The Whitney Memorial Meeting/Appendix II

 

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DETAILED PROGEAM OF THE EXERCISES OF THE JOINT AND OF THE SPECIAL SESSIONS OF THE FIRST AMERICAN CONGRESS OF PHILOLOGISTS.

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JOINT MEETING

Of the American Oriental Society, American Philological Association, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Modern Language Association of America, American Dialect Society, Spelling Reform Association, and the Archæological Institute of America, at

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,

December 27-29, 1894.

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JOINT SESSIONS.

Opening Session.

Thursday, December 27, at 12 m.

Address by Mr. C. C. Harrison, Acting Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, introducing the Presiding Officer of the Meeting, Professor A. Marshall Elliott, of the Johns Hopkins University, President of the Modern Language Association of America. Address of Welcome by Dr. Horace Howard Furness, Philadelphia.

Second Joint Session.

Friday, December 28, at 10 a. m.

Presiding Officer of the Meeting, Prof. John Henry Wright, of Harvard University, President of the American Philological Association.

1. Dr. J. P. Peters, New York, and Prof. H. V. Hilprecht, University of Philadelphia: The last results of the Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania.
2. Prof. William W. Goodwin, Harvard University: The Athenian γραφὴ παρανόμον and the American doctrine of constitutional law.
3. Prof. Minton Warren, Johns Hopkins University: The contribution of the Latin inscriptions to the study of the Latin language and literature.
4. Prof. A. V. Williams Jackson, Columbia College: Cyrus's dream of the winged figure of Darius in Herodotus.
5. Prof. Hermann Collitz, Bryn Mawr College: Some Modern German etymologies.
6. Prof. Maurice Bloomfield, Johns Hopkins University: On Professor Streitberg's theory as to the origin of certain long Indo-European vowels.
7. Prof. Federico Halbherr, University of Rome: Explorations in Krete for the Archæological Institute (read by Professor Frothingham).
8. Prof. Edward S. Sheldon, Harvard University: The work of the American Dialect Society, 1889-1894.

Third Joint Session.

Friday, December 28, at 8 p. m.

MEMORIAL MEETING IN HONOR OF WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY.

Presiding Officer of the Meeting, President Daniel Coit Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, President of the American Oriental Society.

1. Reading of letters from foreign scholars.
2. Memorial Address by Prof. Charles E. Lanman, Harvard University.
3. Whitney's influence on the study of modern languages and on lexicography; by Prof. Francis A. March, Lafayette College.
4. Whitney's influence on students of classical philology; by Prof.Bernadotte Perrin, Yale University.
5. Whitney's personality; by Prof. J. Irving Manatt, Brown University.
6. Address by Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward, New York.
7. Concluding address by President Daniel Coit Gilman.

SPECIAL SESSIONS.

AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY.

(Organized 1842.)

Daniel C. Gilman, President, Johns Hopkins University.

Edward D. Perry, Corresponding Secretary, Columbia College.

First Special Session.

Thursday, December 27, at 3 p. m.

1. Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., University of Pennsylvania: Note on the term Mušannitu.

2. Prof. Maurice Bloomfield, Johns Hopkins University: Two problems in Sanskrit grammar.

3. Prof. G. A. Barton, Bryn Mawr College: Some notes on the Semitic Ishtar-cult.

4. Mr. Talcott Williams, The Press, Philadelphia: Some unpublished Arabic inscriptions, in Morocco and elsewhere.

5. Prof. E. Washburn Hopkins, Bryn Mawr College: Notes on Dyāus, Varuṇa, and Viṣṇu.

6. Mr. Stewart Culin, University of Pennsylvania: The origin of games and divination in Eastern Asia.

Second Special Session.

Friday, December 28, at 2:30 p. m.

7. Dr. Theodore F. Wright, Cambridge, Mass.: Note on the Julian inscription described by Dr. Isaac H. Hall, at the meeting of March, 1894.

8. Dr. Hanns Oertel, Yale University: The Agnihotra-section of the Jāiminīya-brāhmaṇa.

9. Prof. D. B. Macdonald, Hartford Theological Seminary: Description of the recent Būlāq edition of the Jamhara Ash‘ār al-‘Arab of Abū Zayd al-Qurashī.

10. Dr. Cyrus Adler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Some Hebrew MSS. from Egypt.

11. Prof. H. Hyvernat, Catholic University of America: On some Coptic manuscripts from Egypt. (Presented by Dr. Cyrus Adler.)

12. Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, U. S. National Museum, Washington: The emphatic prefix le in Hebrew.

13. Prof. Edwin W. Fay, Washington and Lee University: Agni Mātariçvan and related divinities.

14. Prof. A. V. W. Jackson, Columbia College: The Sanskrit root manth-math in Avestan.

15. Rev. F. P. Ramsay, Augusta, Ky.: Psalm xxiii.: an essay on Hebrew verse.

16. Prof. G. A. Barton, Bryn Mawr College: A note on the god Mut.

Third Special Session.

Saturday, December 29, at 10 a. m.

17. Dr. Theodore P. Wright, Cambridge, Mass.: Report of excavations at Jerusalem by the Palestine Exploration Fund.

18. Prof. G. A. Barton, Bryn Mawr College: Was Ilu a distinct deity in Babylonia?

19. Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., University of Pennsylvania: A fragment of the Babylonian Etana-legend.

20. Prof. E. Washburn Hopkins, Bryn Mawr College: The vocabulary of the eighth Maṇḍala of the Rig-veda. (Read by title.)

21. Prof. E. Washburn Hopkins, Bryn Mawr College: The Bhārats and the Bhāratas.

22. Dr. Hanns Oertel, Yale University: An emendation of Sāyaṇa on SB. i. 3. 2.

23. Prof. D. B. Macdonald, Hartford Theological Seminary: On a complete verbal index to the Fiqh al-Luqha of ath-Tha‘ālibī. (Read by title.)

24 and 25. Prof. M. Bloomfield and Prof. A. V. Williams Jackson presented papers (numbered 6 and 4) at the Joint Session of Friday morning.

AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

(Organized 1869.)

John Henry Wright, President, Harvard University.

Herbert Weir Smyth, Secretary, Bryn Mawr College.

First Special Session.

Thursday, December 27, at 2:35 p. m.

1. Dr. Mortimer Lamson Earle, Barnard College: Sophocles's Trachiniæ, 26-48: a study in interpretation.

2. Prof. Louis Bevier, Jr., Rutgers College: The Delphian hymns and the pronunciation of the Greek vowels.

3. Prof. Alfred Gudemann, University of Pennsylvania: Plutarch as a philologist.

4. Prof. Edwin W. Fay, Washington and Lee University: Aryan tr₂° = Greek πλ° = Latin cl°; Aryan dr₂° = Greek βλ° = Latin gl°.

5. Prof. Charles R. Lanman, Harvard University: Reflected meanings; a point in Semantics.

6. Prof. Karl P. Harrington, University of North Carolina: Notes on the diction of the Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii.

7. Prof. W. A. Lamberton, University of Pennsylvania: Notes on Thucydides.

8. Dr. Arthur Fairbanks, Yale University: Local cults in Homer.

9. Dr. Mitchell Carroll, Johns Hopkins University: Aristotle on the faults of poetry; or Poetics xxv. in the light of the Homeric scholia.

10. Dr. Charles Knapp, Barnard College: Notes on Horace.

Second Special Session.

Friday, December 28, at 2:30 p. m.

11. Prof. Morton W. Easton, University of Pennsylvania: Remarks upon Gower's Confessio Amantis chiefly with reference to the text.

12. Mr. William C. Lawton, Philadelphia: A national form of verse the natural unit for the thought.

13. Prof. Frank L. Van Cleef, Cornell University: Confusion of δέκα and τέσσαρες in Thucydides.

14. Dr. B. Newhall, Brown University: Women's speech in classical literature.

15. Prof. E. G. Sihler, University of the City of New York: St. Paul and the Lex lulia de vi.

16. Dr. James M. Paton, Cambridge, Mass.: Some Spartan families under the Empire.

17. Prof. H. W. Magoun, Oberlin College: Pliny's Laurentine villa.

18. Prof. John Williams White, Harvard University: The pre-Themistoclean wall at Athens.

19. Prof. Hermann Collitz, Bryn Mawr College: The etymology of ἄρα and of μάψ.

Third Special Session.

Saturday, December 29, at 9.45 a. m.

20. Prof. J. Irving Manatt, Brown University: The literary evidence of Dörpfeld's Enneakrounos.

21. Prof. Benjamin I. Wheeler, Cornell University: The Greek duals in ε.

22. Prof. John Henry Wright, Harvard University: A note on Alexander Polyhistor (Eusebius, Chron. I. 15, 16).

23. Prof. Herbert Weir Smyth, Bryn Mawr College: On Greek tragic anapæsts.

24. Prof. A. V. Williams Jackson, Columbia College: Two ancient Persian names in Greek, Ἀρταύκτης and Φαιδύμη.

25. Dr. Mortimer Lamson Earle, Barnard College: Some remarks on the moods of will in Greek.

26. Prof. Edwin W. Fay, Washington and Lee University: Aryan gn = Latin mn.

27. Prof. Carl Darling Buck, University of Chicago: The passive in Oscan-Umbrian.

28. Prof. W. J. Battle, University of Texas: Magical curses written on lead tablets.

29. Dr. Charles Knapp, Barnard College: Latin lexicographical notes. 30 and 31. Prof. W. W. Goodwin and Prof. M. Warren presented papers (numbered 2 and 3) at the Joint Session of Friday morning.

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SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AXD EXEGESIS.

(Organized 1880.)

J. Henry Thayer, President, Harvard University.

David G. Lyon, Corresponding Secretary, Harvard University.

First Special Session.

Thursday, December 27, at 2:30 p. m.

1. Prof. George A. Barton, Bryn Mawr College: On the interpretation of שבט ספר, Judges v. 14.

2. Dr. Isaac H. Hall, Metropolitan Museum, New York: On the new Syriac Gospels.

3. Prof. Lewis B. Paton, Hartford Theological Seminary: Did Amos approve the calf-worship at Bethel?

5. Dr. T. F. Wright, New Church School, Cambridge, Mass.: The Songs of Degrees.

6. Prof. J. Henry Thayer, Harvard University: σὺ εἶπας, σὺ λέγεις, in the answers of Jesus.

Second Special Session.

Friday, December 28, at 2:40 p. m.

6. Rev. Benjamin W. Bacon, Oswego, N. Y.: The displacement of John xiv.

7. Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., University of Pennsylvania: Hebrew proper names compounded with יה and in יהו.

8. Prof. Paul Haupt, Johns Hopkins University: On 2 Samuel i 23.

9. Rev. William H. Cobb, Boston: Julius Ley on Isaiah xl.-lxvi.

10. Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, Colgate University: Μαρανtαθα, 1 Cor. xvi. 22. 11. Prof. M. S. Terry, Garrett Biblical Institute: The scope aud plan of the Apocalypse of John.

Third Special Session.

Saturday, December 29, at 10:15 a. m.

12. Prof. George F. Moore, Andover Theological Seminary: 1 Kings vii. 46 and the question of Succoth (read by Professor Lyon).

13. Rev. W. Scott Watson, Guttenberg, N. J.: Two Samaritan manuscripts of portions of the Pentateuch (read in abstract).

14. Prof. J. P. Peters and Prof. H. V. Hilprecht presented a paper (numbered 1) at the Joint Session of Friday morning.

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THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.

(Organized 1883.)

A. Marshall Elliott, President, Johns Hopkins University.

James W. Bright, Secretary, Johns Hopkins University.

First Regular Session.

Thursday, December 27, at 3 p. m.

1. Prof. W. T. Hewett, Cornell University: The life and works of Prof. Matthias de Vries.

2. Prof. K. Francke, Harvard University: The relation of early German romanticism to the classic ideal.

3. Prof. George Lyman Kittredge, Harvard University: The Friar's Lantern.

4. Prof. Edward H. Magill, Swarthmore College: The new method in Modern Language study.

Second Regular Session.

Friday, December 28, at 3 p. m.

5. Prof. Frederic Spencer, University of North Wales, Bangor, Wales: On the reform of methods in teaching the Modern Languages, together with an experiment in the teaching of German.

6. Prof. Alex Melville Bell, Washington, D. C.: A note on syllabic consonants.

7. Prof. Henry E. Lang, Yale University: The metres employed by the earliest Portuguese lyric school.

8. Dr. J. Hendren Gorrell, Wake Forest College, N. C.: Indirect discourse in Anglo-Saxon.

9. Prof. 0. F. Emerson, Cornell University: A parallel between the Middle English poem Patience and one of the pseudo-Tertullian poems.

Third Regular Session.

Saturday, December 29, at 10 a. m.

10. Mr. W. Henry Schofield, Harvard University: Elizabeth Elstob: an Anglo-Saxon scholar nearly two centuries ago, with her Plea for Learning in Women.

11. Dr. C. C. Marden, Johns Hopkins University: The Spanish dialect of Mexico City.

12. Prof. C. H. Ross, Agricultural and Mechanical College, Ala.: Henry Timrod and his poetry.

13. Prof. James T, Hatfield, Northwestern University: The poetry of Wilhelm Müller.

14. Dr. L. E. Menger, Johns Hopkins University: Early Romanticists in Italy.

Fourth Regular Session.

Saturday, December 29, at 3 p. m.

15. Dr. Edwin S. Lewis, Princeton University: On the development of inter- vocalic labials in the Romanic languages.

16. Dr. L. A. Rhoades, Cornell University: Notes on Goethe's Iphigenic.

17. Mr. Alex. W. Herdler, Princeton University: On the Slavonic languages.

18. Dr. Thomas A. Jenkins, Philadelphia: Old French equivalents of Latin substantives in -cus, -gus, -vus.

19. Prof. A. R. Hohlfeld, Vanderbilt University: Contributions to a bibliography of Racine (read by title).

20. Prof. Hermann Collitz presented a paper (numbered 5) at the Joint Session of Friday morning.

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AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY.

(Organized 1889.)

Edward S. Sheldon, President, Harvard University.

Eugene H. Babbitt, Secretary, Columbia College.

Prof. E. S. Sheldon, Harvard University, read a paper (numbered 8) at the Joint Session of Friday morning.

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SPELLING REFORM ASSOCIATION.

(Organized 1876.)

Francis A. March, President, Lafayette College.

Fred. A. Fernald, Corresponding Secretary, New York City.

Friday afternoon, December 28.

1. Opening remarks by President March: The movement for spelling reform.

2. Paper by H. L. Wayland, D.D., Editor of the Examiner: The obstacles to reform.

3. Remarks by James W. Walk, M. D., Commissioner of Charities and Correction, Philadelphia: The advantage of a reformed orthography to the children of the poor.

4. Remarks by Charles P. G. Scott, Ph. D., Editor of Worcester's Dictionary: The attitude of philologists toward the spelling reform.

5. Remarks by Patterson Du Bois, A. M., of Philadelphia.

6. Remarks by J. H. Allen, of Massachusetts.

7. Remarks by Mrs. E. B. Burns, of New York.

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ARCHÆOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA.

(Organized 1879.)

Seth Low, President, Columbia College. Harold N. Fowler, Corresponding Secretary, Western Reserve University.

First Special Session.

Friday afternoon, December 28.

1. Mrs. Sara Y. Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania: The antiquities from Koptos at the University of Pennsylvania.

2. Rev. W. C. Winslow, Boston, Mass.: The explorations at the temple of Queen Hatasu.

3. Mr. Talcott Williams, The Press, Philadelphia: Local Moorish architecture in North Morocco.

4. Prof. Frank B. Tarbell, University of Chicago: Retrograde inscriptions on Attic vases.

5. Prof. John Williams White, Harvard University: History and work of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

6. Prof. William R. Ware, Columbia College, N. Y.: The New American School of Architecture at Rome.

Second Special Session.

Saturday morning, December 29.

7. Prof. William H. Goodyear, Brooklyn Institute: A discovery of Greek horizontal curves in the Maison Carrée at Nîmes.

8. Rev. John P. Peters, New York: The excavations of the Babylonian expedition at the temple of Bel in Nippur.

9. Prof. Allan Marquand, Princeton University: A study in Greek architectural proportions.

10. Prof. Myron R. Sanford, Middlebury College: The new faun of the Quirinal.

11. Prof. W. C. Lawton, Philadelphia: Accretions to the Troy myth after Homer.

12. Mr. BarR Ferree, Brooklyn: Architecture of mediæval houses in France.

13 and 14. Prof. A. L. Frothingham, Jr., Princeton University: Byzantine influence upon Mediæval Italy. The ivory throne at Ravenna.

15. Mr. William Rankin, Jr., Princeton University: Some early Italian pictures in American galleries.,

16. Prof. Alfred Emerson, Cornell University: The archæology of Athenian politics in the fifth century b. c.

17. Prof. Federico Halbherr, University of Rome, presented a paper (numbered 7) at the Joint Session of Friday morning.