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 STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY IN UNITED STA TES 1 1 3

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS. DR. CARROLL D. WRIGHT AND DR. CHARLES P. NKILL.

V. Lectures on special topics in social economics. This course, conducted by Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, treats of the use and method of statistics in the study of industrial and social questions, and discusses problems of present importance in the field of social economics. One hour. Second half-year.

The resignation of Professor Carroll D. Wright, on account of the present financial difficulties of the university, has just been announced in the press.

COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY THE CORCORAN SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

POLITICS AND ECONOMICS.

PROFESSOR CRAVEN, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT; DR. WRIGHT, LECTURER ON STATISTICS; MR. McNABB, INSTRUCTOR IN BUSINESS LAW.

VI. Comparative statistics. A numerical study of social relations, with particu- lar regard to the population, industries, and commerce of the United States and other leading nations. Two hours, 1901-1902.

SOCIOLOGY.

XL The principles of sociology. Two hours, 1900-1901.

XII. A study of individualism, socialism, and of the practical social problems of state and municipal administration in respect to sanitation, charities, crime, etc. Two hours, 1901-1902.

COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES.

ECONOMICS. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WEST.

III. Municipal economy. A study of municipal functions in various countries and of the corresponding forms of municipal government. The actual experiences of cities in dealing with the problems growing out of the concentration of population will be compared, with a view to determining how far and in what directions the modern tendency toward the extension of municipal activities is advantageous.

IV. Social therapeutics. A study of voluntary agencies for promoting social

welfare.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.

PHILOSOPHY.

Course 3. Special ethics. Duties and rights. Individual law. Revelation. Pub- lic worship. Self-culture and station in life. Suicide. Private ownership. Dueling. Lying. Social law. Domestic society. Divorce. Celibacy. Education. Civil society. Authority.

Politics. Forms of government. Essential functions : legislative, judiciary, executive. Armed force. Civil administration. Penal code. Church and state. Ecclesiastical society. International law. Intervention. War and peace.

Course 4. Distribution. The social problem. Socialist solution. Rights of property. Classes of sharers : autonomous producer, master, wage-earner, man living on his income, the indigent.