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The committee appointed to present nom- 

 nations for officers for the year 1915 re- 

 ported, through its chairman, Professor 

 Tatlock, of Michigan, that in the time at 

 its disposal it had not been able to make 

 sufficiently well-considered nominations for 

 more than twenty-eight places on the coun- 

 cil. Professor H. C. "Warren, of Princeton 

 University, who was nominated for the 

 secretaryship, declined the nomination. 

 The following were elected: President: 

 John Dewey, Columbia University, educa- 

 tion; Vice-president: J. M. Coulter, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, botany; Treasurer: J. 

 C. Kolfe, University of Pennsylvania, 

 Latin. Members of the council : M. Bloom- 

 field, Hopkins, Sanskrit; E. Capps, Prince- 

 ton, Greek; A. P. Carman, Illinois, phys- 

 ics; A. S. Cross, Tale, English; G-. Dock, 

 Washington University, St. Louis, medi- 

 cine; H. D. Poster, Dartmouth, history; 

 B. C. Franklin, Stanford, chemistry; C. 

 M. Gayley, California, English; E. G. 

 Harrison, Yale, zoology; "W. H. Hobbs, 

 Michigan, geology; A. R. Hohlfeld, Wis- 

 consin, German; G. E. Howard, Nebraska, 

 history; A. 0. Lovejoy, Hopkins, philos- 

 ophy; W. T. Magruder, Ohio, engineering; 

 J. L. Meriam, Missouri, education; A. A. 

 Michelson, Chicago, physics ; W. B. Munro, 

 Harvard, political science; A. A. Noyes, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 chemistry; E. C. Pickering, Harvard, 

 astronomy; H. C. Warren, Princeton, 

 psychology; R. Weeks, Columbia, Romance 

 philology; H. S. White, Vassar, mathe- 

 matics; J. H. Wigmore, Northwestern, 

 law; W. P. Willeox, Cornell, economics. 

 The officers elected were given power to 

 fill the vacancies remaining in the council, 

 and to elect a secretary to serve during the 

 year; it was voted that, pending the elec- 

 tion of a secretary. Professor Lovejoy, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, be asked to 



continue to discharge the duties of that 

 office. 



Votes of thanks were extended to the 

 Chemists' Club for their courtesies; to the 

 Women's University Club for hospitalities 

 to woman members of the profession in at- 

 tendance at the meeting ; and to the officers 

 and members of the committee on organi- 

 zation. The meeting, notable in the his- 

 tory of the American universities and dis- 

 tinguished by the number of eminent 

 scholars attending and by the interest and 

 quality of its discussions, then adjourned. 



It is perhaps advisable to put on record 

 at this time the history of the steps, ante- 

 cedent to this meeting, taken in the organi- 

 zation of the new association. The project 

 was initiated by a communication signed 

 by most of the full professors of the fac- 

 ulty of the Johns Hopkins University,, 

 which was sent, in the spring of 1913, to» 

 the members of the faculties of nine other 

 universities, inviting the latter to consider 

 the advisability of the formation of such a 

 society, and to send delegates to an in- 

 formal conference for discussion of the 

 matter. A favorable response was received 

 in all cases, and statements expressing a 

 conviction of the desirability of the crea- 

 tion of some such professional association 

 were drawn up and signed by members of 

 the faculties of nearly all the universities 

 addressed. The proposed conference was 

 held at Baltimore on November 17, 1913; 

 it was attended by 18 delegates from 

 the following universities: Clark, Colum- 

 bia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, 

 Princeton, Wisconsin and Yale. The chair- 

 man of this conference. Professor Bloom- 

 field, was authorized to appoint a com- 

 mittee on organization, representing the 

 principal subjects of study and the prin- 

 cipal universities. This committee, under 

 the chairmanship of Professor Dewey, 

 after prolonged discussion, decided that 



