Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-04
AMERICAN HISTORY.
The Association for the promotion of It
Study to Meet Here This Month.

The Association for the Promotion of Its
Study to Meet Here This Month.
The American Historical Association is to
hold its seventh annual meeting in this city
during the last three days of the present month.
Sessions Of the association will be held ut the
National Museum ard at the Columbian Univer-
sity. On Monday, December 90, the meeting
will be opened at PIN. at the university by an
inaugural address delivered by the Hon. John
Jay, LID, the president, and an address will
follow by DR.. ]. G. Bourinot. clerk of the Ca
madam house Of commons. The session Of
Tuesday morning at the National Museum will
be devoted to the discussion of European his.
tory. Among the subjects discussed will DO
the Theory of the Village Community" by
DR.. Charles NJ. Andrews; "A Plea for Reform
in the Study of English Municipal History" by
Charles Gross. Ph.D.. of Harvard University;
bismarck rs the Typical German" by William
G. Taylor. and 1.-THE Formation of the French
Constitution" by Prof. Adolphe Cohn Of
Harvard. go.
The evening session of the same day at the
University will be given up to American con-
stltutional history. Dougless Campbell will
deliver an address upon "How the Written
Ballot Came Into the United States" and Prof.
William p. Trent Of the University of the South
at sewanee; Tenn, will read a paper on "a
Ames Of the Harvard Graduate School. will
speak OH Amendments to the Constitution of
the United States" Edward Campbell Mason
will. ut the same session, read paper OH the
Constitutional and Political Status Of the
Executive ..--- --...-
American Economic History will be the sub
ject treated during the session of Wednesday
morning at the National Museum. On this oc-
casion DIR. Ephraim d. Adams of the University
of Michigan will read paper on the 'Histori-
cal Development of the Budget in the United
States" W. F. Willoughby of the United
States department of labor will discuss state
Activities and Politics." while Edwin " Nor
gan of Harvard will talk about Slavery in
New York" Prof. George E. Howard Of the
University of Nebraska will also read a paper
written by Mary Tremain. 4. NJ. on slavery in
the District Of Columbia the Policy Of Con-
gress and the Struggle for Abolition"
Southern history will be the subject under
consideration during the afternoon session of
Wednesday and papers will be offered on THE
Colony at Roanoke Island" and 1.-THE Organic
cation of Historical Material" the former being
read by Gen. C. W. Darwin and the latter by
w. II. Mace Of Cornell University. This session
will be held at the Columbian University and at
the same place and ON the same evening hi. .
tOrical science i'll a general way will be treated
by DIR. VIM. L. Harris, commissioner of etuca-
ton. who viii talk of ''The Philosophical A.
poets Of History" President ID. G. Gilman Of
Johns Hopkins University will read paper on
The Importance OF Geography to the Reader
and Student Of History" and 1.-The Borderland
between the Archaelogist and the Historian
will be the subject treated OF in an essay offered
by Prof. Otis I. Mason Of the National Museum.