The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-15
TO WEIGH MANY PROBLEMS
The American Social Science As
ISOLATION Meeting.
The Sessions to Be Begun Tonight in
Che Large Hall of the Columbian
University - To Discuss Art, Edu-
cation, Economics, and Literature.

Topics of interest to all who have the
betterment of man at heart will be dis
cussed at the meetings of the American
Social Science Association, which will
begin this evening in the large hall of
the Columbian University. The five days
sessions will be taken up with papers by
authorities on the topics they treat OF,
and nearly every problem in social
science, economics, art, education, and
literature will be considered more or
less at length. Nothing that affects the
progress of the human race as individ-
uals or as nations is foreign to the scope
of the association.
All the meetings win be open to the
public as ii is the purpose of the asso-
citation to spread knowledge upon the
matters discussed as widely as possible.
The organization was founded in 1865 and
has just recently been Incorporated. 1t
is national In its scope and character,
and has about 1000 active members
For thirty years the society has met
in Saratoga early in September, holding
sessions from Monday until Friday. 1t
directs a great deal of its attention to
the publication of scientific articles, and
has published during its existence
about twelve hundred essays on various
subjects. Most of these essays are in
cluded in the thirty-six volumes of the
Social Science Journal" the magazine
of the society.
The work of the association is divided
under five heads, making departments of
education and art, health, Jurisprudence,
finance, and social economy. For each
department a day is given, and each has
its own chairman and secretary. Mem
bership in the body is dependent on
nomination by the executive council, and
the general secretary is empowered to
tender an election on behalf of the
council.
Committing itself to any policy is for
eign to the aim of the society. 1t de-
clares on no side of any topic which may
be under consideration. The object is
not to decide, but merely to discuss and
to publish the results or the discussion
as material and data for those who may
be Interested in research in that partic!i-
lar matter.
The officers of the association are f. j.
Kingsbury. Acting President; Frederick
Stanley Root, of 129 East Fifteenth Street,
New York City, General Secretary, and
the following Vice Presidents: S. f. Bald
win, Francis Wayland, Daniel c. Gilman.
william It. Harris. Carroll d. Wright,
]. b. Angel, Andrew d. White, John Ea-
ton, Lucy Hall-Browne, Mrs. Caroline II.
Dali, Charles A. Peabody. Josiah Quincy,
Grace Peckham Curtis, H. Holbrook Cur
tbs, the Rev. F. G. Peabody, Prof. George
l.. Raymond, Mrs. Virginia 3. McKelway,
and Robert Russell.
The work of the association begins this
evening at $50 o'clock. Prof William NJ.
Sloane. of Columbia University, New
York, will deliver memorial address on
Charles Dudley Warner the late presi-
dent of the association. At the close of
the address the business of the organiza-
ton will begin with the appointment of
Nominating Committee. after which
miscellaneous matters pertaining to the
welfare of the body will be taken up.
Members of the association began TO
arrive in Washington yesterday. The
Gordon Hotel is the headquarters. Among
those who registered were st. Clair Nc
Kelway, of the Brooklyn Eagle Oscar
Strauss, ex-Minister to Constantinople;
Francis Wayland, dean OF the Yale law
school faculty; +. ]. Kingsbury, Eugene
Smith, and Edward Potter. of Newport.