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 is paid by the charity organization than by a college or school. A minimum salary for the beginner is six dollars a week, or three hundred and twelve dollars a year, but it is seldom that a worker draws so low a salary for any length of time. If she is worth training, she is quickly worth more money. From three hundred and twelve a year the salary usually jumps to five hundred dollars, and increases with the usefulness and executive ability of the worker, seven thousand dollars being the maximum salary.

The preparation consists of high-school education, or, better, special attention to sociology and anthropology and political economy, followed by a year's practical training in a school of philanthropy. The entrance requirements of the New York School of Philanthropy, which is conducted by the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York and affiliated with Columbia University, are as follows:

"Men and women are enrolled as regular students, without further examination, who present satisfactory credentials as to character, good health and earnestness of purpose, and belong to one of the following classes: First, graduates of a recognized college or university who have taken some courses in the social sciences—sociology, economics, etc. Second, persons of good general education—at least equivalent to a high school or normal school training