The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-16
SOCIAL SCIENTISTS MEET
First Annual Session COnyenes at
Columbian University.
Election of Officers and Committee
Chairmen-ynriOus Reports Re-
ceiyed-Nemoria1 on Charles Dud-
ley warner-Today's Programme.


ceived-McmoriaI on Charles Dud-
ley Warner-TOday's Programme.
The first session of the American Social
Science Association opened last night in
the large hall of Columbian University.
with F. ]. Kingsbury, LII d.. Acting
President, in the chair. The society's
meetings are open to all persons inter-
ested in any form of science or In any OF
the social problems Susually discussed at
the meetings. In consequence, last night,
there were gathered to hear the open
ing address of the acting president
number of representative scientists and
citizens of Washington. with good
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 fol-
lowing were selected by the chair: Fran
els Wayland, LII. D., of New York; Car
roll D. Wright, of Washington. and st.
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 vice
presidents. and making nominations and
elections to membership come from a
standing committee appointed by the
council instead of from the council itself.
Prof. William NJ. Sloane, LII. D.. of CO.
lumbia University, New York City, a
personal friend of Charles Dudley War
ner, the late President of the Social
Science Association, delivered a memorial
address. He said:
Charles Dudley Warner was a Puritan.
Referring once to volume he had read
in early youth, he declared it to have
been 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
melodist-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 undimmed Judgment of old age
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 own
shortcomings, and repented in sackcloth
and ashes. The result of his stumbles
was that he was able to rise acd go for
ward with higher power.
Warner was born in a Ne- EHglar d
hill town, Of good family. He had bread
education. Among his college mates at
Hamilton were many who are fcSay high
training he had at Philadelphia His first
entrance into working life was in Con-
necucut town. as journalist He was
primarily a newspaper man. but he is best
known as a man of letters. He had the
literary touch and the literary mind
AT the head of the Hartford Courant
he tasted the fruits of editorship and in
fiuence: With war going on under the
eyes OF the people. Warner was able to
WELD with great power his editorial
pen, ard TO conserve at white heat the
patriotism OF his State. Yet, books and
war were his great friends, and the quiet
love of literature was the silver thread
through his whole life.
Ills Summer In Garden introduced
new element into Parnassus. He was
the same man in letters that he was as
newspaper man, and as a scientist; an
apostle of righteousness among men, and
a master of sympathy; a patriot and a
lover of his kind.
He was an abolitionist one of the
chosen men and women who wiped OFF
the earth the last blot of medieval in
iquity, slavery, the great anachronism
projected into the nineteenth century.
Warner was. however of the type who
could see that closer brotherhood might
follow the civil war and what he per-
celVed then Is almost a platitude now. He
saw that there should be between the two
sections an acquaintance as close in peace
as divided as had been that in war.
he mad the rare quality of desiring
to see the other side. He went South
a i'm ttNa *rftx,,
of traveler-a catholic and open mind.
ready for dispassionate discussion. His
investigation was thorough and complete
He got at the heart of the South and
heard the arguments pro and con from
the very lips of the people who were most
interested; people whom later he even
criticised. He realized that the negro is
here to stay and that il is too late to
prevent it. We cannot extirpate them
but rather We can, beginning from the
germ, develop the race, through industrial
training. to usefulness and good citizen
ship. The theory he eXpounded was to
him clear and just formed from the best
knowledge at his command, and not to be
abandoned because others might crlti-
else.
"In his later life he took up the great
subject OF prison reform. and 1t was the
only real sorrow that he took to his grave
that he did not in his life see some definite
success for his favorite movement.
He advocated the indeterminate SEN
tence system and worked for the uni
versal adoption of such a measure with
all his energy. He took up also the mat
ter Of international copyright, and along
this line he was no less active than along
the others.
He died in the midst of his ministering
to lowly surroundings, spreading light on
dark subjects to the unenlightened"
The work today is under the department
of Jurisprudence, OF which Francis Way
land, LII. D.. is chairman, and Prof
Isaac +. Russell, ID. C. L., is secretary.
The first paper will begin at $3.50 a. m.
1t will be on Lawyers Work Among the
Poor" and will be read by the author,
Miss Rosalie Loew.
The remainder of the programme is as
follows: At 10:l5, Edward Livingston
and His Criminal Code" Eugene Smith.
IL. D., of New York City; 100. The
Latin American Constitutions and Revo-
lutions." John w. Foster LII. D., of
Washington. Evening session-At $50.
"Glimpses of Prehistoric Law" w. c.
Robinson, LII. d, Dean of the Catholic
University. Washington; 900, Natural
zation. the Abuse and Remedy" Oscar
Strauss, LII. b., of New York City.
FATHER HOLLAHAN'S FUNERAL