ANNUAL MEETING, NOVEMBER, 1918

    THE Annual Meeting of the Society was held at the Algonquin Club, 217 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, on Thursday, 21 November, 1918, at half past six o’clock in the evening, the President, Fred Norris Robinson, Ph.D., in the chair.

    The Records of the last Stated Meeting were approved.

    The Hon. James Parker Parmenter of Arlington was elected a Resident Member.

    The Annual Report of the Council was presented and read by the Rev. Dr. Charles Edwards Park:

    REPORT OF THE COUNCIL

    In such a period of abnormal intensity as the present, it is right and proper that many of the institutions of life should catch the prevailing contagion, and re-align their activities to meet the exigencies of the moment. It is equally desirable that a few of our institutions should resist, so far as possible, the confusing tendencies of the times, and should endeavor to perform their share of service by holding true to the purpose for which they were founded.

    Your Council reports with a certain degree of pride that the Colonial Society has not allowed itself to be thrown off its centre by the exceptional influences of the past year, but has endeavored to carry on consistently the quiet purpose for which it exists, and has thereby rendered its most valuable immediate service to our deeply perturbed day and generation.

    The usual five stated meetings have been held, four of them in the house of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, to whom we again acknowledge our debt of gratitude. The April meeting, which was by far the best attended of the year, was held at the home of our Treasurer, Mr. Edes.

    Papers of unusual substance and interest have been presented at these meetings, and have been incorporated in the published Transactions of the Society.

    The Editor reports that the last published volume is Volume XVIII. Volume XIX, which contains the Transactions from November, 1916, to November, 1917, both included, is now going through the press, and will be distributed shortly. Volume XX, also a volume of Transactions, has advanced to page 252, containing the meetings up to and including April, 1918. Thus the Transactions are all in plate to the present moment. Volumes XV and XVI, containing the Corporation Records of Harvard College down to 1750, are well advanced, and will, it is hoped, be completed next year. An index to volumes I-XX has been authorized by the Council, and is in course of preparation.

    The following gentlemen have been elected to Resident Membership in the Society during the year:

    • Henry Cabot Lodge,
    • William Crowninshield Endicott,
    • George Russell Agassiz,
    • Frederick Cheever Shattuck;

    and to Corresponding Membership:

    • Frederic Adrian Delano,
    • Otis Grant Hammond.

    Your Council reports with profound sorrow the loss by death of three members of the Society:

    Edward Hale, whose brave and gentle spirit greeted life with joy, and death with confidence. He was admired by all for the transparent purity of his nature; and beloved by all for the sympathy which made him mourn for the sorrows of others, while he smiled at his own.

    Marcus Perrin Knowlton, whose genial simplicity as a man accentuated his greatness as a jurist; and who by his wisdom and rectitude has made our Massachusetts jurisprudence his own noblest memorial.

    Andrew Dickson White, whose exceptional diversities of gifts were controlled by one and the same spirit of generous unstinted service, and who will long be remembered as one of the soundest historians, the wisest diplomats, and the foremost educators that our country has produced.

    The Treasurer submitted his Annual Report:

    REPORT OF THE TREASURER

    In compliance with the requirements of the By-Laws, the Treasurer submits his Annual Report for the year ending 18 November, 1918.

    CASH ACCOUNT

    RECEIPTS

    Balance, 19 November, 1917

    $121.11

    Admission Fees

    $40.00

    Annual Assessments

    590.00

    Sales of the Society’s Publications

    16.80

    Sales of the Society’s paper

    14.98

    Contributions from two members

    15.00

    Editor’s Salary Fund, subscriptions

    1,100.00

    Interest

    4,198.02

    Mortgages, discharged or assigned

    10,550.00

    Provident Institution for Savings, withdrawn for investment

    150.00

    16,674.80

    $16,795.91

    DISBURSEMENTS

    The University Press

    $1,079.02

    A. W. Elson & Co., photogravure

    181.00

    Folsom Engraving Company

    28.00

    John Ogden, engraving

    52.10

    Bigelow, Kennard & Co., plate printing

    5.75

    Mary A. Tenney, indexing

    100.00

    Andrew Stewart, auditing

    20.00

    Clerk hire

    141.95

    Library Bureau, index cards

    18.25

    Albert Matthews, salary as Editor of Publications . . .

    1,000.00

    American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fuel, light and janitor service

    20.00

    Boston Storage Warehouse Company

    24.00

    J. Franklin Jameson, annual subscription toward the Bibliography of American Historical Writings . . .

    50.00

    Miscellaneous incidentals

    686.76

    Mortgages on improved real estate in Boston

    11,750.00

    Interest in adjustment

    58.05

    Deposited in the Provident Institution for Savings

    100.00

    Henry H. Edes, demand loan without interest

    700.00

    George V. Leverett’s Estate, demand loan without interest

    750.00

    16,764.88

    Balance on deposit in State Street Trust Company, 18 November, 1918

    31.03

    $16,795.91

    The Funds of the Society are invested as follows:

    $75,950.00

    in First Mortgages, payable in gold coin, on improved property in Greater Boston

    200.00

    on deposit in the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston

    $76,150.00

    TRIAL BALANCE

    DEBITS

    Cash

    $31.03

    Mortgages

    $75,950.00

    Provident Institution for Savings

    200.00

    76,150.00

    $76,181.03

    CREDITS

    Income

    $31.03

    Editor’s Salary Fund

    $300.00

    Publication Fund

    10,000.00

    Benjamin Apthorp Gould Memorial Fund

    10,000.00

    Edward Wheelwright Fund

    20,000.00

    Robert Charles Billings Fund

    10,000.00

    Robert Noxon Toppan Fund

    5,000.00

    Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr. Fund

    3,000.00

    Andrew McFarland Davis Fund

    2,000.00

    William Watson Fund

    1,000.00

    Horace Everett Ware Fund

    570.00

    General Fund

    14,280.00

    76,150.00

    76,181.03

    Henry H. Edes

    Treasurer

    Boston, 18 November, 1918

    REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE

    The undersigned, a Committee617 appointed to examine the Accounts of the Treasurer for the year ending 18 November, 1918, have attended to their duty and report, that they find the accounts correctly kept and properly vouched, and that proper evidence of the investments and of the balance of cash on hand has been shown to them.

    This Report is based on the examination of Andrew Stewart, Certified Public Accountant.

    William C. Endicott

    Committee

    Boston, 19 November, 1918

    The several Reports were accepted and referred to the Committee of Publication.

    On behalf of the Committee appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing year, Mr. Frederick Jackson Turner presented the following candidates; and, a ballot having been taken, these gentlemen were unanimously elected.

    president

    FRED NORRIS ROBINSON

    vice-presidents

    ANDREW McFARLAND DAVIS

    ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG

    recording Secretary

    HENRY WINCHESTER CUNNINGHAM

    corresponding seoretary

    CHARLES EDWARDS PARK

    treasurer

    HENRY HERBERT EDES

    registrar

    ALFRED JOHNSON

    member of the counoil for three years

    MARK ANTONY DEWOLFE HOWE

    After the meeting was dissolved, dinner was served. The guests of the Society were the Rev. Dr. Frederick John Foakes-Jackson, the Rev. Reuben Kidner, and Messrs. Edwin Hale Abbot, Alfred Lawrence Aiken, George Hubbard Blakeslee, Hermon Carey Bumpus, William Bradford Homer Dowse, John Henry Edmonds, Lucilius Alonzo Emery, Morris Gray, Paul Henry Hanus, Edward Mussey Hartwell, Albert Andrew Howard, Edward Sylvester Morse, James Parker Parmenter, Henry Goddard Pickering, Arthur Stanwood Pier, Fitz-Henry Smith, Jr., Harry Walter Tyler, Arthur Gordon Webster, John Tyler Wheelwright, and Samuel Williston. The President presided.