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NEBRASKA -WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.

PROFESSOR CLINE. II. Sociology. Elements of sociology and American charities.

NEW HAMPSHIRE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY. PROFESSOR WELLS.

3. Anthropological geography. This considers man in his relation to his physi- cal environment, as determining his dispersion over the face of the globe, his mode of life, and the density of population. It traces the bearings of the natural surroundings upon man's physical and mental characteristics, and follows this fundamental and necessary adjustment through the history of the family and the state, and in the evo- lution of the forms of economic life.

4. Social statistics. This course begins with a study of demography, or the social groups given by statistics. It considers the classification of the population in modern society due to physical or social causes. It then inquires into the results of vital statistics, such as the mortality from different diseases, birth and marriage rates under varying climatic and social conditions. Finally the above data are brought into con- nection with crime, pauperism, and social reform. It is a study of the biologic side social life.

5. Constructive sociology. This is an attempt to formulate the laws of social evolution and social organization. It is an analysis of the phenomena that are con- sidered as at once physical and mental, but whose ultimate explanation must be in terms of social psychology. The end constantly in view is a true interpretation of social facts, in the concrete terms of science.

History, theory, and technique of statistics. Studies in American statistics.

FRANK L. TOLMAN. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.

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