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The article presents titles and abstracts of papers submitted at a meeting held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1938. The paper "The Sequent Occupance of a Boston Suburban Community," presented by Edward A. Ackerman focuses on areas surrounding the Boston metropolitan district. The proximity of a large city market, plots of level land and fertile soil determine the existence of these suburban fanning communities. The article "The Recession of Victoria Falls," by Wallace W. Atwood. The world famous falls on the Zainbesi have had a strange and remarkable history in recession. The gorge is serpentine with many curious off-shoots, and located on the floor of a broad and much older flat-bottomed valley. Today the water tumbles over a ledge, fully a mile in length, and into a very narrow chasm 350 ft. deep.

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the twelfth annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, which was held at the Hotel Sheraton-Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts on November 9-12, 1972. The paper presented by J.C. Jackson and F.K. Graham of the University of Wisconsin cites threshold intensity effects on two orienting response components. Sokolovian theory suggests that the orienting response should be large near psychophysical threshold, fall to a minimum around 10-20 decibels and then rise again until it is depressed by competition with the defense reflex.

Screening of filter paper urine specimens for metabolic and transport disorders has been conducted in Massachusetts for the past few years. Disorders not identifiable by blood screening are detectable by this program. Specimens are obtained routinely by the parents on 3- to 4-week-old infants and mailed to a central laboratory. Testing is performed on discs punched directly from each specimen utilizing several methods of paper chromatography. Cystinuria, histidinemia, Hartnup disease, and iminoglycinuria (Group I) is each approximately as frequent as is phenylketonuria (PKU) in Massachusetts (1:14,219). Other disorders identified, including the hyperglycinemias, argininosuccinic aciduria, hyperlysinemia, hyperornithinemia, and the Fanconi syndrome (Group II) each has a frequency that seems to be no greater than 1:200,000 of the population. Transient abnormalities, such as tyrosinuria-tyrosyluria, generalized hyperaminoaciduria, iminoglycinuria, cystine-lysinuria, and others have been noted. Also diaper creme or fetal contamination of specimens as well as the ingestion of formulas supplemented with DL-methionine, of ampicillin, or of n-acetylcysteine may result in unusual amino acid patterns. A program such as this requires multiple testing procedures, access to proper evaluative and investigative facilities, and cooperation among the various participating groups. The total expense of this program is about $80,000 per year or approximately $1.00 per infant tested. Pediatrics, 49:825 1972, SCREENING, METABOLIC DISORDERS, TRANSPORT DISORDERS, NEONATAL URINE TESTING, PAPER CHROMATOGRAPHY. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the psychology of newspapers along with an exhaustive study of the treatment, which Boston newspapers accorded to revision of the Neutrality Act that gripped the attention of the U.S. in the fall of 1939. This investigation is based upon a complete sample of weekday and Sunday editions of English-language newspapers published in Boston, Massachusetts. The extent to which this simplification of the story took place in the Boston papers was estimated as carefully as possible. The evidence indicates that editors and newswriters attempt to give as comprehensive and adequate a representation of events as they dare; while the readers insist upon selecting, sharpening, and pointing the issue still further to suit their desire for simplification and definiteness. Newspapers must dramatize and select in order to produce in their readers the emotional integration required for a good fight. A newspaper's pattern of influence is built around its editorial policy. Most papers do to a certain extent select news items favoring the editorial policy of the paper, and reject those that are opposed. In summary, the evidence reported in this study is interpreted as supporting five generalizations which are offered here as tentative laws in the new field of the psychology of newspapers: (1) issues are skeletonized; (2) any given newspaper's field of influence is well-patterned; (3) readers are more emotional than editors; (4)public interest as reflected in newspapers is variable in time; (5) public interest rapidly fatigues and presses for an early closure.

The article presents the program of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association to be held from August 26-29, 1968. It will be held in Boston, Massachusetts. The Program Committee, consisting of Chairman Philip M. Hauser, William J. Goode, Robin M. Williams. Jr., O.D. Duncan, and Gerhard E. Lenski is planning sessions on the central theme of "On the Gap Between Sociology and Social Policy". The session topics are as follows: 1) Plenary sessions: Sociology and the Negro Revolt, Sociology and Social Accounting; 2) Thematic Sessions: Conformity and Social Control, Law and the Administration of Criminal Justice, Socialization and Education, Population and Population Control, Sociology and Environmental Planning, The Polity and the Academy, Sociology and Social Development, Sociology and Systems Analysis, Sociology and Socialist Countries, 3) Regular Sessions: The New Sociometrics, Theory Building. In order to broaden member participation in the Annual Meeting, the 1968 Program Committee is planning a limited number of sessions utilizing a Seminar format. Papers contributed by members apart from those scheduled for organized sessions, will be screened and grouped under appropriate subject headings.

The article presents a list of conferences to be held on various topics, from December 27-29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts as part of the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. A meeting on the theme Principles of Efficiency to be presided over by Paul A. Samuelson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The papers to be discussed are The Measurement of Waste by Arnold Harberger and The Efficient Allocation of Capital by Jack Hershleifer. A meeting on the theme Re-Appraisals in American Economic History to be presided over by Douglass North of the University of Washington. The papers to be discussed are A New Look at Hunter's Hypothesis about the Ante-Bellum Iron Industry by Peter Temin, Ante-Bellum Interregional Trade Reconsidered by Albert Fishlow and Canals and Development -- A Discussion of the Issue by Roger Ransom. A meeting on Comparative Costs and Economic Development to be presided over by C. P.Kindleberger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The papers to be discussed are The Experience of India by Wilfred Malenbaum, The African Situation by Walter A. Chudson and The Case of Brazil by Werner Baer.

A conference paper is presented about the commerce of Boston, Massachusetts during the time leading up to the American Revolution. It discusses the source material provided by the Massachusetts Historical Society. It examines tables of annual average clearances and provides a broad view of the total movement of sea-borne commerce. The paper also analyzes imports, the exportation of enumerated colonial products, and the direct trade between Boston and Great Britain.

A conference paper about Concord, Massachusetts is presented. The author talks about several locations he visited within the town, including the farm of Major Simon Willard and the house of Reverend Peter Buckley. Subjects of the paper also include the first settlers in Concord, the organizing of a Christian Church, and the civil interests of the settlers.

The study of the social role of the legislator is important from two points of view: it is essential to the understanding of the actual working of representative government, and it provides a perspective on other occupational roles by contrast. The occupational problems of the politician have been treated by Weber and more recently by Shils; the purpose of the present paper is to continue this analysis by means of data gathered in the course of studies of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, with particular reference to the way in which a person engaged in politics supports himself and reduces the insecurity of his occupation. This paper shall be concerned chiefly with some correlates of the representative's seniority in the legislature. The correlates of seniority are of importance with regard to definition of the representative's role because there seems to be a selective process whereby those who remain longest in the legislature come to terms most fully with the problems that membership poses. Thus this paper examines not only the strains in this role, which is in some ways quite different from the usual occupational role, but also the ways of coping with them.

The article presents proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, held between June 17-22, 1973. All sessions of the program at which contributed papers were presented are joint sessions of the Phycological Society of America and the Phycological Section of the Botanical Society of America. Various topics were covered in different sessions. Session one was on Taxonomy and Morphology while sessions two was on Physiology and Biochemistry.

The article focuses on formal organization and the Americanization process, with special reference to Greeks of Boston, Massachusetts. It presents the thesis that formal organization is an important instrument in the transformation of peasants into citizens of a modern state. An earlier paper dealt with individual and family choices between possible alternatives in the Americanization process. The author states that the modification of personality structure requires less effort if large groups can be handled at the same time. The totalitarian state proceeds by creating authoritarian structures and by compelling membership in them. Conformity to patterns set at the top is enforced upon lower ranks of members. Democracies, too, make use of hierarchical organizations and bring pressure upon individuals to conform to set behavior patterns, but they do not rely exclusively upon such organizations. To make the thesis more specific, the Americanization process has been characterized by a balance between authoritarian structures to which the newly arrived immigrant and his children must adjust and autonomous structures which he creates and can modify to suit his needs and taste.

This article focuses on the birth statistics of Massachusetts during the nineteenth century. The present paper is a report of an investigation which goes part of the way in surmounting the obstacles to our understanding of the trend of American fertility during the nineteenth century by trying to consider the very difficulty which one of these studies was forced to ignore. The difficulty referred to is the degree of under-registration of births in the statistics collected by States. Economist Joseph J. Spengler did try to take this question into account, but the method he used to answer, it failed to produce meaningful results. It should also be pointed out that whereas Spengler was concerned with all six New England States, this study is concerned only with the birth statistics of Massachusetts, which was the first State to inaugurate a registration system and whose birth records are generally considered to comprise the most reliable American statistics of the last century. The investigation covered the years between 1842, when the system was established, and 1901, making a 60-year period extending through the century.

This paper reports the findings of a carefully prepared field experiment conducted in the Boston area to test the "two step flow of communication" hypothesis. The results of the experiment, although far from definitive, seem to call for a reappraisal of the hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a prototype econometric model of current expenditure by local school districts in Massachusetts. The model is specified in such a way as to permit simulation of alternative formulas for distributing general-purpose state aid. In the first part of the paper the model itself will be described. Of particular interest is the finding that block grants may be more stimulating than matching grants in some cases. The article reports the results of simulating a "power equalizing" formula. The key assumption of the model is that local school authorities will show some consistency in evaluating different combinations of local tax rates and total expenditure when the state aid formula changes. A school board is assumed to maximize its preference function with respect to the single control variable. There is no a priori way to choose among the functional forths of that would satisfy the standard first- and second-order conditions for a maximum. Thus, the behavioral equations for two simple functional forms were estimated.

Ralph Stocliman Tarr was born on January 15, 1864, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He died, after a brief illness, at his home in Ithaca, March 21, 1919, being a little more than forty-eight years of age. On graduation from the high school in 1881, Tarr's interest in science led him to enter the summer school of the Peabody Academy at Salem. He accomplished much work on the geology of Cape Ann, a problem which he says was much too big for his experience. It may in truth be said, however, that the report on that region published in the Ninth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey is substantially Tarr's work.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 16, 1941. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The Brown Papers: The Record of a Rhode Island Business Family," "Declension in a Bible Commonwealth," and "The Reverend Robert Jenney."

Displays illustrating papers and graphic expositions not correlated with sessions have become an integral part of annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Exhibits at Cambridge, Massachusetts accented physical geography rather more and human geography rather less than has been the case in recent preceding years. In a number of cases comparable maps of physical and human phenomena were displayed side by side. This appears to indicate a pronounced interest in regional correspondence of phenomena.

This article presents information on the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research that will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel, Copley Square from November 9th through 12th, 1972. Information regarding submission of papers and deadline for abstracts may be obtained from Barry M. Shmavonian, Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Henry Avenue, Philadelphia.

Presents several court cases and rulings in the U.S. published in the November 1896 issue of the "Harvard Law Review." Preference of veterans in the Massachusetts civil service; Certainty as a formal requisite of negotiable paper; Common law pleading; Physical suffering resulting from mental shock.

The article discusses manuscript sources in American radicalism. Scholars interested in American radicalism must be prepared to travel widely if they expect to inspect manuscript sources. Virtually every state, almost every university library of any stature, has some such holdings. Socialists, and other radicals, were prolific writers of letters, memoranda, speeches and pamphlets. They also tended to keep extensive minutes of meetings of branches, committees, national boards, and even of factions. Moreover, most Socialists had a sense of history and preserved their records. Unfortunately, there is no single repository for this Socialist material. At one time it was expected that the Tamiment Institute-then called the Rand School-Library in New York would house the material. But Socialists, in the course of human events, split into innumerable factions, and the leaders of different factions gave their papers to various libraries some of them thousands of miles apart. There were also geographic reasons for the dispersion: the early Socialists of the Nineteenth century lived in Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, and (after 1880) California.

The article presents the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Hall of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston on April 24, 1901. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. A memorial to the late scholar Edward Elbridge Salisbury is discussed. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, along with commentary by members of the Society.

The article presents the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Hall of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 24, 1894. A list of presiding members is included. The results of society office elections are given. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Analysis of the Pictorial Text Inscribed on two Palenque Tablets," by Philipp J. J. Valentini, and "The Rival Claimants for North America 1497-1755," by Justin Winsor.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 21, 1953. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "American Literature: The First Seventy-Five Years," and "Calvin Coolidge: Twenty Years After."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 16, 1946. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "A New England Friendship: John Adams and Henry Knox" and "Peter Martyr and his Works."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 17, 1945. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The presentations given at the meeting are also listed, including the paper "Varnum's Ministerial Oppression: A Revolutionary Drama."