D.D. 2. Short Duration of School Attendance: Its Causes and Remedies- Mrs. Daniel Folkmar. 3. The Educational Value of the Popular Lecture Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. The Significance of the Recent Advance in College and University Education in the United States-Hon. William T. Harris. 5. The Influence of Art upon Education - Prof. George L. Raymond. II. Papers of the Departments of Finance and Social Economy: 1. Co-operative Banks and Building Associations; Remarks by the Chairman-Hon. F. B. Sanborn. 2. The George Junior Republic - Mr. Thomas M. Osborne. 3 The Proposed Anglo-American Alliance-Charles A. Gardiner, Ph. D. 4. School Playgrounds and Baths Hon. Josiah Quincy. 5. War Financi-ring Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip. 6. Discussion of the above topic - Prof. Charles H. Hull. III. Papers of the Jurisprudence Department: . Remarks by the Chairman-Dean Francis Wayland. 2. Can International Disputes be Judicially Determined?- Prof. Isaac Franklin Russell. 3. American Marriages and Divorces before Canadian Tribunals-Eugene Lafleur. 4. The Obligations of the State to Public Education Hon. Charles Bulkley Hubbell. 5. Medical and Other Experts-Hon. St. Clair McKelway. IV. Papers of the Health Department: 1. Health in Camps - Dr. Elmer Lee. 2. The Purification of Municipal Water Supplies by Filtration-Chancellor W. J. Holland. In Appendix: Care of Deaf-mutes in Denmark - Holger Mygind, M.D. Abstract of Address on Sociology as based on Anthropology - Prof. Daniel Folkmar. CONTENTS OF NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN.- Address by Hon. S. E. Baldwin, LL.D., on The Natural Right to a Natural Death. Report of the General Secretary, Frederick Stanley Root. 1. Papers of the Department of Education and Art: 1. Remarks by the Chairman-Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D. 2. Education by Newspaper Arthur Reed Kimball. 3. Twentieth-century Education-Arthur Burnham Woodford, Ph.D. 4. The Present Problem of Negro Education- William H. Baldwin, Jr. II. Papers of the Department of Social Economy and Finance: 1. Social Relations in the United States - F. B. Sanborn. 2. Negro Criminality Prof. W. F. Willcox, Ph. D. 3. Expansion as an Historical EvolutionSamuel Parrish. 4. Aims of the Consumers' League - Mrs. Florence Kelley. 5. Present Needs of Prison Management in America - F. B. Sanborn. 6. Financial Administration of Colonial Dependencies Alleyne Ireland. 7. Discussion of the above topic - General Guy V. Henry. III. Jurisprudence Department: 1. Why Law Schools are crowdedIsaac F. Russell, D.C.L. 2. Territorial Acquisition- Henry Wade Rogers, LL.D. 3. The Tendency of Courts to sustain Special Legislation - Hon. John Woodward. 4. The Right to combine - F. B. Thurber. 5. The Training of the Lawyer-Clarence D. Ashley, LL.D. IV. Department of Health. 1. Brief Mention of a few Ethnic Features of Nervous Disease - Irving C. Rosse, M.D. Appendix -Report of Delegates to Chicago Trust Conference.

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GENERAL MEETING OF 1899.

The General Meeting of the Association for 1899 was held at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., from Monday evening, September 4, to Friday noon, September 8. All business transacted will be found recorded under the head of "Business of 1899."

The Departments held sessions as follows:

8.00 P.M.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4.

General Session.

Annual Address by the President, Hon. SIMEON E. BALDWIN, LL.D., of New Haven, Conn., on "The Natural Right to a Natural Death." [Action on vote proposed by the Council, accepting the Charter procured for the Association from Congress.]

9.00 P.M.

Annual Report of the General Secretary, FREDERICK

STANLEY ROor, M.A., of New York.

Appointment of Nominating Committee..

Miscellaneous Business.

9.30 A.M.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5.

Department of Education and Art.

Remarks by the Chairman, Rev. JOSEPH ANDERSON,

D.D., of Waterbury, Conn.

10.00 A.M. Paper by ARTHUR REED KIMBALL, of the Waterbury American, on "Education by Newspaper."

10.40 A.M. Paper by ARTHUR B. WOODFORD, Ph.D., of New Haven, Conn., on Twentieth-century Education."

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11.15 A.M. Paper by WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, Jr., President of the Long Island Railroad, on "The Present Problem of Negro Education."

DISCUSSION.

9.00 A.M.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6.

Departments of Social Economy and Finance.

Opening Address by the Chairman of the Social Economy Section, F. B. SANBORN, of Concord, Mass., on "Social Relations in the United States."

9.45 A.M. A Report by the Secretary of the Department, Prof. W. F. WILLCOx, Ph.D., of Cornell University, on "The Social Relations of the Two Chief Races in the Southern States."

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10.30 A.M. A Paper on Expansion as an Historical Evolution," by SAMUEL PARRISH, Esq., of Southampton, N.Y.

II.00 A.M. A Paper by Mrs. FLORENCE KELLEY, of Chicago, on "The Aims and Principles of the Consumers' League."

12.00 M. A Paper on "The Present Needs of Prison Management in America," debated by Z. R. BROCKWAY, of the Elmira Reformatory, F. B. SANBORN, and others.

8.00 P.M. Finance Section, Prof. J. W. JENKS, Ph.D., Chairman. Introductory remarks by F. B. SANBORN, Chairman of the Department of Social Economy.

8.30 P.M. Address from ALLEYNE IRELAND, Esq., on Financial Administration of Colonial Dependencies."

9.00 P.M.

"The

Discussion of the above topic opened by Brigadiergeneral GUY V. HENRY, late Military Governor of Porto Rico.

9.30 A.M.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.

Department of Jurisprudence.

Opening address by Prof. ISAAC FRANKLIN RUSSELL,

D.C.L., of the New York University Law School, Secretary of the Department, on "Why Law Schools are crowded."

10.00 A.M. Paper by HENRY WADE ROGERS, LL.D., President of North-western University, on "The Acquisition and Government of Territory."

II.00 A.M. Paper by Hon. JOHN WOODWARD, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, on "The Tendency of Courts to sustain Special Legislation."

Discussion of preceding papers.

8.00 P.M.

Paper by FRANCIS B. THURBER, Esq., of the New York Bar, on "The Right to combine."

9.00 P.M.

Paper by Prof. CLARENCE D. ASHLEY, LL.D., of the New York University Law School, on "The Training of the Lawyer."

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8.

Department of Health.

• Chairman of Department, W. H. DALY, M.D., of Pittsburg, Pa.

10.00 A.M.

Diseases.

Brief Mention of a Few Ethnic Features of Nervous IRVING C. ROSSE, M.D., Washington, D.C.

10.30 A.M. A Plan for the Suppression of Yellow Fever. By WALTER C. WYMAN, M.D., Surgeon-general U.S. Marine Hospital Service.

11.00 Α.Μ.

The Increase of Insanity and its Interpretation. By W. J. HERDMAN, M.D., Ann Arbor, Mich.

11.30 A.M. Compulsory Inoculation. By ELMER LEE, M.D., of New York, the Secretary of the Department,