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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.

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.

The article offers information on the Third National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America which was held on Boston, Massachusetts on November 23-24, 1953. The main topic of the meeting focused on operations research in business and industry including inventory control and production scheduling and consumer shopping. One of the research papers discussed in the conference is "The Distribution of Searching Effort," by Bernard O. Koopman.

A conference paper pertaining to the movement of retail trade in metropolitan areas is presented. The author discusses the work of the Boston University Bureau of Business Research in the creation of a retail trade study for the Boston market area. This study is based off of information found in the 1930 Census of Distribution.

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.

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 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]

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."

This article presents information about meetings related to management science. The national joint meeting of The Institute of Management Sciences and Operations Research Society of America will be held during 22-24, 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Boston hotel. The deadline for abstracts of contributed papers is October 31, 1973. For those wishing to attend, there will be sessions on the following topics: Long Range Industrial and Economic Planning Under Uncertainty; Operations Research Models in Financial Planning and Nonlinear Programming; Scheduling. The First Annual Systems Engineering Conference will be held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in New York City during November 28-30, 1973. A Symposium on the Petroleum Geology of the Georgia Costal Plain will be held in Americus, Georgia during February 18-19, 1974. It will be presented by Georgia Southwestern College in cooperation with the Earth and Water Division of the Georgia State Department of Natural Resources. The Association Internationale pour le Calcul Analogique, in cooperation with the International Federation for Information Processing, has organized an International Symposium on "Hybrid Computation in Dynamic Systems Design" which will be held in Rome during November 11-14, 1974.

Whatever the usefulness of a physician attached to a court of justice may be in examining and giving an opinion on individual cases, he has a broader and more difficult task, namely, that of trying to throw some light on problems which may have, at the same time, medical and a legal aspect. The more we dwell on these problems the more we are aware of their difficulties which, however, are, to a great extent, not inherent to the problems themselves, but are due to the way in which they are approached. The main difficulty, I believe, is the lack of mutual understanding between physicians on one hand and, on the other, those who have to deal with the law or the criminals. The aim of this paper is to bring about a mutual understanding on the question of morphinism, which I consider as medico-legal and, next to that of insanity, the simplest with which we have to deal. I hope that what 1 have to say will arouse sufficient interest to cause its discussion and, above all, that it will be of some practical value.

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 an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts on April 19, 1933. A list of presiding members is given, mention of the death of former society president Calvin Coolidge is provided, and a list of papers presented at the meeting is included such as "General Washington and the Loyalists," "The Early Circus in America," and "The Narragansett Planters."

The article discusses the wealthy men of Boston, Massachusetts, which historians have claimed were largely members of the Whig political party. A study by Frank Otto Gatell of New York City's rich found that nearly 85 percent of those surveyed were members of the Whig party. The paper uses wealthy citizens list that provide the name of affluent Bostonians to recreate Gatell's survey and apply it to Boston in the nineteenth century, thereby testing the validity of the claim that most wealthy Bostonians were Whigs.

Presents information on the final report of the Committee on the Peirce Homestead presented to the Charles S. Peirce Society during its annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on December 28, 1972. Resolutions adopted by the committee regarding the homestead of philosopher Charles Peirce in Milford, Pennsylvania; Suggestions concerning the use of arisbe; Recommendations regarding the foundation officers, sources of funds and uses of income.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium on chemical and bacteriological warfare of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science held in Boston, Massachusetts is presented. Speakers discuss the effect of the chemical and bacteriological weapons to the public health, which are found to be more humane than the nuclear weapons. The symposium features several scientists like Henry T. Yost, Salvador E. Luria, and J. Huston Westover.

This article focuses on the recent developments in Northeastern University Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Professor Irwin L. Herrnstadt gave a paper dealing with the implication of changing occupational structure for education and social welfare to the Advanced Administrative Institute of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (July 6-17, 1964) and to the Pine Woods Institute for leaders in social welfare planning (July 23-26, 1964).

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at Ellis Hall of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston on April 10, 1912. 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 "Massachusetts Almanacs," by Charles L. Nichols, and "Vitcos, the Last Inca Capital," by Hiram Bingham.

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 18, 1945. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The presentation of the papers "The Results of Columbus's Discovery," "Casting the National Horoscope," and "Uncensored Letters of Mrs. John Adams," are also mentioned.

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 19, 1944. 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 Nature of American Loyalism" and "American Literature and American Politics."

The article presents the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts on April 18, 1934. A list of presiding members is included. Elections for society leadership offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are listed, including "The Early Massachusetts Bay Seals," by Matt B. Jones, and "The Beginnings of the Library in Charles Town, South Carolina," by Edgar L. Pennington.

The article discusses the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, April 18, 1928, held at the House of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts. The article lists the members present at the meeting, including Reuben Colton, William Eaton Foster, and Julius Herbert Tuttle. People recommended to join the Society are mentioned. Papers that were presented at the meeting are also listed, including one on Puritan politician George Downing and another on Boston bookbinders.

The article presents the proceedings from the April 8, 1925 meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, held at the House of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts. Lists are provided of attending members, papers presented, and the results of society decisions voted on during the meeting.

The article offers information on several meetings which were either held or to be held by various institutes and associations related to biological sciences. It states that a NSF Summer Conference on the Mathematics of Biology will be conducted by the Division of Mathematical Biology at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts from June 22 to July 12, 1964, and a Conference on Estuaries will be held at Jekyll Island, Georgia from March 31 to April 4, 1964. It offers information on the Adanson Symposium sponsored by the Hunt Botanical Library of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from August 18 to 19, 1963. It mentions that the symposium featured several botanists who discussed the contributions of Michel Adanson, an 18th century French naturalist.

Successful membership in the complex organization has become an important economic and social aspect of adult life in Western society. The study examines distribution of services provided by large manufacturing companies in Greater Boston to encourage individual success at work. It analyzes organizational profile data to reveal four types of employing organization in the sample, each employing a different type of population, and supplying a different level of service. Findings show that the level of human support services provided is not related to employee characteristics but is related to certain system variables, suggesting that services occur in response to system characteristics rather than worker needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article investigates why property insurance can be difficult to obtain in urban core areas in the U.S. Federal programs have been instituted to help alleviate the problem, but the causes have attracted little attention from researchers. The author presents an empirical study of fire losses in various neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. Regression analysis on fire-loss and insurance company data identifies price ceilings as the chief cause of insufficient availability of fire insurance. At prevailing prices insurance firms realize losses, and thus stop insuring certain areas.

The article describes methods of teaching sales management at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. A discussion is presented about the types of students entering sales management programs in both traditional college courses and adult evening courses. Details related to the selection of faculty for business courses and the goals of the program. The author stresses the importance of experimentation by both students and faculty in order to train sales managers who keep open minds and are aware of the countless problems in the sales business.

The article discusses the decentralization of retail trade in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the author, during the decade of the 1930s, retail trade in Boston shifted from the metropolitan area to outlying communities. The author notes a number of factors influencing the purchase of shoes in the city. According to the author, women chose certain stores because of better styles, better quality and lower prices, while men chose stores because of quality, style, a larger assortment and based on the store's reliability.