Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 50: 1919 Attendance in those years averaged 59, with a wide range, from 35 at Madison in 1900 that first venture into fresh woods, and pastures new - to 100 at Cambridge in the following summer. The meetings thus had most of the features familiar in an earlier day, though the personal record of regular attendance was certainly considerably lower, with such Shining exceptions as March, Wright, and Smyth. There was still much of the old ...
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Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 50: 1919 Attendance in those years averaged 59, with a wide range, from 35 at Madison in 1900 that first venture into fresh woods, and pastures new - to 100 at Cambridge in the following summer. The meetings thus had most of the features familiar in an earlier day, though the personal record of regular attendance was certainly considerably lower, with such Shining exceptions as March, Wright, and Smyth. There was still much of the old sense of a family reunion, enlivened by an excursion, as of yore. Thus the good old customs lasted on, and the smallness of the company, inter rupting its summer vacation, but still in a vacation Spirit, along with the ease of access to those we wished most to know, made these meetings more valuable on the'human Side than one would venture to claim for larger and more imposing assemblages then or now, in crowded December days. The membership, which fell just Short of 400 in 1894, had grown to 589 in 1904, the latter figure including 84 members of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, which had been organized in December, 1899, and afliliated with the parent Association by action taken at the Madison meeting of 1900. This establishment of a distinct section of the Association on the other coast must be accounted one of the most important events in the annals of this particular period; and if the relations of trunk and branch are necessarily rather distant, they have never lacked a certain Slow and measured circula tion. Not infrequently we have welcomed Pacific brethren in recent years, on the wing to or from classic lands, and always with mutual cordiality. They have at times read papers in our company, and our annual volume has contained no illiberal Share of contributions presented at their meetings across the continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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