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,...
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