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This article presents information about several meetings related to academic societies. The American Political Science Association held its eleventh annual meeting in the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois during December 29- 31. In many respects this was the best meeting which the Association has ever held. The attendance was large, the program were all of unusual interest anti timeliness and a successful effort had been made to give an opportunity in connection with each session for an enlivening discussion from the floor. The thirtieth annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held at Chicago on December 28-31, and attended by nearly three hundred members, was an unusually satisfactory one, due in part to the high general level of excellence and interest of the forty papers presented, and in part to the comfortable arrangements of the entertainment committee, by which most of the members were housed in the sane hotel in which most of the papers were read.

The Socialist Scholars Conference, founded in 1964 by a group of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey historians, held its fourth annual meeting at the university's New Brunswick campus from September 7 to 9, 1968. The original call had been for a conference of "Scholars Who Share a Socialist Perspective." The meetings followed the format of such other scholarly bodies as the American Historical Association and the Modern Language Association, where formal papers and commentators make up the panels. Over the years, conference papers and discussions have covered a wide variety of subjects.

The article focuses on several meetings of associations and institutions. The annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, held in New York City last week, in connection with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has directed public attention again to the progress of psychological research. There was an exhibition of the newer methods employed and results achieved in the various laboratories throughout the United States. One of the largest and, from the point of view of general interest, most enjoyable meetings of the Modern Language Association was held this week at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. The character of the papers was even farther removed from the dry-as-dust productions on specialized philological subjects than were those of last year. Of the twenty-three papers, ten were in the field of English literature, and that mainly modern; and six might be roughly grouped under the head of the technique and criticism of literature in general.

The article presents an editorial on U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign policy trip to the Group of 20 meeting in London, England, followed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and U.S.-European Union summits. The author discusses how Obama will have to overcome the resentment towards the U.S. that former president George W. Bush had incurred.

Socially, the annual meetings of the American Historical and American Political Science Associations at Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia, December 28-31, 1908, were notably successful. The hotel arrangements, permitting the great majority of members to live for the time being under one roof, facilitated the personal conference which forms so large a part of the value of these meetings; for it must be admitted that the obligation to listen to papers and discussions sits less and less heavily upon the members as the years go by. The program of papers and conferences, while, as usual, full of variety and information, developed fewer distinctive excellencies than has sometimes been the case, or than the announced titles would in some cases lead one to suppose.

The article presents information about the meeting of the American Historical Association at Cincinnati, Ohio during December 27-30, 1917. The array of papers and conferences offered at the Cincinnati meeting was exceptionally rich and varied. Professor Albert T. Olmstead, of the University of Missouri, in a paper before the ancient history section on Mesopotamian politics and scholarship, called attention to the success of French and German archaeological investigators, backed by their respective governments, in appropriating the Mesopotamian field, while reprobating the German policy of removing to Berlin many important finds. In addition to sessions for the presentation of formal papers, provision was made, as in former years, for a number of conferences for the discussion of special historical activities.

The article comments on the regular autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. The meeting took place in September 1915 at the American Museum of Natural History, New York city. A large and varied programme of papers had been provided, mainly through the exertions of the efficient local committee, but the exigencies of time permitted the reading of only twenty-two, which were happily grouped so that the biological papers came on the second day, while those having to do with the physical sciences came on the third.

The autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences was held in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 12 and 13. William M. Davis, at Harvard University, in a paper entitled "Physiographic Evidence in Favor of the Subsidence Theory of Coral Reefs," gave arguments for a theory which was proposed fifty or sixty years ago, but which has received scant attention by naturalists since that time. Robert W. Wood, of Johns Hopkins University, contributed the only physical papers, three in number. Ernest W. Brown, of Yale University, presented a paper on "The Problem of the Asteroids."

A years ago one could not have imagined the U.S. eagerly awaiting the news from some church convention. There was no news in a church convention. The papers, to be sure, covered these affairs, after a fashion, and sometimes gave them complimentary write-ups on the first page; but this was done out of courtesy to certain blocks of subscribers and not with any notion on the editor's part that religion was news. Any story which involved religion, in those days, was taboo. No matter how carefully it was handled, it was apt to get the paper in trouble.

This article presents the author's views on the research works of statesman Thomas Jefferson. The papers begins with the last fortnight of Jefferson's governorship of Virginia and closes before he had finished his second period of service in the Continental Congress. If it thus lacks a proper Aristotelian beginning and end, it makes up for the deficiency by an abundance of rich middle. For the historian the value of this volume lies in the fact that it will enable him to see certain events more clearly, in greater detail, than before. Jefferson's intuitive understanding of the nature of freedom has never been surpassed, and he was extraordinarily sensitive to every form of attack on it, however covert it might be.

The article focuses on the 33rd annual meeting of the American Historical Association at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The programme reflected, as was natural, the influence of the war and dealt rather more than is usual among historians with current events. In a conference the timely question of imperialism was discussed in a number of excellent papers, Oriental Imperialism, Greek Imperialism, roman imperialism and its decay. The increasing importance to the U.S. of her relations with the Far East found expression in papers on the Occidental attitude towards China by and on Japanese party politics and emigration.

This article focuses on the book "America to Japan: A Symposium of Papers by Representative Citizens of the United States on the Relations Between Japan and America and on the Comment Interests of the Two Countries," edited by Lindsay Russell. The symposium of papers by Japanese writers of distinction, entitled "Japan to America", the present volume is a response. To insure the future development of Japan, it is imperative that she preserve and strengthen her friendship with both the great English-speaking peoples, and gradually substitute their representative institutions for her present imperialism.

This article reports on the eighteenth annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held in December 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The general arrangement of the program followed the plan observed for several years. The new feature was a special session devoted to international law, in this instance given up principally to papers concerning the Isthmus of Panama and the interoceanic-canal project. The manifold activities of the Association wax greater and more numerous year by year. With a membership of over 1900, the Association is enabled to carry on a wider range of scholarly work than is attempted by any other scientific body in the country.

This article presents an account of a the annual U.S.-based Socialist Scholars Conference which was attended by the author. There were speakers from a wide range of age group. The topics discussed were on several issues such as where does a Socialists heart go these days, if not to the workers of his own country? Well, to the African-Americans, to the native poor and to the peasants of distant lands. Running pervasively through almost all of the nine weekend panels was the theme of search for a new constituency; and if Marx's invidious characterization of both the lumpenproletariat and the peasantry was all but unanimously rejected. it was obviously not so much for "scientific" as for emotional reasons.

"The Nation Associates Conference" held last week-end at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, was a success measured both by the content of the papers and the intelligence and enthusiastic participation of the delegates and other guests. The attendance at the five "working" sessions averaged more than five hundred and represented a wide range of cooperating organizations, some sixty in all. A reported request by Great Britain for American assistance in solving the problem of its war-time debts to Asiatic countries has been dismissed out of hand by Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who described it as "astounding." U.S. President Harry S. Truman recently felt called upon to observe that it was "an insult to the intelligence of the American people" to drag out the "northeastern scarecrow of socialism."

The article focuses on various political developments around the world. The first news is on the Chicago Convention. The full roll, as fixed by the National Committee, will be 980-491 to nominate the U.S. President William Howard Taft has a far larger number than any other candidate. Another development has been about the representatives of 774 newspapers, who assembled in U.S. at their annual convention. They unanimously asked that the U.S. Congress and President to grant them "immediate relief from the exactions of combinations of paper-makers.

This article presents information on several socio-political developments in the U.S. as of 1867. The mania for buying territory seems to be growing stronger. The last report on the subject is, that the Spanish Government proposes to sell Cuba and Porto Rico to the U.S. for one hundred and fifty millions of dollars, and are told by telegraph from Havana that "the public heart is beating with anxiety at the announcement," as the extinction of slavery would be one of the consequences of the sale. The Alabama Convention, which Southern papers have covered with abuse of the kind common in Southern papers, was mainly composed, say trustworthy accounts, of men long resident in Alabama, three-fourths of the whole number, to say nothing of the sprinkling of blacks, having been old Alabamians of good standing in their several communities, and not Northern adventurers, as the Mobile Times was fond of saying in Alabama.

This article presents information regarding political development in the U.S. To appoint a new secretary of state a fortnight before the opening of the San Francisco Conference would have been practically impossible, but it would have been still more harmful to allow any diminution of his prestige while the conference was still under way. A new crisis developed in San Francisco last week-end as a result of Russia's opposition to the formula, worked out, by the Big Five, for diminishing the veto right of the major powers. Insight into the Australian Government's struggle at San Francisco for a full-employment clause in the United Nations Charter is provided in a White Paper just issued at Canberra.

This article focuses on the quality of report provided in newspapers regarding the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace which held in the U.S. in March 1949. With certain notable exceptions there was a general abdication of the responsibility to furnish an impartial report, most of the New York newspapers not only condemned the conference in their editorials, as they had a perfect right to do, but sought to discredit it in their news columns. Stories were slanted, headlines were loaded, incidents were invented, wild and absurd charges were played up, outright lies were printed as solemn fact.

This article highlights some international issues. A national conference on good city government is to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the 25th and 26th of this month, when various gentlemen connected in one way or another with the work of municipal reform will read papers or make addresses. It is unfortunate that the Republican National Committee has endorsed the proposition to admit as States Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. But apparently the Republican managers have concluded that they stand as good a chance as the Democrats of controlling half or more of the proposed new States, encouraged to this view regarding Utah doubtless by their party's recent victory for the first time in a municipal election at Salt Lake City, Utah.

This article reports on the fifteenth annual meeting of the American Economic Association, held on December 29, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the collaboration of the University of Pennsylvania. The larger circumstance responsible for a successful meeting of American political economists at this particular time is, of course, the extraordinary development of economic study in the United States. It has become almost a commonplace to prophesy that the scientific leadership in economic inquiry, which two generations have seen pass from Great Britain to Germany, will ultimately reside in the United States.

The article presents economic and social updates of the U.S., as of November 28, 1901. How strong, and often malign, may be the prejudice connected with old battle cries, was shown again at the opening of the Reciprocity Convention in Washington on November 19. To some delegates, free trade was evidently a dragon hidden somewhere in the hail, and ready to rush upon them if they were unwary. In another update, at the Charities Conference last week George F. Canfield, President of the State Charities Aid Association, read a paper on the influence of politics on State and city institutions. The conclusions, which he reached, are founded upon reports received in answer to inquiries sent throughout the State asking information on this particular point.

Presents letters to the editor related to political conditions in the U.S. during the 1970's. Reason for lack of clarity among the citizens regarding the electoral process; Information about National Conference on Worker's Self-Management to be held on January 12-13, 1974 at Boston, Massachusetts.

This article focuses on the convention of the American Newspaper Publisher's Association in New York. Some of this discussion was carried on under the label, "the freedom of the press," but the problems in hand were precisely like the problems of other business men. Under some circumstances there could be no reasonable objection to this. Unless a paper pays its way, or thereabouts, it cannot exist in a fiercely competitive civilization. The same economic forces which have brought the chain store into existence are responsible for the growth of newspaper chains.

The article focuses that the American Library Association opened its thirty-third annual convention in California, with five hundred delegates, one-fourth of whom came from the far-away East. A week was devoted to addresses, reports, and discussions which elicited many opinions in regard to library extension and usefulness. Among the leading papers presented at the convention may be mentioned those of the president, J.I. Wyer, of the New York State Library, A.E. Bostwick, the new librarian at St. Louis, and Demarchus C. Brown of the Indiana State Library.

This article presents information on social conditions of several nations. The second annual National Negro Conference for the discussion of the problem of African Americans, was met in New York, last week. This year, the discussions were concerned with disfranchisement--how disfranchisement affects an Afro-American in the courts, in the schools, at the ballot-box, and in his other relations to the communities in which he dwells. The year 1910 is the centennial of national independence for the greater part of Spanish America. The recent growth of Argentina has been such as to disprove many facile generalizations about the decadence of the Latin race. Given equally favorable conditions of climate and natural resources, the Latin peoples who make up the population of Argentina have demonstrated their ability to keep pace with the self-complacent Anglo-Saxon. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, undertook to introduce in the U.S., the methods and standards of the great universities of Europe. The project was attended with immediate and brilliant success.

This section presents various articles related to socio-political issues. One of the article discusses about an international agreement in favor of international arbitration and The Hague Conference in which Julian Pauncefote laid before the delegates a proposal for the formal establishment of a permanent arbitration tribunal. Another article focuses on the shortage of paper currency in the U.S. The reason why the shortage exists is that there has been an increase of business, which has called for a larger number of instruments of exchange.

This article presents information regarding books and journals. The Arkansas Legislature, Historical Society, and Eclectic Society of Little Rock have combined to suppress the vulgar pronunciation of the name of the State, viz., Arkansas, finals sounded, and to constrain all cultivated persons, and especially all dictionary and school-book makers, to observe the State's preference for the original and orthodox pronunciation, as first adopted by the U.S. Congress. The June 1881 "Harper" has a characteristic table of contents readily estimated from a bare enumeration of the titles. The emphatic illustrated article is Samuel Adams Drake's "White Mountains," a first paper, with beautiful designs, chiefly by W.H. Gibson.

The article presents information about the book "The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787," edited by Max Farrand. Some of the sources of the book include "The Journal of the Convention," kept by the U.S. secretary, William Jackson, preserved in the State Department at Washington and first printed in 1819, notes of the proceedings of the Convention taken down by member James Madison of Virginia, documents drawn from the papers of scholar James Wilson and extracts from letters and scattered writings of various members of the Convention which throw light upon the proceedings.

This article discusses the matter related to science. The autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, held in Boston, Massachusetts November 20, 21, 22, 1906 in the new buildings at the Harvard Medical School, was notable in several respects. The papers presented by guests and members in the scientific sessions of the Academy included the following "Experiments in Aerodromics," by A.G. Bell of Washington, "Acoustic Measurements," by A.G. Webster of Clark University, "Continental Sedimentation," by J. Barrell at Yale, "Evidence of Desiccation in Chinese Turkestan," by Ellswort'h Huntington of Harvard, and others.

This article presents information on politics issues of the U.S. The condition of Border State politics grows worse rather than better. At Platte City, Missouri, in a fight between what the telegraph styles "rebels" and some members of a "radical" convention, four or five men were killed and a dozen or more wounded, which was held and regularly picketed by their assailants. The firmest, most prudent, and most harmonious management by the Federal and State authorities in Missouri, will be absolutely necessary to prevent serious trouble at the November elections; but this is to be hoped for rather than confidently. The activity of the Fenians causes the continued despatch of troops from England to Canada, and continued arming and drilling in Canada, where the excitement has reached such a pitch that the "Herald," usually a sensible paper, proposes to declare war on the United States. Cleveland, Ohio, seems to have given the military convention even a colder reception than Philadelphia gave its greater prototype, the convention of August 14. There is no reason why the city should be particularly enthusiastic.

At the May 1945 peace treaty summit West Germany has been included in the European Defense Community and consequently in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As soon as the agreements were signed they were bused by the U.S. to block new discussions with the Soviet Union. The extreme weakness of France in Europe has been exploited by the U.S. as an argument for the rebirth of the German army. The Soviet Union has used this in turn as the excuse for a vigorous call to arms in East Germany. But West Germany cannot raise an army rapidly without the help of old Nazi cadres and of officers sympathetic to the Nazi regime.

This article focuses on several developments in the U.S. and around the world, as of May 18, 1899. The Poles of the U.S. have sent out a pamphlet entitled, "The Cause of Poland and its Relation to the International Peace Conference." A few days ago the announcement was made that the Finns in the U.S. had secured from U.S. President William McKinley a promise that the cause of the Finns in their own country should be brought before the Conference by the delegates of the U.S. Another development focuses on the rising demand in the U.S. for the Senator Edward Atkinson's pamphlets from the mails destined for Manila.

The first week of the annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor in Atlantic City would seem to have demonstrated once more the backwardness of American organized labor and the inadequacy of American labor leadership as exemplified by the so-called "Gompers machine." This backwardness and inadequacy, obvious enough and disastrous enough in the piping times of peace, stand out with startling clearness against the world's present social unrest and are well-nigh fatal to the chances of an intelligent American movement toward reconstruction.

This article presents in formation on various socio-political developments in the U.S. and from around the world. One of them being a report on the Illinois Republican Convention. The Republications distinguished itself by adopting in its platform a currency plank which declares that the Republican party has given to the people the best of paper currency ever devised, and would deprecate any legislation that might, by any possibility try to remove it. This is one of the best examples of the art of platform-making as developed in the U.S. Another being a report on the U.S. Senate Committee on Railroads which have made a report on the relations between the Pacific Railroads and the Government which shows the principal of the bonds issued to them to amount to U.S. $64,623,512, and puts the total amount of interest which will be due from the companies on an average, in 1898, or at the maturity of the bonds, at U.S. $116,322,321.

It is informed that the twenty-fourth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will be held at Detroit on August 11, 1875. Within the past fortnight has appeared the volume, of proceedings at the meeting held last year at Hartford. It contains a large number of interesting and valuable papers. It is also informed that an exhibition of revolutionary relics has been opened in Boston for this week under the best auspices. It takes advantage of the attraction of the Bunker Hill celebration, and the net proceeds will be placed at the disposal of the Ladies' Centennial Commission of Boston.

The article focuses on developments in the field of science. The article contemplates on the significance of the annual spring meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., on the preservation of its national character. In this context, the author also analyzes the proceedings of previous meeting of the academy that took place in New York City from November 21-22, 1911. The author throws light on papers that were discussed in the meeting related to various subjects in the field of science.

Presents letters to the editor related to articles that were published in the previous issues of this journal. Reference to Hanson Lewis' argument against the formation of a farmer-labor party; Correction to the article "A Pacifist Mother"; Plans discussed at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's fourth biennial convention in Washington D.C.

This article presents information on the socio-political and administrative development in the U.S. and around the world during the year 1902. One of the significant development being the announcement made from Washington, by the Attorney-General, U.S. himself, that a suit will shortly be begun by him to test the legality of the merger of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railway Companies. Further, that the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt requested his opinion as to the legality of the merger, and that he had recently given his opinion that it violates the provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890. Another being U.S. Secretary, John Hay's formal protest against the secret convention between China and Russia.

The article focuses on an association for Scandinavian studies. The association is unique as it brings together for the first time in the U.S. men of various nationalities who are drawn together by their common interest in Scandinavian culture. With these appropriate words Prof. G.T. Flom opened his address on "Scandinavian Studies in American Universities" at a meeting held in Hitchcock Hall of the University of Chicago, Illinois on May 26. The meeting at Chicago lasted two days, Friday and Saturday, the 26th and 27th of May.

This article presents information on the third annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America which was held on December 29 and 30, 1886, in Boston, Massachusetts. The Association has a large membership, but many of the leading colleges and scientific schools are still unrepresented at its meetings. In this respect it fairly reproduces the prevailing interest in scientific and linguistic research. The papers presented covered a wide field, embracing the results of special investigations, methods of instruction, and the place of the modern languages in modem culture and in university education. At the earlier meetings the existence of the society was threatened by numerous representatives of schools and of fanciful methods of instruction, each of whom sought to give prominence to his theories, and this was followed by a warfare on the classics and classical culture.

The article presents information on various political developments around the world during the early 1880s. According to a report the annual session of the American Library Association was held at Buffalo, beginning on August 14, 1883 and ending on August 17, 1883. Many interesting papers were read at this session. According to another report the French trade-returns for the first seven months of 1883 show that the value of the imports increased 58,000,000 francs as compared with that of the same period last year and that the exports decreased 50,000,000 francs. The increase in the value of the imports was due to the demand for foreign raw material. The decrease in exports was in manufactured goods.

To attend a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science can be an exciting experience. The activity one feels, is combined somehow with detachment, one senses the presence of great minds and the free flow of ideas. But scientists who gathered at Berkeley were conscious of a feeling that the air was pot quite fresh and the light not quite clear. There was sense of oppression which seemed to stem from the convention's preoccupation with security. A group discussing ways to improve the quality of science teaching in public schools was forced to consider the effect of security on the desirability of a scientific career.

The article focuses on the geographical congress held at Paris, France. The evening papers of to-day in New York should contain a telegram announcing that in the distribution of awards this afternoon by the Geographical Congress some six or eight of the first honors, in letters of distinction and in gold medals, were accorded to institutions and citizens of the United States. More than a year ago, the Geographical Society of Paris, pursuant to the action of the first Congress, held at Antwerp in 1871, decided to convoke at Paris a second International Congress, representing geography and its affiliated sciences, and appointed a bureau to make the necessary arrangements.

The article focuses on one hundred and twenty-ninth meeting of the American Oriental Society which was held on April 10-11, 1919 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in Boston. As a result of the growing interest in Oriental studies in the U.S., a Western branch of the Society has been formed in Chicago, Illinois with the approval of the directors, in order that those living at too great a distance to attend the annual sessions, which are necessarily limited to cities on the Eastern seaboard, may also have an opportunity of coming together.

That the conference of Governors devoted so much time to the consideration of prison questions is at once a significant indication of the importance now coming to be universally assigned to such questions and an illustration of the varied usefulness, which these conferences may have in the United States. Unlike some of the questions that have come before the Governors, this of prison management raises no questions of party controversy, nor any issue of the division of powers between the States and the Federal Government. In many of the States there is going on an earnest effort to advance toward a higher standard in prison management. The importance of permitting the convicts to get in large measure the benefit, for themselves or their families or both, of the proceeds of their work, is coming to be more and more widely recognized. In relation to the largest and deepest problems of the treatment of crime, the question of quality in the prison officials becomes absolutely essential.

The young activists who went to Seattle, Washington, to shut down the World Trade Organization and to Washington D.C., to protest the World Bank and the IMF had been getting hammered in the press. these commandments. The anticorporate protest movement that came to world attention on the streets of Seattle last November is not united by a political party or a national network with a head office, annual elections and subordinate cells and locals. It seems like a perfect description of the protests in Seattle and Washington DC. These mass convergences were activist hubs, made up of hundreds, possibly thousands, of autonomous spokes.

The article presents information about events taking place in Alaska and Connecticut. Alaska's social action group, AkPIRG, has invited Alaskan progressives to meet members of "The Nation's" cruise at a reception in Anchorage, on Saturday, August 28, 1999. URPE Summer Conference is organized from August 21-24, 1999 at Camp Chinqueka in Bantam. This year's theme is "Political Economy, the Environment and Economic Crisis." The conference is devoted to analyzing the nexus of political economy, economic crisis and the environment.

The article presents information on the upcoming events scheduled to be held from December 21, 1986 to January 22, 1987 in the United States. An exhibition of paintings of Nicaragua Libre by Marcos Byrd will be held at 6 East First Street, New York City from December 21, 1986 to January 10, 1987. A conference on the topic "U.S. Policy in the Middle East: Arms Sales and Beyond" will be held at Riverside Church, 9th floor Tower Lounge, 120th Street and Riverside Drive, in New York City on Sunday , January 4,1987 at 12:30 p.m. Admission is free for all participants.

The article presents information about various events. The 5th annual symposium related to peace law and the militarists will be held from October 26 to 27, 1985 in the University of California, Berkeley, California. National anti-Apartheid protest day was observed on October 11, 1985. A rally against Citibank's links to South Africa was taken out. The San Francisco Mime Troupe presents Steel Town, a musical comedy in various cities and towns in the United States.