The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-31
NEW YORK NEXT
MEETING PLACE.
Modern Language Association Select
Columbia College.
AN INVITATION DECLINED.
Report of Twenty-Five Thousand
Words by the Committee Of Twelve
on Modern Languages in
Secondary Education.
AN INVITATION DECLINED.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. VA,
Dec. Special-The Modern Language
Association Of America met this morning
in the Y. VI. 6. \. Han.
A telegram was read from the Central
Division OF the Modern Language Assoc
citation. now in session. inviting the AssO-
citation 20 a joint meeting in lndianapoii Us
next year. IL was decided that IL would
De unadvisable % accept this Invitation.
ln consideration Of the joint meeting Of all
the biological associations In 1900. COlum-
bia College. New York. was selected as
the place OF meeting for next year.
A paper ON the origin OF the Runic
Alphabet and the Peculiar Order of the
Runes' prepared by PROT George Hempi
of the University OF Michigan was read
by DR. Bright Of Johns Hopkins. This
paper. which Is a chapter from promised
study OF the runes. discussed the various
theories as 10 the origin OF the runcs from
the Latin, Greek and Semitic aiphaDets,
COMMITTEE OF TWELVE.
Decidedly the event OF the occasion was
the report OF the committee Of twelve.
This committee was appointed in lNl 20
consider the position OF Modern Lam
guages tFrerch and German in secondary
educatiOnl. 10 examine into and make re-
commentators upon methods OF iustruc-
ton. the training OF teachers, and such
other questions connected with the teach
ing Of Modern Languages In the second
airy schools and the colleges as IN the
Judgment OF the committee may require
consideration.
This report Of twenty-five thousand
words IS an exhaustive and valuable pa
per and should be in the hands Of every
teacher Of Modern Languages in America.
Is will be printed in the report OF the
United States Commissioner Of Educa-
ton and probably also in separate form.
Prof Calvin Thomas. Of Columbia Uni
versity chairman Of the committee. gave
a brief resume Of the report which was
too long 10 read in toto.
The above report was unanimously ac-
copied by the Association and the COM
mttee authorized to take whatever stops
seemed proper for the printing and dis
seminatiOn OF the same
DROVE To MONTICELLO.
After the adjournment az the meeting,
carriages were provided by the local COM
mittee for "A drive 20 Monticello. t1e
home Of Thomas Jefferson. three mile
distant from the University.
The final meeting 81 the Association wa.
held tonight. at which the following pa
pers were read:
The influence Of the return Of Spring
on the earliest French lyric poetry" by
Prof. w. Stuart Symngton, Jr.. Amherst
College.
From Franklin to Lowell. a century
OF New England pronunciation by Prot.
c. n .Grandgent. Harvard University
Some tendencies I'm contemporary Eng
lish poetry" nv Mr. Cornelius Weygandt.
University Of pennsylvania.
The development os long IN Modern
English" bv Professor Edwin W. Bowen
Randolph Macon College.
"EXberiments I'm translating AnglO-SaX-
on poetry" by Prof. ]. l.. Han. College
OF William and Mary
"The influence Of German literature IN
America from 1900 10 1895" by Or. Fred
erick H. Wilkens. Johns Hopkins Unlver-
sitv ITO he read bv titlel
"Archaisms I'm Modern French" by Mrs
Therese +. Colin. Bryn Mawr. Pa. TO
be read by title).