The times., 1901-04-16
SOCIAL SCIENTISTS MEET
First Annual Session COnvenes at
Columbian University.
Election of Officers and Committee
Chairmen-ynriOus Reports he
cefyed-MemoriaI on Charles Dud-
lev warner-Today's Programme.


ley Warner-Today's Programme.
The first session of the American oocldi
Science Association opened last night III |
the large hall of Columbian UniVersity' |
with F. j. Kingsbury, LII. ID, Acthls
President. in the chair The society
meetings are open to ali persons inter
ested In any form of science or in any OF
the social problems fusually discussed at
the meetings. In Consequence, last hlshe'
there were gathered to hear the OPEN
ing address of the acting president d
number of representative scientists anu
citizens of Washington. with sooo
sprinkling of members of the association
from other cities.
The first business transacted was the
appointment of Nominating Committee
to recommend officers and department
chairmen for the ensuing year. The toi-
lowing were selected by the chair: fran
els WayIand LII. D., of New York; Car
roll D. Wright of Washington, and 81.
Claire McKelway, of Brooklyn.
The secretary read an invitation from
the Librarian of Congress to the mem
bers of the association, requesting that
they visit the Library and inspect IT,
Several amendments TO the constitution
were adopted, making all vice presidents
active instead of honorary; adding TO the
| General Council the first and second wee
presidents, and making nominations and
| elections to membership come from
standing committee appointed by the
council instead of from the council Itself.
| Prof William M Sloane, LII. D., of Co
Iumbia University, New York City,
personal friend of Charles Dudley War
| ner. the late President of the Social
Science Association, delivered memorial
address He said:
Charles Dudley Warner was Puritan.
| Referring once to volume he had read
| in early youth, he declared it to have
| been a sower of good seed in the single
assertion. enforced by learning and logic,
that, Life is the reciprocal interchange of
relations His highest concern was his
reciprocal relation to God and man. In
this he was Puritan to the core. NO
beauty, nor good, nor power, when will
has gone forth, but each survives for the
meiodist-when eternity affirms the con-
ception, as Browning says. This exactly
was the Puritanism of Warner, and 1t
inspired him to his latest day.
I'm order to do he must know. With
the fire of youth he set about knowing;
with the undmmed judgment of old age
| he was still curious, insatiably curious to
know. He desired to touch every level OF
life, and to delve into all kinds of mys-
teries.
He was miserable at times over his OWL
shortcomings, and repented in sackclotf
and ashes. The result of his stumble:
was that he was able TO rise and go for
ward with higher power.
Warner was born in a New England
; hill town of good family. He had broa(
education. Among his college mates a
Hamilton were many who are today hiSi
in the estimation of the world His Iega
training he had at Philadelphia. His frs
entrance into working life was in a Con
, | necticut town, a journalist. He wa
l primarily a newspaper man, but he IS Des
| known as a man of letters. He had th'
r literary touch and the literary mind.
AT the head of the Hartford Courant
he tasted the fruits of editorship and in
/. fluence: With war going on under tn
eyes of the people. Warner was able Il
| WELD with a great power his editoria
pen, and TO conserve at white heat tn
patriotism of his State Yet. books ant
l war were his great friends and the quie
: love of literature was the silver threa'
. through his whole life.
Ills Summer in a Garden, introduce
= a new element into Parnassus. He wa
: the same man in letters that he was u
: a newspaper man. and scientist; a
apostle of righteousness among men, an
{ a master of sympathy, a patriot and
g lover of his kind
d He was an abolitionist, one of tn
o chosen men and women who wiped o
the earth the last blot of medieval In
iquitY, slavery, the great anachrOnisr
g | projected into the nineteenth centur,
=, Warner was. however. of the type VII
g | could see that closer brotherhood migf
| follow the civil war, and what he pei
. | ceiVed then is almost platitude now. II
X saw that there should be between the tW
I. | sections an acquaintance as close in peaC
= | as divided as had been that in war.
r He had the rare quality of desirin
to see the other side. He went Sout
d and took with him the greatest attribut
r | of a traVeler-a catholic and open mine
!. | ready for dispassionate discussion. II
l. | investigation was thorough and cOmplet
2, He got at the heart of the South an
# heard the arguments pro and con fro
Is the very lips of the people who were mo-
=, interested; people whom later he eve
.; criticised. He realized that the negro
n here to stay and that il is too late
l. prevent IT. We cannot eXtirpate then
but rather we can, beginning from II
germ, develop the race. through industri
z training. to usefulness and good cittzel
- ship. The theory he eXpOunded was
him clear and just. formed from the be
. knowledge at his command, and not to
abandoned because others might crit
,f else.
d FIn his later life he took up the gres
l. subject OF prison reform, and it was II
to only real sorrow that he took to his gray
,f that he did not in his life see some detini
| success for his faVorite movement.
, He advocated the indeterminate sci
lS tence system and worked for the un
er | versal adoption of such a measure wit
y | all his energy. He took up also the ma
" | ter Of international copyright, ana aloT
~ this line he was no less active than alor
rs the others.
1
e. to lowly surroundings, spreading light
sc dark subjects to the unenlightened.
The work today is under the departme
he of Jurisprudence, of which Francis Wa
g land, Lii. D., is chairman, and Pro
t. Isaac f. Russell, d. c. L., is secretar
Elf The first paper win begin at $50 "a
n 1t will be on Lawyers Work Among &
rit Foor," and will be read by the authC
he Miss Rosalie Loew.
The remainder of the programme is
follows: At 1913, Edward Livingst
and His Criminal Code" Eugene Smit
IL D.. of New York City; n:0o, IT
. Latin American Constitutions and Rev
n lutions," John W. Foster. LII. D..
Washington Evening session-At 8:
1o "Glimpses of Prehistoric Law w.
~ Robinson, IL d, Dean of the Catho
"a University. Washington; 900, "Natura
nd cation. the Abuse and Remedy. Osc
led strauss LII. L., of New York City.
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