THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
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DOI：
10.1080/00029890.1928.11986817
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发表时间：
1917-03
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
W D. Cairns
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作者：
W D. Cairns
美国数学协会。 3希望新组织能够更有效地推进这些目标，一方面与各个组织良好的二级协会合作，另一方面与美国数学会在其选定的科学研究领域合作，但要小心不要侵犯这两个领域。会议随后决定成立一个全体委员会，逐节审议章程和细则，其暂定草案已通过 已经提前准备好了。经过三个小时的耐心和艰苦的审议，除了新组织的名称外，所有悬而未决的问题都得到了解决。这由一个委员会从提出的十八种不同变体中进行选择，并在第二天早上报告。还授权一个委员会协助临时秘书消除章程和附则中任何口头上的不一致或不准确之处。委员会最终选定的名称被无票反对地通过，因为它比任何其他建议都包含更多的赞成意见和更少的反对意见。
THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. 3 hope that the new organization might carr~ forward these aims with still greater effectiveness, cooperatmg, on the one hand, with the various well-organized secondary associations, and, on the other hand, with the American Mathematical Society in its chosen field of scientific research, but being careful to encroach upon neither of these fields.The meeting was then resolved into a committee of the whole for the consideration, section by section, of a constitution and by-laws, tentative drafts of which had been prepared in advance. After three hours of patient and painstaking deliberation, all mooted questions were settled except the name of the new organization. This was left to a committee to choose from the eighteen different variations which had been proposed and to report the following morning. A committee was also delegated to assist the temporary secretary in smoothing out any verbal inconsistencies or inaccuracies in the constitution and by-laws. The name finally chosen by the committee was adopted without a dissenting vote, as embodying more favorable points and fewer objections than any other that had been suggested.