Evening star., 1934-12-23
SOCIETIES TO MEET
HERE THIS WEEK
Historical Bodies to Hold
Sessions Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.

A series of historical society meet
ing, which will bring representatives
from all sections of the country, are
to be held Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday at the Mayfiower Hotel. ..
The main organizations, which are
to meet are the American Historical
Association and the American Catho-
lie Historical Association. Others are:
The Mississippi Valley Historical As
sociation, Conference of State and
Local Historical Societies, Agricul-
tural History Society, American So
ciety of Church History, History of
Science Society, photographed So
ciety of America, Mediaeval Academy
of America, Association of Research
Libraries and the National Council for
the Social Studies are to be held at
the Mayflower Hotel on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of this week.
Many of the meetings will be held
jointly.
Anniversary Meeting.
This will be the fiftieth anniversary
meeting of the American Historical
Association. With the exception of
1918, meetings have been held an
nually, hence this will actually be
the forty-ninth meeting of that body.
Five of the original group survive.
They are Clarence w. Bowen. Davis
r. Dewey, Ephraim Emerton, j. Frank
lin Jameson and Henry E. Scott. They
will be given a founders dinner.
William E. Dodd of the University
of Chicago and now Ambassador to
Germany. is president of this as
sociation and will be present to deliver
an address.
Included among the numerous
speakers will be Secretary of Agricul-
nor, archiviSt of the United States;
Benedetto Croce of Naples, Italy, and
representatives of all of the leading
schools and colleges in the United
States.
Delegates to Be Honored.
While meetings of all of the other
organizations are to begin Thursday,
the American Catholic Historical As
sociation will open its session with a
reception to Most Rev. Amleto Gio-
vanni Cicognani, apostolic delegate to
the United States, at $50 pm. We'd
neSday.
Rev. Michael Williams is president
of the American Catholic Historical
Association, which will begin its regu-
lar session at 10 am. Thursday, with
a Joint meeting with american His
torical Association and the American
Society of Church History.
Speakers will include E. B. Greene
of Columbia University, j. Moss Ives
of Danbury, Conn; P. g. E. Miller of
Harvard University and w. w. Sweet
of the University of Chicago. At 2
pm. that day there will be the final
meeting of the Executive Committee
and at 3 pm there will be the general
business meeting and election of
officers.
Public Session Friday.
At 10 am. Friday there will be a
public session at which the speakers
will be John r. Fitzpatrick, dean of
law at Columbus University; Matthew
Page Andrews of Baltimore, Rev. John
F. La Forge of New York City, Asso-
ciate Justice Pierce Butler and Mi
chael Williams, who will deliver the
presidential address.
The Saturday session will also be
public and begin at 10 am. Speakers
will be Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of
the Graduate School, George Wash
ington University; Rev. Francis Bor-
gia Steck of the American University,
Rev. Robert J. White of Catholic Uni
versity and Herbert E. Bolton Of the
University Of California.