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proved by tlie council, will be voted upon 

 at annual meetings, a two-thirds vote being 

 required to elect. For the guidance of the 

 council in acting upon nominations, it was 

 voted, upon motion of Professor Janeway, 

 that "it is the sense of this meeting that 

 the association shall be composed of college 

 and university teachers of recognized 

 scholarship or scientific productivity." 

 It was voted that all persons to whom 

 invitations to attend the first meeting had 

 been sent by the committee on organiza- 

 tion may become members of the associa- 

 tion by signifying to the secretary their 

 desire to do so, within three months from 

 January 1, provided that they hold posi- 

 tions in institutions of collegiate or uni- 

 versity grade and that their duties are not 

 solely administrative. 



3. Officers. — ^It was voted that the officers 

 of the association shall be a president, a 

 vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, and 

 a council consisting of the foregoing and 

 30 additional members. The president and 

 vice-president are to be elected by a major- 

 ity vote for a term of one year; the secre- 

 tary and treasurer are to hold office for 

 three years. Thirty members of the council 

 are to be elected for the first year, lots 

 being drawn to determine which shall hold 

 office for one, for two and for three years, 

 respectively; at each subsequent annual 

 meeting ten members of the council are to 

 be elected by a plurality vote to hold office 

 for three years. The council has power to 

 arrange the program for the annual meet- 

 ing and to appoint committees to investi- 

 gate and report upon subjects germane to 

 the purposes of the association. During 

 the year 1915 the council is authorized to 

 spend such sums out of the funds of the 

 association as may be necessary for the 

 business of the year, and also to defray 

 expenses incurred in the organization of 

 the association. 



4. Local Societies. — The question of the 

 formation of local societies was discussed 

 at some length. Although the sentiment 

 of the meeting was apparently unfavorable 

 to this plan, the council was authorized to 

 take the matter under consideration and to 

 report at the next meeting upon the desir- 

 ability of the formation of institutional or 

 territorial chapters. 



5. Dues. — The annual dues were fixed 

 at $2.00. 



The greater part of the concluding ses- 

 sion was given up to the discussion of 

 topics to be placed upon the program of 

 the association for the ensuing year. The 

 secretary of the committee on organization 

 read a number of interestingly diverse 

 topics suggested in writing by members not 

 present. A paper by Professor Royce of 

 Harvard University on "The Case of 

 Middlebury College and the Carnegie 

 Foundation" was read, proposing as a 

 suitable subject the question of "the limits 

 of standardization" in educational methods 

 and organization, and the "standardizing" 

 activities of extra-academic corporations. 

 This subject, and the two following, were 

 finally recommended to the council as the 

 topics most suitable for examination by 

 special committees and report during the 

 coming year: methods of appointment and 

 promotion; the manner in which the uni- 

 versity teaching profession is at present re- 

 cruited, with especial reference to the exist- 

 ing system of graduate fellowships and 

 scholarships. Upon Professor Seligman's 

 motion the council was also instructed to 

 attempt to bring about a merging in a new 

 committee of the committees already created 

 by the economic, political science and so- 

 ciological associations to deal with the sub- 

 ject of academic freedom, the joint com- 

 mittee to be authorized to investigate the 

 subject in behalf of this association and to 

 report at the next annual meeting. 



