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 —who have had considerable experience as volunteer managers, visitors or directors of charitable societies, or of social, educational, philanthropic or religious activities. Third, professional workers with at least one year's successful practice of the profession of social work who desire to improve their knowledge of the methods of social service."

In one or two other schools the entrance requirements are a trifle less rigid.

The plan of instruction employed in the New York School of Philanthropy, and practically in all similar schools, is as follows:

The one-year course offers supervised work to occupy the entire time of the student for eight months (October to May), six days in the week from nine o'clock to five. It comprises formal lectures by experts, classroom exercises and discussions, assigned readings and library work, field work in visiting institutions and carrying on investigations, practice work in the visitation of needy families and the practical administration of office work in the various special lines of the individual interest of each separate student. New York City offers doubtless the richest opportunities in the country for such practice work.

The tuition fee for such training averages fifty dollars a year, to which board and incidental expenses must be added—about five hun-