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Annual Dinner and Evening Session. Pres- 

 ent: Messrs. Blaney, Brinckerhoff, Caparn, 

 Fowler, Gay, Geiffert, Greenleaf, Leavitt, Low- 

 rie. Manning, Nichols, Nolen, F. L. Olmsted, 

 J. C. Olmsted, Parsons, Pilat, Pray, Roy, Vi- 

 tale. Guests: Charles Ewing, E. G. Davis. 



During the dinner greetings were read from 

 the Minnesota Chapter, and various members 

 of the society, also Thomas H. Mawson, Lan- 

 caster, England, and Mr. E. G. Culpin, secre- 

 tary of the International Garden Cities and 

 Town Planning Association. The president 

 announced that owing to the war no compe- 

 tition will be held this year for the American 

 Academy in Rome. After the reading of the 

 president's annual report, Mr. Charles Ewing, 

 of Ewing and Chapel, architects, was intro- 

 duced and described his experience in design- 

 ing and laying out the cantonment for the 

 Unites States navy at Pelham Bay, New York. 

 The camp provides for 6,000 men and no typi- 

 cal plans of buildings or layout had been pro- 

 vided by the government, so that the entire 

 scheme had to be created. Mr. Ewing showed 

 plans of the work and stated that he had en- 

 deavored to minimize the amount of road area 

 as much as possible. Mr. F. L. Olmsted de- 

 scribed his experiences in Washington in con- 

 nection with the organization work and the 

 planning of the various army cantonments 

 throughout the country. Other members who 

 were active in cantonment work and who spoke 

 of their experiences in connection with this 

 work were the following: 



Professor Pray on Camp Funston, Kansas. 



Mr. Greenleaf on Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. 



Mr. Pilat on Camp Lewis, Seattle, Washing- 

 ton. 



Mr. Lowrie on Camp Hancock, Augusta, 

 Ga., and Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. 



Mr. Manning on Camp Sherman. Chilli- 

 cothe, Ohio. 



Mr. Brinckerhoff on Camp Gordon, .Atlanta, 

 Ga. 



The president also spoke of the work which 

 Mr. Schermerhorn had done at Camp Wheeler, 

 Macon, Ga., stating that he was the first to be 

 engaged as designer on a National Guard 

 camp, and that he is now in active service as 

 a captain of the sanitary corps, and stationed 

 at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. 



February 8, 1918. Regular meeting. Harvard 

 Union, Cambridge. 



Present: Messrs. Aldrich, Blaney, Brincker- 

 hoff, Caldwell, Child, Fowler, Manning, Nolen, 



J. C. Olmsted, Pray. ShurtlefT. Guest: Mr. 

 Paul R. Smith. 



The reading of the minutes of the previous 

 meeting was waived, .^fter the appointment 

 of tellers to count and report on ballots re- 

 ceived since the last meeting, the president 

 announced that reports would be made by the 

 four standing committees, namely those on 

 City Planning, National Parks, Policies and 

 Education. Report of the Committee on Edu- 

 cation, Prof. Pray, chairman, lead to an in- 

 teresting discussion in regard to the Rome 

 Scholarship. The question having been raised 

 by Mr. Nolen, Professor Pray announced that 

 the holder of the Fellowship in Landscape 

 .Architecture must, in normal times, spend six- 

 teen months in travel outside of Italy during 

 his three year course, whereas students hold- 

 ing fellowships in other professions were re- 

 quired to so spend only eight months. Mr. 

 Nolen asked if outside travel was confined to 

 Europe, and Prof. Pray stated that it prob- 

 ably could include the L'nited States although 

 the .Academy authorities undoubtedly felt that 

 it would include only Europe. 



Mr. Olmsted suggested that the president 

 be asked to communicate with Landscape 

 Architecture with a view to publishing a sum- 

 mary of his report as chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Education. Report of the Standing 

 Committee on National Parks was read by Mr. 

 Manning, chairman. He made a feature of the 

 point brought out by Mr. F. L. Olmsted, Sr., 

 who issued a pamphlet on the Yellowstone 

 Park in 1890, that no obtrusive buildings or 

 other artificial features of a foreign nature and 

 not in keeping with the naturalistic character 

 of the parks should be allowed. The report 

 aroused some discussion and developed the 

 question as to the relation between the Na- 

 tional Park Service and the National Forest 

 Service in the control of the National Park 

 Reserves. The latter assumes the attitude 

 that it should have entire control. The report 

 also raised the problem as to the control and 

 utilization of water power on the one hand as 

 opposed to the conserving of the natural beau- 

 ty of falls and water courses on the other. 



The president read report of the Standing 

 Committee on Policies, Mr. Caparn, chairman, 

 this included the recommendation that reports 

 on the various accepted policies should receive 

 wide distribution. The Policy on National 

 Highways stirred up a discussion which 

 brought out impressively the magnitude of 

 our need for a national plan, for which, of 

 course, a comprehensive, highly organized 



