The Funds of the Society are invested as follows:

$40,500.00 in First Mortgages, payable in gold coin, on improved property in

Greater Boston

70,541.25 in Bonds elsewhere described in this Report having a face value of

$80,000

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

$111,066.25

The investments of the Society yield an average annual income of upwards of 6%.

The bonds bought during the year are all of high grade, and many have been purchased at prices below par, so that at maturity our bond securities will furnish an addition of nearly $10,000 to the principal of the Society's endowment.

A Trial Balance of the accounts as of 16 November, 1921, is hereto annexed and made a part of this Report.

BOSTON, 21 November, 1921

HENRY H. EDES
Treasurer

REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE

The undersigned, a Committee appointed to examine the Accounts of the Treasurer for the year ending 16 November, 1921, 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 Stewart, Watts and Bollong, Certified Public Accountants.

JOHN ELIOT THAYER
JOHN LOWELL

Committee

BOSTON, 21 November, 1921

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. MORRIS GRAY presented the following list of candidates; and, a ballot having been taken, these gentlemen were unanimously elected:

PRESIDENT

FRED NORRIS ROBINSON

VICE-PRESIDENTS

ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG
GEORGE FOOT MOORE

RECORDING SECRETARY

HENRY WINCHESTER CUNNINGHAM

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

CHARLES EDWARDS PARK

TREASURER

HENRY HERBERT EDES

REGISTRAR

ALFRED JOHNSON

MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL FOR THREE YEARS

CHARLES LEMUEL NICHOLS

After the meeting was dissolved, dinner was served. The guests of the Society were Dr. Homer Gage, the Rev. Dr. Kirsopp Lake, the Rev. Abbot Peterson, and Messrs. George Pomeroy Anderson, Walter Austin, Francis Tiffany Bowles, Winslow Ware Churchill, Francis Lowell Coolidge, John Henry Edmonds, James Melville Hunnewell, William McDougall, George Andrew Reisner, Elihu Thomson, Harry Walter Tyler, and James Benjamin Wilbur. The PRESIDENT presided.

DECEMBER MEETING, 1921

ASTATED MEETING of the Society was held at the house

of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, No. 28 Newbury Street, Boston, on Thursday, 22 December, 1921, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the President, FRED NORRIS ROBINSON, Ph.D., in the chair.

The Records of the Annual Meeting in November were read and approved.

The CORRESPONDING SECRETARY reported that a letter had been received from Mr. WILBUR CORTEZ ABBOTT accepting Resident Membership.

Mr. GEORGE POMEROY ANDERSON of Boston was elected a Resident Member; and Mr. JAMES BENJAMIN WILBUR of Manchester, Vermont, a Corresponding Member. Mr. WILLIAM C. LANE spoke as follows:

A RELIGIOUS SOCIETY AT HARVARD COLLEGE, 1719 In January, 1909, I exhibited to the Society a little manuscript volume written out by Ebenezer Turell, of the Class of 1721, which contained "An account of a Society in Harvard College" organized in October, 1722. The "scheme of proposals" then drawn up shows that the object of the society was to afford an opportunity for debates, for "discourses of about twenty minutes" to be made at each monthly meeting, and for general conversation and comparing of notes. The members whose names have been preserved belonged to the classes of 1719, 1721, 1722, and 1723.1

The Library has lately received a sheet of manuscript, found in the J. Hammond Trumbull sale, and presented by Mr. M. B. Brainard of Hartford, Connecticut. This brings to view a society which had its beginning in 1719, an earlier date than anything which has been noted hitherto. It will be seen that this society was organized for 1 Our Publications, xii. 220, 227–231.