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YALE ALUMNE CC ee AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASWN, Fourteenth Annual. Meeting Well Attended—The Papers. The American Historical Association held its fourteenth annual meeting at New Haven, beginning Wednesday, Dec. 28, and lasting through Thursday and Friday. The meeting was attended by many prominent men from all parts of the country. Prof. William Cun- ningham of Cambridge University, England, was present at.most of the sessions and spoke informally once. Officers for the coming year were elected as follows: ; President—James F. Rhodes of Bos- ton. First Vice-President—Edward Eggles- ton of New York. Second Vice-President — Professor Moses Coit Tyler of Cornell. Secretary — Professor Herbert B. Adams of Baltimore. Assistant -Secretary — Professor A. Howard Clark of the Smithsonian In- stitute. Treasurer—Dr. Clarence W. Bowen of New York. Secretary of the Church History Sec- tion—Samuel Macauley Jackson, D.D., LL.D., of New York. Executive Council— Professor H. Morse Stephens of Cornell, Professor Frederick J. Turner of Madison, Wis., Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller of Washington, D. C., Professor George Burton Adams of Yale and Professor A. C. McLaughlin of the University of Michigan. Although a joint session was held vith the New England History Teachers’ Association Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, the real open- ing of the Historical Association was held that evening at 8 o’clock in Colonial Hall, where the address of welcome was given by President Dwight The inaugural address by Prof. George P. Fisher of Yale, Presi- dent of the Association, was followed by apaper on “Municipal Life in the Twelfth Century,” by Prof. J. M. Vin- cent of Johns Hopkins University. On Thursday morning papers were rad on “Institutional History of the later Middle Ages,” by A. L. Lowell of Harvard, and on “American Colonial History, 1690-1750,” by Prof. C. M: Andrews of Bryn Mawr College. In the afternoon, Church History held the foor, papers being read on “Beginnings of Protestant Worship,” by Prof. J. W. Richards of Gettysburg; “Erasmus,” by Rev. George Norcross, Carlisle, Pa.,~ and on “Zwingli and the Baptist Party inthe City of Zurich.” Following this session Prof. George P. Fisher gave the members of the Association a recep- tion at his home, which was largely at- tended. DIPLOMATIC HISTORY. Diplomatic History was dealt with at the evening session. Three papers were rad on this subject: ‘“Napoleon’s Plans for French Colonies in Spanish America,” by Professor William M. Sloane, Columbia ‘University; “The Search for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary,” by Professor George L. Burr, Cornell University; “The Dip- lomatic Relations of the Confederate States and England, 1861-65,” by_Dr. J. M. Callahan, Johns Hopkins Uni- versity; “American Diplomacy,’ by Prof, E. A. Grosevenor, of Amherst College. The papers’on Colonial History and Policy on Friday were: “A Forgotten Danger to the New England Colonies,” by Dr. F. A: Strong of Yale; “Some Lessons from the Recent History of European Dependencies,’ by Prof. Henry E. Bourne of Western Reserve University, and “The Constitutional and Legal Aspects of the Government of Dependencies by the United States,” by Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, Dean of the Yale Law School. The closing session at 2.30 on Friday discussed Historical activities, a paper being read by Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, Supt. of MSS. Dept., Washington, on “Historical Manuscripts in the Library of Congress.” The report of the His- torical Manuscript Commission was read by J. Franklin Jameson of Brown - University, and after the business meet- ing and election of officers an adjourn- ment was taken till the Christmas va- cation week in 1899, when the Associa- tion meets in Boston, Mass. OBITUARY. [Continued from “reed page.] its work. In this society, as in others to which he gave more than’ passing attention, as one of his friends well said, he quickly became a leader whom all recognized and were glad to follow. “Another club, one of a social nature, in which he took great interest, was the University Club. He was one of the founders of this and the first president, holding that office for four or five years. He was one of the organizers in 1881 of the Chicago Musical Festival Asso- ciation,- which first brought Theodore Thomas prominently before Chica- goans.” At the time of his death he was pre- paring a work on the History of IIli- nois for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, which was to have been published in two volumes. He has left the manu- script for about half of this, and it is said that from the notes that he had ~ made, the remainder can probably be completed. The work is looked for- ward to with a great deal of interest, owing to Mr. Mason’s reputation for most intimate acquaintance with all the sources and facts of the history. He had, as well, a most interesting style of treatment. His principle ad- dresses were at the unveiling of the statute of La Salle in Chicago in 1889 and the unveiling of the bronze me- morial group of the Chicago massacre of 1812; at. Chicago in *1803.-and the address at the opening of the Field Co- lumbian Museum at Chicago in 1894, which was an historical and descriptive account. Since then he has made a number of addresses on different occa- sions and in different places. Especi- ally noteworthy was the one delivered at the dinner given to Joseph Choate by the Chicago Bar Association last Winter. Mr. Mason was independent in politics. ——__.§94——_____. An Editorial Estimate of Wir. Mason. [Waterbury American.] There are some men about whom, for those who know them, it is difficult to speak with discrimination, with a due sense of measure and_ proportion. These possess that first of all gifts, the gift of charm—the quality which Mat- thew Arnold tells us distinguishes true poetry from giood verse. This quality baffles analysis in personality as in poetry, suggesting that closeness of tie between personality and poetry called genius. Such a man of personal charm was the late Edward G. Mason of Chicago. To those who felt the spell it is not given to tell the secret. They appre- ciated his many rare qualities, rare in themselves and rarer in combination; his culture, his literary taste, his love of the past and its study, his love of travel, his sense of humor, his good comradeship, his enjoyment of a good story and his own skill as a story teller, his strong common sense, his business ability, his ability in his own profession, the law. He was a man of yesterday and a man of to-day, touching at once tradition and action, a perfect type of that much abused phrase, “a man of the world,” yet finding his chief delight and inspiration in his own home. Through and above all was an abound- ing youthfulness of spirit: This made him, though almost 60. still seem under 40, and gave him that freshness of noble enthusiasm which keeps pace un- abated with adding years and defies age. The place he filled in the city of his residence was many-sided and import- ant, as a man of affairs in that center of large interests, and as a man of cul- ture doing all that was in him to con- serve its ‘higher citizenship.in its Lit- erary Club, its Historical Society (of which he was President), its most im- portant library (of which he was an active trustee), and in its University Club. Here, indeed, he found his most con- genial companionships, for to his col- lege days his life was constantly hark- ing back. Yale had never a more loyal son nor one who has placed his alma mater under greater obligations for per- sonal service rendered, often at extreme inconvenience. As a member of the Corporation he was always present at the meetings, and he gave to the Uni- versity and its affairs the same watch- ful care and sound business advice as to his most important clients. WEEKLY 1238 New Haven Country Club. The building of the New Haven Country Club on the east side of Lake Whitney is nearing completion and in all probability will be finished about the middle of January. The building is a gabled cottage builded of sheathed pine. The assembly room is of good dimen- sions and the floor is laid with an eye to dancing. The house will be fitted with lockers for ladies and gentlemen and otherwise well appointed. The suspen- sion bridge connecting the Club House with the road on the West side of the lake is more than half finished. 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