644 RECORDS. 



The following program was offered : 



E. H. Babbitt, College Words and Phrases. 



Louis H. Gray, Contributions to Avestan Syntax, the 

 Conditional Sentence. 



A. V. Williams Jackson, Notes on the Drama of An- 

 cient India. 



Summary of Papers. 



Mr. Babbitt first drew attention to the plan which had 

 been carried into effect by the American Dialect Society to col- 

 lect data with reference to collegiate vocabulary and students' 

 slang. He explained that more than one hundred replies 

 had been received from various colleges and these replies, 

 written on blanks prepared for the purpose, gave a good idea of 

 the words and phrases employed by students in different parts 

 of America in their academic relations, their sports and associa- 

 tions and in their daily college life. Mr. Babbitt gave results 

 from 700 or more titles and he drew attention to the Dialectic 

 Society's forthcoming publication which would make current the 

 material gathered. 



In the discussion which followed, Professor Kemp and Pro- 

 fessor Sihler — the latter an invited guest — commented on the 

 lists by making some additions and by comparing with German 

 university student phrases. 



Mr. Gray, Fellow in Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, in the second communication of the evening, presented 

 some new and important syntactical results from the Avesta. 

 From an extensive study of the conditional sentence of the 

 Avesta, Mr. Gray was able for the first time clearly to prove the 

 exact points of resemblance between the Protasis and Apodosis 

 in Avestan as compared with the Sanskrit and the Greek. He 

 pointed out in detail in what respect the Avestan conditional 

 sentence was older than the Greek. 



Professor Jackson presented some of the results of his 

 studies in the Sanskrit Drama with reference to the observance 

 or non-observance of the unit}- of time. He confined his dis- 

 cussion to the three extant plays of Kalidasa. He first showed 



