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emphasize their sociological rather than their strictly technical side, and thus a good deal of interest is kept alive in current as well as permanent sociological questions."

SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.

HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

PROFESSOR WILLIAM I. HULL AND DR. GUSTAV A. KLEENE.

Course I. Elements of economics. Industrial problems of today, including labor organization ; strikes and arbitration ; co-operation and profit-sharing ; industrial betterment; laborers' insurance ; immigration; the unemployed ; the eight-hour day ; women and children in industry; monopolies and trusts.

Course 3. Socialism ; its history and claims. Industrial reformers of the nineteenth century. Municipal problems. One hundred and forty-four hours.

Course 4. Elements of sociology. Social problems of today, including crime and punishment ; the insane and feeble-minded ; pauperism and charity ; tenement houses ; womanhood and the family ; the children of the poor ; social settlements ; intem- perance and methods of temperance reform ; the Salvation Army's social work ; the negro ; the Indian. In connection with the work in social science visits are made to neighboring charitable and correctional institutions.

RHODE ISLAND

COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS OF VILLANOVA. PHILOSOPHY.

5. Sociology. Definition and origin of the social questions; the elements of natural justice and morality in the acquisition of property; socialism defined; different schools of socialism ; social democracy in Germany ; critical examination of the origin of socialism ; social order from a Christian standpoint ; the labor question and other questions of the day.

BROWN UNIVERSITY.

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. PROFESSORS WILSON AND DEALEV, AND DR. WILLETT.

12. Elementary course.

1. The principles of sociology. Nature of society, social forces, and environ- ment.

2, 3. Social problems and conditions. Relating to charity, criminology, etc.

4. Social philosophy. Aims and ideals in social life, social well-being.

5. Development of social theory. Tracing important theories, ancient and modern, in regard to social conditions and development.

7, 8, 9. Current social theory and practice. Throughout the year. Elective for graduates. Practical sociological investigations.

10. Social institutions. Their development, forms, and importance. The family, church, state, etc.

11. Demography. Dispersion of races. A social study of race characteristics.

13. Socialism. Ancient and modern, with especial attention to present phases of the theory.

14. Social statistics. Method of gathering and handling data in the study of social problems and conditions.