Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1950

• DOI: 10.1177/000271625127400130
• Date: 01 March 1951
• Published date: 01 March 1951
• Subject Matter: Articles

206

Report

of

the

Board

of

Directors

to

the

Members

of

the

American

Academy

of

Political

and

Social

Science

for

the

Year

1950

HE

year

1950

was

one

of

continued

Tactivities

and

growth

for

The

Acad-

emy.

We

now

feel

quite

well

settled

in

our

new

quarters

which

were

acquired

over

two

years

ago.

MEETINGS

On

April

14

and

15,

1950

The

Acad-

emy

held

its

Fifty-fourth

Annual

Meet-

ing.

The.

subject

chosen

was

&dquo;Point

Four:

Too

Much

or

Too

Little?&dquo;

As

usual,

the

proceedings

of

the

meeting

appeared

later

as

the

July

1950

issue

of

THE

ANNALS,

with

the

title

&dquo;Formulat-

ing

a

Point

Four

Program.&dquo;

The

meet-

ing

itself

was

one

in

which

the

interest

of

the

audience

was

particularly

close

and

the

quality

of

the

attendance

was

very

high.

PUBLICATIONS

For

several

years

past

we

have

called

attention

to

the

growth

in

costs

of

pub-

lication.

This

has

continued,

but

thus

far

we

have

been

able

to

maintain

the

size

of

THE

ANNALS

at

about

the

past

level.

With

our

growth

in

membership

we

are

printing

now

more

copies

than

ever

before,

which

of

course

adds

to

our

aggregate

costs.

In

addition,

we

have

been

compelled

to

pay

higher

charges

for

composition,

binding,

etc.

Several

volumes

issued

during

the

last

few

years

are

now

entirely

out

of

stock,

since

it

is

quite

impossible

to

forecast

with

precision

the

number

that

will

be

sold.

We

know,

of

course,

how

many

are

to

go

to

members,

but

in

addition

we

fre-

quently

sell

several

thousand

copies

to

miscellaneous

purchasers.

Quantities

ranging

from

a

single

copy

to

much

larger

numbers,

particularly

for

use

in

college

and

university

classes,

are

sold.

It

is

interesting

to

notice

that

among

the

orders

recieved

are

many

for

volumes

which

appeared

many

years

ago.

The

issues

of

THE

ANNALS

during

1950

were

as

follows:

January

Military

Government

March

Aiding

Underdeveloped

Areas

Abroad

May

Gambling

July

Formulating

a

Point

Four

Pro-

gram

September

Moscow’s

European

Satellites

November

Toward

Family

Stability

MEMBERSHIP

’

During

1950

there

were

enrolled

3,538

new

members,

which

was

almost

as

many

as

were

enrolled

in

1949,

when

the

number

was

3,549.

There

are,

of

course,

each

year

a

number

of

losses,

but

on

December

31,

1950

our

member-

ship

was

16,076,

which

compares

with

15,249

at

the

end

of

1949-a

net

gain

of

827.

FINANCES

The

report

of

our

Treasurer

will

be

presented

at

this

meeting.

As

we

ob-

served

last

year,

we

have

been

able

thus

far

to

avoid

any

increase

in

our

dues.

To

this

there

is

one

single

exception

that

we

now

charge

$10.00

per

year

instead

of

the

former

$7.50

per

year

in

case

a

member

desires

cloth

bound

copies.

In-

stead

of

raising

the

dues

for

members

who

receive

paper

bound

copies,

we

have

maintained

our

former

charge

and

have

actually

reduced

the

charge

to

members

in

other

countries

than

the

United

States.

This

step

was

taken

because

of