Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-28
GROWTH OF LITERATURE.
Opening OF the Tenth Convention OF the
Modern Language Association.


The tenth annual convention Of the Modern
Language Association of America began at 10
O'Clock this morning in the large lecture room
OF the Columbian University building. The
convention is TO last three days, with three
sessions today, and a morning and an afternoon
session only on each of the two successive DAYS.
The attendance this morning was by no means
large. The nature of the subjects discussed at
the regular meetings of this association are not
such as to make the papers of great general in
terest to the public. Each treatise however. is
prepared BY an acknowledged authority and
the papers are of genuine interest and value to
the students Of the modern languages and their
origins and the growth of their literatures
Among those who were present this morning
were Prof. E. s. Lewis. Princeton College;
Miss, NJ. ]. Ramsey. Miss Catherine Tse, Prof
Homer B. Hubert, GAINESVILLE. Ohio, late Of the
Royal Korean College. Seoul; Prof Henry
Woodward Hubert. Marietta College. Ohio;
Prof. T. NJ. Warren. Adelbert College
Cleveland, Ohio; Prof. John E. Matzke, Johns
Hopkins University, Prof. b. l.. Brown. Ohio
State University. Columbus. Ohio; DIR. Wilhelm
bernhardt. Washington; Prof. Hermann Col
iitz, Bryn Mawr College. Pa: A. " Brown.
librarian United States Naval Academy. An
napolis. Md. Or. Felix Hamburger, Pawtucket
II. l.; DR.. Hermann Schonfield, Columbian
University; DR.. Cyrus Adler. Smithsonian
Institute; Prof. S. NJ. Shute. Columbian Uni
versity: Prof H. Schmidt wartenberg, Missis-
slppi State University; Prof. Herbert Eveleth
Greene, Wells College, New York; Mrs Plat
Foot. Plattsburgh, n. Y; Miss F. F. Moore
Plattsburgh n. y: DIR. Alfred Gudeman, Johns
Hopkins University; and J. ID. Bruner, Johns
Hopkins University.
THE CONVENTION FORMALLY OPENED
The convention was formally opened by the
president of the association, Prof Francis A.
&. Yelling made a pleasant address to the
members on behalf Of the Columbian Univer-
sity. A. Marshall Elliott. the secretary, and
Jas. w. Bright. the treasurer, read their re-
ports for the year. These were adopted and
after ward the president appointed a committee
on nomination OF new officers and the reading
OF the papers was begun. Prof J. ". Pearce
OF Tulane University OF Louisiana read an able
and carefully prepared paper on the subject
Did King Alfred Translate the Historic Ec-
clesiasticaY" Prof. Geo. Hempl was to have
read paper this morning on the subject of the
sources of Udalls ''Roisterdoister. but he was
delayed on his way to Washington and was not
able to reach here until afternoon.
The program for the remaining sessions to-
day is as follows: PM, The Absolute
Participle in Middle and Modern English"
Prof. G. H. Ross, Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Alabama; 2, The Legend of the Holy
Grail, Prof. Geo. NJ. Harper. Princeton Col
lege. New Jersey; 8, The Gardener Daughter
or the Pictures" Prof. John Phelps Fruit,
Bethel College, Kentucky.
THIRD SESSION.
p.m.-Address by Francis A. March. L.
D., president of the association. on '.Recollec-
flons of Language Teaching