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49. Sociology. A study of social institutions, with special reference to American conditions. Social problems and their proposed solutions. Among the subjects dis- cussed are immigration, problems of city life, employment of women and children, factory legislation, defective and delinquent classes, socialism. References : Ward's Outlines of Sociology, Fairbanks's Introduction to Sociology, Wright's Practical Sociology, Blackmar's History and Sociology, Spencer's Principles of Sociology, Giddings's Ele- ments of Sociology, Smith's Statistics and Sociology.

BROOKLYN POLYTECHNIC. DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.

Sociology. Outline study of social evolution, involving analysis of past and pres- ent societies, of projected ideal societies, and a determination of the requisites of social survival, social efficiency, and social control.

COLLEGE OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER.

Special ethics includes private ownership, communism, socialism, agrarian social- ism, Henry George's theories. The combination of capital and labor organizations.

Domestic society: Matrimony, divorce, celibacy, education. Civil society: The nature and scope of civil society. Hobbes, Rousseau, the schoolmen. Aim and scope of civil government. Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant.

CANISIUS COLLEGE.

Special ethics includes, int. al., the following topics : society in general nature and constituent elements of society, social activity; the family.

ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY.

SOCIOLOGY. PROFESSOR FISHER.

Elective. Students interested in social science and already well grounded in the principles of political economy may, on application approved by the instructor, be admitted to the course in sociology.

(See also Canton Theological School.)

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, PHILOSOPHY.

I4a. Social psychology. Dr. Washborn. In the first part of this course the psychological aspect of the development of the human race, including the growth of language, the origin and development of myth, of custom, and of art and science, will be considered. In the second part the psychological character of civilized society will be studied.

HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

The course in elementary social economics aims to show the significance for the students of economics and social life of the theories of evolution. Attention is cen- tered upon the social group rather than upon the individual. The family, as the simplest and most important social group, is first studied in its historical development and its present organization and life. The study advances from this to the elementary study of the more complex and ill-defined social groups, such as races and the several