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Herman V. Ames, elected to this Society in 1909, professor of American constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania and author on the institutional and political history of the colonial period, died February 7, 1935.
...under the leadership of our efficient President, Herman V. Ames, '88, have done some of the best campaign work that our chapter has ever seen.
Seventeen universities were represented at the tenth annual convention of the Association of American Universities, held at Cornell on Thursday and Friday of last week. Only one member of the association, Clark University, was not represented. The presidents of nine—Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and Yale—were present, and the eight others were represented as follows: California, Professor George M. Stratton; Catholic University of America, the Rev. Edward Aloysius Pace and Professor George Melville Boiling; Columbia, Professors Munroe Smith and William Henry Carpenter; Johns Hopkins, Professor J. Mark Baldwin; Stanford, Professor Oliver Peebles Jenkins and Mr. George Edward Crothers Pennsylvania, Professor Herman V. Ames; Princeton, Professors Andrew F. West, Harry B. Fine and William F. Magie; Virginia, Professor James Morris Page.
The first comprehensive list of proposed amendments was made possible in 1897 by the American Historical Association ... The list, with extensive discussion and detail classifying the many types of proposals, was prepared by Herman Vandenburg Ames. The preface to Proposed Amendments of the Constitution of the United States during the First Century of its History states he received the Justin Winsor prize of $100 for his efforts, awarded by a committee of the association ... Dr. Ames did future scholars an invaluable service by personally visiting offices and officials and meticulously recording details relevant on virtually every proposal.
He asked Herman V. Ames, Chairman of the AHA's public Archives Commission, to attend 'and lay before the committee whatever there has been in the practice or experience of states that deserves attention by persons who are planning a national building.' Herman Ames was planning to attend the 125th anniversary of the University of Pittsburgh on February 28 and 29; to attend the hearing, he would have to go directly to Washington without returning home. Ames nevertheless was willing to inconvenience himself if Jameson thought that his presence could not be spared. Jameson told Ames that 'under the circumstances...it would be unreasonable to ask you to be here.'
Dr. H. Lamar Crosby was elected dean of the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania at a meeting of the trustees today. He succeeds Dr. Herman V. Ames, who has resigned after serving for 21 years.(subscription required)
Funeral services for Dr. Herman V. Ames, former dean of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania, will be conducted In the Second Presbyterian Church, 21st and Walnut sts at 5 o'clock this afternoon by Rev. Dr. Alexander MacColl, pastor of the church. The following will be honorary pallbearers: Thomas S. Gates, Josiah H. Pennlman, H. Lamar Crosby, Edward P. Cheyney, St. George L. Bloussat, Arthur C. Howland. Paul H. Minyior, Roland S. Morris, Frederick H. Safiora, Albert E. McKlnley, Emory R. Johnson, Conyers Read, William E. Lingelbach, Roy F. Nichols, Cheesman A. Herrick, Edward W. Mumford, Albert Hand, Lewis, M. Stevens, Walter I. Cooper, Walter B. Mclnnes and Julian Boyd.(subscription required)
Established in 1903 as an administrative unit of the Pennsylvania State Library, the State Archives was combined with the Pennsylvania Historical Commission in 1945 to form the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
A record of the addresses made at the memorial meeting, held at the University of Pennsylvania on May 7, 1935, together with letters and resolutions on the death of Dr. Herman Vandenburg Ames, late Professor of American Constitutional History at the university. The memorial closes with 'A Fragment of Autobiography Sent to an Amherst Reunion.'
In 1951 a bequest by Ella E. Ames established an endowed Library Fund in memory of her brother, Dr. Herman V. Ames, Professor of American Constitutional History. The fund supports the acquisition of materials in American History, or American and European History as desired by the Department of History. The Ames Fund is critical in making possible to Penn scholars new materials in this field.
The first comprehensive list of proposed amendments was made possible in 1897 by the American Historical Association ... The list, with extensive discussion and detail classifying the many types of proposals, was prepared by Herman Vandenburg Ames. The preface to Proposed Amendments of the Constitution of the United States during the First Century of its History states he received the Justin Winsor prize of $100 for his efforts, awarded by a committee of the association ... Dr. Ames did future scholars an invaluable service by personally visiting offices and officials and meticulously recording details relevant on virtually every proposal.
Established in 1903 as an administrative unit of the Pennsylvania State Library, the State Archives was combined with the Pennsylvania Historical Commission in 1945 to form the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
