Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-11
Pn,lolos,st. In Council.

At the Pathological society meeting in Nor wich Wednesday, President Lauman in the chair, Professor H. Weir Smyth announced the following committee on nominations: Thomas D. Seymour, Yale university, New Haven; Edward B. Clapp, Illinois college, Jacksonville, III, and Dr. Robert P. Keep, Norwich Free academy.
 Horatio NJ. Reynolds of Yale read the f"r- nal paper of the session, learned sse' s- ton on "Aristophanes' Criticism "l Euri- pides." The writer collected and analysed the criticisms of Aristophsnes, with the purpose of determining more accurately than has been done, the scope, pertinency and animus of the comic poet, especially how far the criticisms are true, as well of Aeschy Jus and SophocIes. It was shown that the criti- cism is as remarkable for what it omits as for what it contains.
 Dr. Leiphton's paper on "Cicero's Medi ceau MSS" was confined chiefly to an &C., count of the origin and history of the two that were copied from the archetypes, one of which was found at Verona, the other at Vercelli. Incontrovertible authorities were cited to prove that these copies could never have been made by Petrarch, but by scribes ignorant of Latin.
 Jchn c. Rolfe of Ann Arbor, Michigan, followed with an entertaining description of an inscribed Kotylos from Thisbe In Bosotis. The inscription is in the Boeotian alphabet, certainly not later that 380 B. 0. It has an interesting and unique use of proper ad jective to designate the owner of the vase, instead of the usual genitive. Representa- tions of all the Greek vases, inscribed with their names (eighty in number) were exbib- ited and compared. The conclusion reached
 %l,o "a stood to designate 8 vase of definite form or capacity; and the same seems to be true of the other Greek names.
 The interesting paper by Professor W. A. Merrill of Miami university on "Sanctli' Minerva and Early Spanish Philology" showed first that there was no national school of philology in Spain, and that Sanchez was the greatest of the few scholars produced by that country. His treatise on Latin grammar was called Minerva, because Minerva was the goddess of reason. and showed the reasons for Latin grammar, many of these being very quaint and antiquated. The influence of Minerva is still predominant in Spain and France.
 Professor T. D. Goodell of Yale university followed with logical paper on "The Order of Words in Creek" The speaker first crit icized the treatment of the subject by others (Kuehner, Short, Weil), and then set forth his own views. reducing the principles which govern the order of words in Greek to three rhetorical and euphonic; 1, e., the necessity of making the syntax clear, the effort to give each element of the thought it's proper importance, ana the de- sire for an agreeable flow of sound. Each group was treated in detail, with pertinent and convincing illustrations.
 One of the most interesting efforts of the morning was Dr. George B. Hussey's paper on s'Continued Metaphor in Plato." In his earliest period Plato seems to have hesitated to strike out into the style of his amateur works. If, however, the later dialogues from the Cratylus to the Laws he arranged in the order suggested by Dittenberger and Ritter, the Phedrus is found to give the fullest play to continued metaphor, and 80 contains a greater admixture of poetry than any other dialogue. The use of continued metaphor rises gradually from the Cratylus through the Georgias, Phmdo, Symposium, up to the and then in similar gradations ebbs away in the The@tetus, Sophist, Philebus, to the laws, which was the work of Plato's old age.
 During the morning Professor w. A. Merrill of Miami university read brief paper on the report made at the meeting of the Scientific last year by the committee on reformation of spelling and pronunciation of chemical terms. This report was distributed and members of the Pathological association were asked to criticise it at their convenience. The most radical proposition was the drops ping of final in hydride, chlorine and simi- lar words.
 During the afternoon the association ad- journed to Kitemaug to enjoy the hospi,ali- ties of the club.
 There was an appreciable falling off in the attendance at the evening meeting, which was also held in the north class room.
 The following program held the attention of the association:
 "The o.Called Medusa Ludovisi," by Dr. Julius Sachs.
 "A Mythological Relic in our Funeral Rites," by Julius Goebel, Ph. D.
 "On Homeric Wit and Humor," by Mr.W. I. Hunt of Yale.
 "Studies in the Vocabularies of the Epg- lish Poets" by Professor F. c. March.