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Meanwhile a motion was made and carried, to the effect that the Executive Committee be requested to appoint a Committee on Membership as soon as possible, for the purpose of making known the existence and objects of the society and enrolling members.
In reply to the question whether the new organization would issue any publications, and by whom they would be issued, it was stated that, in the opinion of the Committee on Organization, it was deemed advisable not to create a Publication Committee as yet, but to leave that matter to the Executive Committee in accordance with the constitution. Moreover, the matter of pub- lications depends largely on the extent of funds available for that purpose, and this depends in turn on the membership of the organization. Consequently this entire subj^t was left in abey- ance.
At this stage of the meeting the Committee on nominations had returned with the following report:
For President Lester F. Ward, of Washington, D. C.
For First Vice-PresidentProfessor William G. Sumner, of Yale Uni- versity.
For Second Vice-President Professor Franklin H. Giddings, of Colum- bia University.
For Secretary and Treasurer Professor C. W. A. Veditz, of the George Washington University.
Members of the Executive Committee for three years : Professors E. A. Ross, of the University of Nebraska, and W. F. Willcox, of Cornell University ; for two years : Professors Albion W. Small, of the University of Chicago, and Samuel M. Lindsay, of the University of Pennsylvania ; for one year: Professors D. C. Wells, of Dartmouth College, and William Davenport, of Hamilton College.
Professor Giddings moved the acceptance of that part of this report which concerned the office of president. He took occasion to remark that nothing which he had ever done gave him so keen a sense of justice and fitness as he enjoyed in moving that Dr. Ward be made the first president of the American Sociological Society. Many years ago, when even among educated people the name of sociology was not merely discredited, but almost entirely unknown, Dr. Ward was already actively engaged in
