Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-02
in JOINT CONVENTION
Three Associations of SCien-
fists in Session Today.
PROMINENT MEN PRESENT
Professors in All the Leading Uni
versities of the Country.
MIR. NEEDHAM'S ADDRESS
President Thos. Day Seymour Of
Archaeological Institute Presides
The Papers Read.

The American Pathological Association.
the Archaeological Institute of America and
the American School of Classical Studies
in Rome met in joint annual convention at
the George Washington University in this
city today, and will remain in session until
Saturday evening. Prof. Thomas Day Sey
mour Of Yale University, president of the
Archaeological Institute, presided. Pro-
lessons from all the leading universities In
the country are present to take part in the
discussion of papers.
The program arranged for today included
addresses by Profs. Ballentine, Buclnell
University: Mustard, Haverford College;
Kent, University of Pennsylvania; Super,
Ohio University; Radford. Elmira College;
Pickard, Missouri University; Harrington,
Wesleyan University; Kellogg and Tonks.
Princeton University: Hopkins. Baur. Per-
rim and Van Buren,. Yale University; Bry-
ant and Moore, Harvard University; Scar
borough, Wilberforce University. and WASH
burn. Chicago University High School.
President Needham of George Washing
ton University delivered the address of
welcome.
Opening Session.
The sessions began last night with the
meeting of the executive committee OF the
Archaeological Institute at the Shoreham.
where the committee discussed at length Its
annual report, and decided upon the form
in which it should go before the general
meeting Of the corporation today. This re-
port will suggest some important changes
in the methods of publication of papers and
reports
Among those present at last nights meet
ing were: Prof. Thomas Day Seymour of
Yale president of the institute; Charles p.
Bowlitch of Boston. one of the vice prest-
dents Of the institute; Prof. Mitchell Car
roll of George Washington University. as
ISOLATE secretary: Prof. Charles E. Ben
nett of Cornell and Prof. John c. Rolf.
members of the committee.
Many eminent scholars of the country will
attend the several meetings of the four
bodies, and several persons prominent In
the educational and official life of the city
will participate in the meetings. The real
business Of the Joint convention began this
morning at 10 O'Clock, when the Philologi-
cal Association was called to oroder In
jurisprudence Hall.
Reading Of Papers.
The attendance was scattering because 1t
was a day meeting. many of the scientific
men in Washington being detained in the
departments by their official duties. There
was q good deal of popular interest in some
of the papers. at least.
Prof. VIM. H. Goodyear spoke OF the dis
coyery Of curves In the work Of the Egyp-
tians In the temple at Corr This Is mat
ter that many people understand as applied
to the Greek and Roman temples, and Is
noticeable In the Cathedral of st. Peter
at Rome But 1t Is not generally under
stood that the same curves exist in the
Egyptian works. though indications now
point to their having been Byzantine In
PRODUCTION, diminishing as buildings are
examined farther northward
The idea Of the curve Is simply to give
an apparently straight line in the long
sweep of the front or the side of a building.
The effect Is OFFICIALLY straight line where
as II the architecture were not distorted
with the most scientific exactness the ac-
tually straight lines would look like curves.
Prof Goodyear showed by photographs
and lantern slides that the eye played all
sorts of tricks with architecture, varying
with the point at which the observer stood
The curve of column or a pediment would
appear convex below the level of the OBJ
was shown a number Of big diagrams of
absolutely parallel lines distorted out Of all
apparent shape by other lines drawn at
ANGLES to them. There were triangles rep
resentfng the pediment of temple In which
the bottom line seemed to sag like skin full
of water whereas in others where the bot
tom line of the triangne was absolutely
straight apparently, 1t was only made to
appear so by having decided arch upward.
Photographs of Temples.
of photographs Of Greek and Egyptian tenn
pies with straight lines ruled across the
negative These showed that while the
buildings were apparently models of archi-
tecturaI exactness, they were really dis