 tablish two funds to be known respectively as 

 the General Fund and the Endowment Fund 

 of the Prize of Rome in Landscape Architec- 

 ture, to receive contributions to the said funds 

 from any source, and to make payment tliere- 

 from to the trustees of the American Academy 

 in Rome upon the following considerations, 

 viz: 



(a) General Fund shall be applicable first 

 to the payment of the annual stipend of a 

 fellowship or scholarship in landscape archi- 

 tecture at the American Academy in Rome 

 whenever such a fellowship or scholarship 

 shall have been established by the said trustees 

 under conditions satisfactory to the Commit- 

 tee on Education of the American Society of 

 Landscape Architects, and so long as it is so 

 maintained; second to the payment of any ex- 

 penses properly incidental to the effective es- 

 tablishment and administration of such a fel- 

 lowship or scholarship; third to the increase 

 of the Endowment Fund; 



(b) The Endowment Fund shall be ap- 

 plicable only for investment as a permanent 



endowment, the income from which shall be 

 applicable to the same purpose as the General 

 Fund. 



;.'. That the Committee on Education be in- 

 structed, in consultation with the officers of the 

 .American Academy in Rome, to draw up and 

 to pulilish a statement of the conditions under 

 which it is proposed that the Prize of Rome 

 in Landscape Architecture shall be awarded 

 and administered, and to draw up an agree- 

 ment to be submitted for approval to the so- 

 ciety and to the trustees of the American 

 Academy in Rome governing the award and 

 administration thereof. 



3. That the American Society of Land- 

 scape Architects urges upon all its members 

 and upon all others who may be interested in 

 the progress and welfare of the art of land- 

 scape architecture in this country, to con- 

 tribute liberally to a Fellowship in Landscape 

 Architecture at the American .Academy in 

 Rome. 



4. That the present special committee to 

 look into the methods of raising funds to- 

 gether with the secretary and treasurer be con- 

 stituted a Standing Committee on Prize of 

 Rome Funds and be authorized to solicit con- 

 tributions to those funds on behalf of the 

 society. 



The report states that the normal term of 

 residence as Fellow in Landscape Architec- 

 ture at the Academy will be three years and 

 the stipend $1,000 a year, a new Fellow thus 

 being sent to Rome normally every three 

 years. 



The jury on the competition in Landscape 

 .Architecture is to consist of three Fellows of 

 the American Society of Landscape Architec- 

 ture (one of whom is understood to be the 

 chairman of its Committee on Education) 

 nominated by the Committee of the School of 

 Fine Arts at the Academy from a selected list 

 furnished by the society; and three other 

 members chosen to represent the other arts of 

 architecture, sculpture and painting. Similar- 

 ly on the juries for each of the arts of archi- 

 tecture, sculpture and painting, there is to be 

 one of landscape architecture. 



Thus, landscape architecture is placed on 

 precisely the same footing as the other older 

 arts represented by Fellowship in the 

 Academy. 



Interesting chapter reports for the year were 

 given by Mr. James L. Greenleaf, president 

 of the New York chapter, and by Mr. Galla- 

 gher, in the absence of Professor Pray, for the 

 Boston chapter. After the report of the tel- 



