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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.
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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.
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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
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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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