The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-12-26
THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Some Interesting Details of Its FRO
gramne for annual sieetinR.

Some Interesting Details of Its Pro-
gramme for Annual Meeting.
The first session of the seventeenth an
nual meeting of the American Historical
Association will be held tomorrow even
ing at the Columbian University building,
Fifteenth aBd-H Streets northwest. Many
Of the delegates to the Historical Society
are expected to arrive here this-eyening
and tomorrow morning. although some of
them viii not reach Washington until
Friday evening The convention will last
four days, December q, 49, 90. and q, and
there will be two Joint sessions with
the American Economic Association, one
On Friday evening and the other on Mon
day evening.
On Saturday the members OF tho asso-
citation viii visit the Congressional Ii
brary, and that evening ex-senator and
Mrs. John B. Henderson will tender the
members OF the association reception
at their residence, Florida Avenue and
Sixteenth Street. At 9:15 O'Clock Monday
evening there will be an informal gather
ing of the delegates at the Cosmos Club.
At the Friday evening session, which
Economic Association. Prof. Richard T
Ely. president of that body, viii speak on
industrial Liberty" Mr.. Charles Fran
els Adams. president OF the Historical
Society, viii deliver an address on An
/ Undeveloped Function
The morning session on Saturday VIII
be devoted to reading OF papers on his
! toricai records and researches. In the
afternoon the subject Of Church History
nil no at 2 n
| viii be a conference of history teachers,
and at 4:30 private meetings OF the va
rious committees, commissions, and
boards viii be held in the rooms Of the
| Columbian University
| Dr. George E Howard. Prof Herbert
| L 0sgood. Prof. Frederick J. Turner. MI
| Gailard Hunt, Of the State department.
will speak on various subjects in AmeTi-
/ can History during the session on Satur-
/ day European History viii be discussed
| Monday morning by Prof Z / Steven
/ son. Of Rutgers. Prof. EFhraim EnertOn.
! of Harvard. and Prof James Harvey Rob
! insen, OF Columbian University
| The afternoon session on ACnday VIII
/ be business meeting At the joint meet
| ing with the Economic Society. 20 be held
! Monday evening. TIE following programme
! has been arranged:
Party Legislation-in Parliament in
/ Congress, and in the State Legislatures. "
! by Prof 4. Lawrence Lowell. Harvard
( University Discussion opened by Prof.
I Harry Pratt Judson, University Of Chi
cago. Historical Materiaiism and the
/ Economic Interpretation of History by
/ Prof Edwin R. A Seligman, Columbia
/ University Discussion, opened by Prof
/ Isaac A Loos, University of Iowa. and
| Prof. E P Cheyney, University Of Penn
/ sylvania
The subject of Southern History viii
! be considered at the meeting next Tues
! day. 10 be held at the National Museum
/ TIE speakers ard the topics 10 be dis
/ cUssed are as follows:
The Records Of the London Company
/ BY President Lyon C. Tyler. William and
/ Mary College. The Relations Of the
! Virginia Planter and the London Aer-
/ chant" Prof. john :. Bsssett. Trinity
! College. The Place OF Nathaniel A-.con
! in Southern History" by Prof. William Z.
Dcdd. Randolph-MacoR College. Mary
/ lands First Courts" by Dr. Bernard c.
/ Steiner. Johns Hopkins University
i Southwestern History in the Southwest
/ By Prof George ? Garrison, University
! OF Texas
/ After closing reports and announce
! ments the meeting will adjourn