International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume 1: Philosophy and Metaphysics
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International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume 1: Philosophy and Metaphysics
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In view of the fact that the men who will make the addresses
should not be expected to bear all the expense of their
attendance at the Congress, it seems advisable that the
authorities of the Fair should provide for the expenses
necessarily incurred in the journey, as well as pay a small
honorarium for the addresses. The Committee suggest,
therefore, that each American invited be offered $100 for
his traveling expenses and each European $400. In addition
to this that each receive $150 as an honorarium. Assuming
that one half of those invited to deliver addresses will be
Americans and one half Europeans, this arrangement will
involve the expenditure of $136,000. This estimate will be
reduced if the same person prepares more than one address.
It will also be reduced if more than half of the speakers
are Americans, and increased in the opposite case.
As the Committee is not advised of the amount which the
management of the Exposition may appropriate for the purpose
of the Congress, it cannot, at present, enter further into
details of adjustment, but it records its opinion that the
sum suggested is the least by which the ends sought to be
attained by the Congress can be accomplished. To this must
be added the expenses of administration and publication.
All addresses paid for by the Congress should be regarded as
its property, and be printed and published together, thus
constituting a comprehensive work exhibiting the unity,
progress, and present state of knowledge.
This plan does not preclude the delivery of more than one
address by a single scholar. The directors of the Exposition
may sometimes find it advisable to ask the same scholar to
deliver two addresses, possibly even three.
The Committee recommends that full liberty be allowed to
each section of the Congress in arranging the general
character and programme of its discussions within the field
proposed.
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