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of economic life and institutions, American conditions being specifically analyzed. Students are encouraged to individual research.

Sociology. This is a continuation of economics. The text-book work is based on Giddings's Elements of Sociology. Lectures and investigations of various social problems. This course will be alternated with one on socialistic theories. Professor

Smith.

ALBRIGHT COLLEGE. Sociology.

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE.

"In sociology we use a text-book, following with it immediately after political economy, and taught by the professor of economics. Sociological matters are albo largely taken up by him with the history of civilization. So, also, with the study of general ethics."

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, PHILADELPHIA.

"In this school I teach sociology to the senior class, numbering this year about 140. It gets four months of lectures on social ethics. Then come four months of social economics, based on my Political Economy for High Schools.

" To the senior class of our department of pedagogy I give four months of his- toric sociology and four months of ethical sociology, the latter devoted especially to current ethical problems. Both by lectures." President R. E. Thompson.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. SPECIAL COURSE IN SOCIAL WORK.

3. Social history of England. A study of the organization of society in early England, and of the subsequent economic changes and social development. Lectures and required readings.

7. Development of English civilization. A study of the social progress of Eng- land during the last three centuries. The facts in regard to each great industrial epoch are presented, and their influence on national life, thought, and activity consid- ered. Special attention is given to those phases of English development which throw light upon the trend of American civilization.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LINDSAY.

20. Sociology. I. Study of ancient and modern social ideals, and of the pro- jected types of an ideal society. Social elements and history of sociological theories ; modern theories concerning social organization. Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics and Ideal Commonwealths constitute part of the required reading of the course. II. Study and analysis of historical and existing societies. Special reference to the gen- eral stages of social evolution, to the factors in social psychology, to the requisites of social survival, social efficiency, and social control. Lectures follow Manual and Outlines. Assigned readings.

23. Charities and correction. A study of social failures, and of the efforts to restore social debtor classes and individuals to social efficiency. The causes of pov- erty ; the problems of pauperism ; the development and administration of charities ; penology ; public and private agencies in dealing with pauperism and crime.

24. Social reform in the nineteenth century. A study of the writings of four groups of social reformers : the utopists : Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen, Bellamy, Hertzka ; (&) the moral and ethical group : Kingsley, Maurice, Carlyle, Ruskin,