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William Morris, and Henry George ; (c) the proletarian socialistic group : Blanc, Proudhon, Lassalle, Schultz-Delitsch, Marx, Engels, Bebel, and Liebknecht; (d) the governmental meliorists : Shaftesbury, Nicholls, the Fabians, and others.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ROWK AND MR. SCOTT.

12. Local and municipal institutions. A comparative study of city government in Europe and the United States. The course is divided into two parts. Part I : The problems of city life in ancient and mediaeval times. Rise of the modern city; changes in political and social conditions accompanying its growth. Part II, Municipal government in the United States as compared with England, France, and Germany. Required readings in Shaw's Municipal Government in Great Britain, Goodnow's Municipal Problems and Municipal Home Rule.

g. Modern legislative problems. Relation of the individual to the state, in Europe and the United States. Limitations on legislative action. Contrast between American and European ideas concerning the functions and powers of government. The development of individual liberty in modern times, as illustrated in our political system by the rights of citizenship, state and federal.

10. Government and state activity. Comparative study of the nature and extent of powers or government. Relation of the state to industrial actions. Resulting relation between the individual and the state. Citizenship in the United States as compared with England, Germany, and France. Protection to civil and political rights. The individualistic and socialistic movements of the present century.

TEMPLE COLLEGE. EVENING CLASSES.

Sociology. A study of the organization of society, and of the character of social forces based on Giddings's Elements of Sociology, followed by field work in particular

localities of the city.

SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY.

SOCIOLOGY. PRESIDENT HEISLER.

Wright's Practical Sociology is used as a text-book, two hours a week, in the second term of senior year. This is supplemented by lectures and collateral reading, Each student is required to prepare a thesis on some practical sociological topic, which is counted as part of the class-room work. The purpose is to acquaint students with the great factors entering into our social life, and to develop in them, as intelligent citizens, a profound and patriotic interest in social and economic problems of today.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE.

ETHICS.

Conduct, the laws of duty, moral obligation, and ethical judgments are treated as the activities and normal processes of the social self.

"The Pennsylvania State College does not maintain a department of sociology, nor has it yet been possible to introduce that study distinctively even as a separate branch.

" All students, however, are required during the sophomore year to take an outline course in general history ; and during the senior year the entire class is required to take political economy, constitutional law, and international law, as one strand or course throughout the year. The instruction in these subjects has always tended to