Proceedings. 
1409 
Afternoon Session, 2:00 o'clock. 
Presentation of Papers. 
16. Socrates and tlie Greek Gods. William Ellery Leonard. 
Twenty-five minutes. 
17. A Dramatic Office for the Feast of the Presentation. Karl 
Young. Fifteen minutes. 
18. Browning’s Idealism. J. W. Cunliffe. Thirty minutes. 
19. Some Tendencies of Seventeenth Century Autobiography. E. 
H. Gardner. Twenty minutes. 
20. The Purpose of the Book of Ruth. Louis B. Wolfenson. 
Twenty minutes. 
21. The Last Will and Testament as a Form of Literature. Eber 
Carle Perrow. Fifteen minutes. 
22. Tennyson and Unitarianism. Margaret Ashmun. Twenty 
minutes. 
23. The Dream Dance of the Chippewa and Menominee Indians of 
Wisconsin. Samuel A. Barrett. With lantern slide illustra¬ 
tions. (In Room 112, University Hall, at 4:30 o’clock.) 
Evening, at 6:30 o'clock. 
A dinner to the visiting members was served to the visiting mem¬ 
bers. The Centenary of Increase A. Lapham was commemorated. A 
very pleasant feature of the occasion was the presence of Mr. Lapham’s 
daughter and son, Miss Julia Lapham, and Mr. Charles Lapham. 
Friday, February 17. 
Morning Session, 9 o'clock. 
24. Public Libraries and Literary Culture in Ancient Rome (Early 
Empire). Clarence E. Boyd. Twenty minutes. To be read 
by M. S. Slaughter. 
26. The Cost of Living in the Twelfth Century. D. C. Munro. 
Twenty minutes. 
26. The Railways of the Old Northwest before the Civil War. 
Frederic L. Paxson. Twenty minutes. 
27. Fulk of Neuilly. Milton R. Gutsch. (By title). 
28. The Censorship under the First Empire. Victor Coffin. (By 
title). 
29. On a Certain Caution to be Observed in the Hunting of Sources 
and Parallels. R. E. N. Dodge. Twenty minutes. 
30. The Musical Elements of French Versification. Mathurin M. 
Dondo. Twenty minutes. 
31. The Regulations of the University of Wittenberg, issued in the 
year 1546, regarding the dress of the Professors, their Wives, 
and the Student Body; also Restrictions in regard to the 
Wearing of Jewelry, the Cost of Weddings, Betrothals, Bap- 
tismals, and other Festivities. Ernst Voss. Fifteen minutes. 
