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Dr. J. R. Brackett, chairman of Board of Charity and Correction, Baltimore, conducted a course of ten lectures on " Public Aid, Charity, and Corrections." Attend- ance about thirty, including several physicians and trained nurses actively interested in philanthropic work, several clergymen, two or three colored, and students from graduate and undergraduate departments. Ten conferences of six students were held ; subjects : English poor-law and charitable law and custom, reports of meetings, and reviews of important books and subjects.

HISTORY.

Associate Professor Vincent lectures to graduate students on the history of Europe. The courses direct attention to the social, economic, and constitutional development of European peoples since the fall of the Roman empire. The subjects follow in consecutive order, the topics for each year forming a complete and inde- pendent group. The whole series of courses requires three years for completion and offers opportunity for close study of mediaeval and early modern history of the conti- nent and England.

MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST COLLEGE.

Ethics and sociology in philosophy.

BOSTON COLLEGE.

ETHICS.

Special ethics. The philosophy of religion ; individual rights and duties ; suicide ; dueling ; charity and justice ; freedom of conscience ; right of self-defense ; owner- ship ; socialism ; society in general ; the family; marriage ; emancipation of woman ; parental right ; slavery; the state ; origin of the state ; false views of Hobbes and Rousseau ; constitution of the state ; powers and rights of the state ; church and state ; the school question ; liberty of the press ; international law; intervention ; treaties ; concordats ; war.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Second term. The distribution of wealth ; real and nominal profits ; rents ; wages ; rich and poor; various proposals by communists, socialists, anarchists, for the division of wealth ; rights of property; various social relations ; needed reforms ; revenue and expenditure of government ; taxation ; public debts ; wider aspects of economic study; modern illusions.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY.

ECONOMICS, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND LAW. PROFESSOR BALDWIN AND DR. FALL.

5. Elements of social science. An introductary course in the principles of soci- ology and the history of institutions.

6. Socialism and social reform. A descriptive and critical course showing the development of socialistic doctrines, and the rise and progress of the movement in Germany, England, and America. Topical study of present problems of social reform.

See also under "Theological Seminaries."

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

PHILOSOPHY.

5. The ethics of the social questions. The problems of poor relief, the family, temperance, and various phases of the labor question, in the light of ethical theory.