New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-04
THE PATHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

The agreeable announcement Is maze mat the
American Pathological Association Will hold us
thirty-frst yearly meeting next month III thls
cIty ne the guest Of New-YOrk University lt IN
oppropriate that 1t should do so for more rea-
CONS than ono. The association had its origin In
this city Yet It has only once revisited ts
birthplace in 1876, when II was. as IL IS 10 De
now. the guest Of NewYork University, al
though it has twice visited each OF at least hail
a dozen other places. Again. New-lorK Is no"
one of the very foremost centres OF literary eau
cational and general intellectual activity III 'his
country. and will thus afford to the association
an environment nowhere surpassed Tor cohgehi-
Atty And if another reason be required IL hiu!
be found I'm the fact that with all It's 1aul's tn's
is still the most delightful city In the lahd 10
visit. In midsummer as well as at any o'hei
time and the philologists will find here hospi'
tality and an accommodation ana genera ue-
lghtf,lness of climate and scenery ana Oil otler
conditions of existence not elsewhere 10 De
rivalled.
The association will find. too, great changes
eince jts last meeting here. The change be-
tween the gloomy and dusty If picturesque old
Irriversitv Building in Washington Square ana
tbe stately group OF modern edifices on UNI
verstv Heights is no greater than that be-
twaen tho educational systems Of the city In
1919 and those to-day The two colleges OF
somewhat limited and provincial character,
which New-York then boosted have now
exnanded into two genuine universities or
scope and standing worthy OF the Ma
,,onal metropolis In equal ratio the standard
of York scholarship has been advanced, the
other school systems, in all grades down TO the
imDrOVPU.
name OF New-YOrk has become as much SYM
bol OF intellectual as Of mercantile or social at
tainment.
II cbould not be necessary to commend, on the
other hand. the association TO the city. The
American Pathological Association is sciehflnc
organization Of practical as well as OF theoreu-
cal value. Its roll at present includes the names
of the foremost American scholars In philology,
while the names Of Noah Porter fhlilp ocnal'
Howard Crosby, a. C. Kendrick William ID.
Whitney and many Others now Marked WIN
"tho fatal asterlsk of death" are a reminder or
Its standing and achievements In past years
Thore "a need of such an association and OF it's
practcal efforts. 1t has bearing, as we hu'e
said not only upon the theoreuc size Oh phiiof
ogy upon acquaintance with ancient ana ioreish
tongues but upon the current use OF our own
tongue as we'll 1t has practical reaiZatloh vi
the fact that 1t profits man little TO kho" ho"
TO use all other languages dead and living an
Gent and modern so long as he knows not now
TO use his mother tongue Alright. And now much
need there is to promote knowledge ana 10 con
serve the merits and the welfare OF our mo'her
tongue the absurd antics Of the Chicago super
intendent of Public instruction abundan'iy tes-
,fv. The existence of single +. Benjamin AN
drews. at large and In working order, prcdicates
the urgent and Imperative necessity or the larg-
ost strongest and most active pathological asso-
| citation this Nation can maintain.