Publications of the Southern History Association , Vol. VII, No. 3 (May, 1903). In the first ten pages of this number the editor, Dr. Colyer Meriwether, prints a collection of letters which show what the Southern States are doing toward the collection of rosters of their men in the Confederate Army. It appears that the collection in South Carolina is fairly complete, though no steps have been taken toward publication; North Carolina as early as 1882 published four volumes, aggregating 2548 pages, but the work was carelessly done and in some cases deliberately falsified; Alabama has gone far toward getting its records in shape; and some attention has been given to the work by Mississippi; no report was received from Virginia and Missouri, but the other States make a very poor showing. The War Department has determined to take up the work of publishing these muster rolls so far as they can be furnished by the separate States, and letters have been addressed by the Department to the respective governors requesting their energetic co-operation. The work of collection must be done by the States.

The remainder of the number, except the reviews and notices, consists of documents: (1) The Duane Letters (continued); (2) A Southern Sulky Ride (concluded); (3) General Joseph Martin (continued); (4) Texas Revolutionary Sentiment (continued)—these documents consist mainly of the proceedings of public meetings and committees of safety during 1835, and exhibit the development of the revolutionary sentiment with the reasons therefor; (5) Early Quaker Records in Virginia (concluded).

At the meeting of the American Historical Association in December, 1901, a committee of Southern members was appointed to prepare a report on History Teaching in the South. Their report was published in the School Review, February, 1903, and in his review of it the editor of the Publications says: “It is to be regretted though that the committee did not openly frown on the weak presumption of a half dozen or so institutions in trying to give graduate courses and degrees. The Johns Hopkins alone, south of Mason and Dixon's line, is competent to do this.” As to the degrees, The Quarterly emphatically says amen; but if Dr. Meriwether means exactly what he says about graduate “courses,” The Quarterly begs the personal privilege of explaining that the University of Texas possesses both the competency and facilities for giving graduate history courses. The proof of this is the recognition accorded these courses by the graduate institutions of the North and East. This, of course, must not be understood to mean that the University of Texas confers the degree of Ph. D.

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"Publications of the Southern History Association", Volume 007, Number 1, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 75 - 76. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v007/n1/review_25.html
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