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Society Wednesday evening, and a
reception Thursday afternoon by Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harper, at their
residence, corner of Fifty-ninth street and
Lexington avenue. President Harper is an
Ohio man, and was formerly
connected with Muskingum College, at New
Concord. His wife is also
a Buckeye, and when a girl lived in
Mansfield. She is the daughter of the
Rev. David Paul, who was the pastor of
the Mansfield United Presbyterian
Church from 1858 until 1864, when he
resigned to accept the presidency of
the Muskingum college.
The American Political Science
Association and the American Eco-
nomic Association held their annual
meetings at the same time, in the
halls of the Chicago University
buildings.
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING.
Apropos of the need for a building for
the Ohio State Archaeological
and Historical Society, we note with
much interest and not a little envy
the announcement that the New York
Historical Society is erecting a
building for its future home on
Seventy-sixth Street, opposite Central
Park, New York. The site of the building
was bought in June, 1891, at a
cost of $300,000. Some difficulty was
experienced in raising the additional
money necessary to begin the work of the
construction. Dean Hoffman,
father of the present president of the
society, was the leader and director
of this undertaking. He induced several
prominent New Yorkers-among
them Archer M. Huntington, Miss Matilda
Wolf Bruce, J. P. Morgan,
F. Robert Schell, the late John Alsop
King, Cornelius and George W.
Vanderbilt-to contribute large amounts.
The building committee was appointed in
June, 1901, to receive and
report upon plans for the proposed
building. This committee decided to
erect the central portion, 135 x 115
feet, on the lines of American colonial
architecture, from the plans of Messrs.
York & Sawyer, at an estimated
cost of $400,000. The cornerstone was
laid by ex-Mayor Seth Low,
November 17, 1903. The work has been
going on with more or less inter-
ruption, but it is expected that the
building will be completed as far as the
first story this spring. The building
when completed will be the finest
of its kind in the country. It will be
of pink Milford granite, three stories
high, affording ample shelf space for
nearly 500,000 volumes and several
special rooms for exhibits of various
sorts, and will contain an auditorium
on the main floor, capable of seating
400 persons, a lecture room, reception,
lounging and committee rooms. On the
second floor will be a large
museum, two large lecture galleries and
a reading room. The plan of this
central portion of the building is so
drawn that at some future time exten-
sive wings of the same general style of
architecture may be added.
The New York Historical Society was
founded on November 20,
1804, on which date Egbert Benson, De
Witt Clinton, Rev. Dr. William
Linn, Rev. Dr. John N. Abeel, Rev. Dr.
John M. Mason, Dr. David Hoo--