Linguists

There is an American Philological Society. There is an American Oriental Society. There are the American Anthropological and the Modern Language Societies.

These, said language scholars at various U. S. colleges, are not enough. They have "shown hospitality to linguistics; they have patiently listened to our papers and generously printed them. . . . Nevertheless ... we do not meet ... No one can tell how much encouragement and inspiration is thereby lost."

So the language scholars foregathered at the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. They shut themselves in a room, talked and talked, and all came out members of the Linguistic Society of America. Professor Hermann Collitz of Johns Hopkins is President; Carl D. Buck of Chicago is Vice President; Roland G. Kent of Pennsylvania is Secretary and also Treasurer.