The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-23
US. HISTORIANS.
WILL HOLD
FORUM
BY international News Service

BY International News Service
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 23.-Un-
solved problems of history will be
discussed by leading scholars at a.
series of forums at the forty-third
annual meeting Of the American
Historical Association to be held
mere December %, 20 and 81.
More than 700 historians, repre-
senting schools, colleges, universe
ties and learned societies in all parts
of the country, will attend. Public
health and political conditions in
the South will be chief themes.
The committee on history and
other social studies in the schools
will consider Ok sectives to serve as
guides for the preparation of tests.
Among the detectives listed is ''tol-
erance-racial, religious, national,
and social" The announcement
added:
Know Other Races
Acquaintance with and under
standing of other races, religions,
nations, and social groups is be-
lieved to contribute toward this
end"
''objectives," it was explained. is
the term now in general use in the
schools for the aims and values"
of an earlier day.
At a sectional meeting Prof.
Frank Maloy Anderson, of Dart
mouth College, will present for de-
bate q problem involving the iden-
LITIGATION of the author OF the
anonymous Diary of Public Man,
published in the North American
Review in 1879.
Prof. Anderson's paper will be
entitled, who Wrote the Diary of
Public Man. Amos Kendall,
Henry Wikoff, or KIP
Three or four other historians
who have worked upon this prob
lem OF Identification" the announce
ment said, twill open the discus
sion, at which it Is hoped progress
may be made toward definite con-
clusion of this question"
Presidential Address
The presidential address will be.
delivered on Friday evening, De-
cember %, by Prof. James Berry
Breasted, of the University of Chi
cago, noted for his Egyptian ex-
plorations.f
Prof. Nellie Nelson of Mount
Holyoke College will present a
paper on The Medieval Manor
for open discussion. A session will
be devoted to a paper by Prof.
JIlrich B. Phillips of the University
of Michigan, on The Central Theme
of Southern History"
Reports will be received from
committees engaged in raising an
endowment of $1.000,000 TO pro-
mote American history and history
in America" The headquarters of
the endowment effort are at Column
bia University.
Charles E. Hughes heads the
New York endowment committee.
Ambassador Dwight w. Morrow and
others prominent in scholarship,
finance and the professions are
members.
Sessions of the Indianapolis meet
ing will also take up mooted ques.
tions of the American Revolution,
the West Indies, the Far East,
modern English history, modern
Continental history and the fresh
man course in history.
Historical Societies
There will be a conference on ar
chives and of historical societies,
at which Worthington C. Ford Of
the Massachusetts, Historical Society
will discuss Historical Societies.
Living and Dead
Allied societies converting in In
diapapolis at the same time include
the American photographed Society
the American Catholic Historical
Association, the National Council for
Social Studies, the Mississippi Val.
ley Historical Association, and the
Agricultural History Society.
On the evening of December 90.
Prof. Albert Tangeman Volwiler, of
Wittenberg College, Springfield.
Ohio, will deliver an address on
Benjamin Harrison and the Vene
ZuelaE Tribunal at Paris" Dr
Richard III. Shryock of Duke Uni
versity will speak on THE Public
Health Movement I'm tho Tfpitad