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19. Social hygiene. M. Dr. du Mesuil, physician at the Asylum of Vin- cennes.

20. Social assistance and prevention. M. P. Strauss, member of tl it- Municipal Council.

21. The principles of colonization. M. de Lanessau, ex-governor-gen- t-ral of Indo-China.

22. The bourses. M. Thaller, professor at the Faculty of Law.

23. Comparative industrial and labor legislation. M. Dufourmantelle, advocate.

24. Labor questions : I. The organization of labor in France. M. Keufer ; II. Productive labor associations. M.Vila.

Beside these courses some lectures were delivered on " Labor Insurance" and laborers' budgets, by MM. Weber and Prunget, of the office du Travail ; on "Social Idealism," by M. Fourniere, of the Paris Municipal Council; on the "General Principles of Sociology," by the eminent sociologist, Gabriel Tarde ; on "Criminology," by M. de Mailly, advocate ; and a number of visits of inspection were conducted by MM. du Mesuil, du Maroussem and Barrat.

Of the ninety-eight names inscribed at the opening of the college (for a merely nominal fee) over ninety were students in the higher educational institutions of Paris. This number was greatly increased in the lists for the second scholastic year, just concluded. But the college aims, after all, at more than the sociological education of students preparing for a professional career. It aims at what the secretary of the college aptly terms "social education," i. e., the creation of a general education at the side of the special education which all of us now receive. It aims at systematic preparation for social duties and for an intel- ligent grasp of social arrangements and problems, as well as the systematic preparation for one's special occupation which is now alone attended to. There is need of this broad synthetic union of our diverse special trainings in a common preparation for social labor.

How far the aims of the College libre des Sciences Sociales will be realized, experience alone can demonstrate. This experience will itself point out the needs for alteration. But even now