I 6 5 THE NEW PROFESSION AND PREPARATION FOR IT Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy Bulletin, Vol. 1 , No. 6 October, 1910 Published Quarterly by the School, 87 Lake St., Chicago, Ill. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office, Chicago, Illinois, under Act of July 16, 1894 Central Location of School. 10 minutes by street car to Newberry Library Historical Society Library City Water Works Cook County Jail WEST SIDE FROM SCHOOL 15 minutes by .Street cars to Hull House Chicago Com¬ mons 30 minutes and under to Other Principal Settlements 30 to 60 minutes to Juvenile Court Detention Home • Cook County Hospital John Worthy Reform School School for Crippled Children City House of Correction • Parental School Hospital for the Insane and Infirm¬ ary for the Poor at Dunning Chicago Theo¬ logical Sem¬ inary Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul (Episcopal) Western Theo¬ logical Sem¬ inary of the Protestant Episcopal Church FROM SCHOOL TO NORTH SIDE 15 minutes to Lincoln Park Daily News Sanitarium for Sick Children Cathedral of the Holy Name (Roman Catholic) 30 minutes to St. Stanislaus* Polish Parish McCormick Theological Seminary 60 minutes to Northwestern University, Evanston CENTRAL FROM SCHOOL 5 minutes walk to City Hall County Build¬ ing United Char¬ ities Public Library John Crerar Library Children's Home and Aid Society and Head¬ quarters of the Civic and Philanthrop¬ ic Agencies 10 to 15 minutes walk to City Club Woman’s Club Ass’n of Com¬ merce Federation of Labor Factory In¬ spector’s Office Y. M. 0. A. Building Lodging House District Grant Park Hotels Auditorium Theatres Railway Centers Home for the Friendless Armour Institute Field Museum South Parks and Play Grounds FROM SCHOOL TO SOUTH SIDE 30 to 60 minutes by street cars to Principal Churches Catholic, Jewish and Protestant University of Chicago Sinai Temple Chicago Normal School Stockyards South Chicago Steel Plant Pullman Co’s, \yorks 'Vj . - * t ? H, I THE PROFESSION 3 oi. o? C The Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy was instituted in 1903 in recognition of the demand for skilled professional service in humanitarian work. In the last two decades many prominent social movements have developed under private voluntary auspices; public philanthropic in¬ stitutions have been modernized under the civil service; cities are now being re-made under broad plans for promoting the welfare of the inhabitants. A method, a technique of social and civic work, is thus being worked out on the basis of accumulated experience, and scientific inquiry, precisely as has been done in the past in legal, medical and other professions. In the next succeeding pages is given a resume of the main fields of specialization in this new profession and of the technical training pro¬ vided by the School (pages 171-178). As in the other professions, undergraduate studies are the best foundation for success in a postgraduate school and subsequent career. Economics, sociology, history and related subjects of the college curriculum form the best academic preparation for rapidly acquiring the theory and practice offered by the school. (See entrance condi¬ tions, page 184; curriculum, page 170; Field practice, page 175.) The school, like other professional schools, offers special facili¬ ties and equipment in its field: supervised practice in the comprehen¬ sive laboratory provided by the social institutions and conditions of Chicago (see page 175); a Department of Social Investigation main¬ tained by special grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, has already completed some valuable inquiries and published the results (page 176); a social service library and a museum of instructional exhibits in¬ terpretative of the courses in the order given (see page 176); extension lectures (see page 177); and aids to employment in the social service field (see page 180). The increasing number who are being drawn toward social and civic work as a profession is reflected in the expanding registration of the school (see page 178). The size of this year’s class (page 179) and the qualifications of its members, as indicated by the educational institutions represented (page 179), show an encouraging response to the insistent demand that the improvement of living and working conditions shall keep pace with advance in other phases of human activity. The School and alumni notes (pages 181-183), are given in the Bulletin as usual to keep trustees, alumni and friends in touch at regular intervals with the life of the school. 167 Board of Trustees Jane Addams. Alfred L. Baker. Mrs. Emmons Blaine Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen Edward 0. Brown Charles R. Crane Mrs. W. P. Dummer Victor Eltino W. E. Hotchkiss, Northwestern University. F. E. Blackmar, University of Kansas. Charles H. Cooley, University of Michigan. Richard T. Ely, University of Wisconsin. John H. Gray, University of Minnesota. TRUSTEES. William Kent. Julia C. Lathrop Julian W. Mack Ralph Norton Allen B. Pond Edward L. Ryerson Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Graham Taylor FROM UNIVERSITIES. George E. Vincent, University of Chicago. George E. Howard, University of Nebraska. David Kinley, University of Illinois. Isaac Loos, State University of Iowa. U. G. Weatherly, University of Indiana. Administration Graham Taylor, President Julia C. Lathrop, Vice-President Edward L. Ryerson, Treasurer Address Jos. T. Ryerson & Son, 1220 West 16th Street, Chicago Departments General Training.Director, Graham Taylor Social Investigation.Director, Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Assistant Director, Edith Abbott Museum, Library and Social Publicity . . Director, Edward L. Burchard Registrar (to whom all correspondence should be addressed) Estelle B. Hunter Staff of Instruction Jane Addams, Hull-House. Edith Abbott, Associate Director, Department of Social Investigation. Grace Abbott, Director, Immigrants’ Protective League, Chicago. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Director, Department of Social Investiga¬ tion. Assistant Professor of Social Eco¬ nomy, University of Chicago. Mrs. Katherine L. Briggs, Field Secretary, United Charities of Chicago. Supervisor of Students' Field Work, under United Charities. Edward L. Burchard, Director, Museum, Library and Social Publicity. William Healy, M. D. Director, Juvenile Psychopathic Institute, Chicago. Alexander Johnson, Secretary, National Conference of Char¬ ities and Correction. Sherman C. Kingsley, Superintendent,United Charities, Chicago. Julia C. Lathrop, Hull-House. George C. Sikes, Secretary, Chicago Bureau of Municipal Efficiency. Formerly Secretary, Muni¬ cipal Voters’ League, Chicago. Graham Taylor, Warden, Chicago Commons. Associate Editor “The Survey." Henry W. Thurston, Superintendent Illinois Children’s Home and Aid Society. 168 Special Lecturers for 1910-11 Charles B. Ball, Chief Sanitary Inspector, City of Chicago. Dr. David Blaustein, Lecturer on Immigration. W. L. Bodine, Superintendent, Compulsory Department, Board of Education, Chicago. Amos W. Butler, Secretary, Board of State Charities, Indiana. Helen M. Crittenden, Registrar, United Charities, Chicago. Henry S. Curtis, Lecturer on Play. Formerly Director of Playgrounds, New York City and Wash¬ ington, D. C. Edgar T. Davies, Chief, State Factory Inspection Depart¬ ment of Illinois. Edward B. DeGroot, Superintendent of Playgrounds, South Park Commission, Chicago. W. A. Evans, M. D., Commissioner of Health, City of Chicago. Henry B. Favill, M. D., President, City Club, Chicago. James A. Field, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, University of Chicago. Harriet Fulmer, Superintendent, Visiting Nurse Associa¬ tion, Chicago. Mrs. John M. Glenn, Formerly Secretary Charity Organization Department, Baltimore, Md. Luther H. Gulick, Director, Child Hygiene Department, Russell Sage Foundation, New York. Hastings H. Hart, Director, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation. Clark W. Hetherington, Joseph Fels Endowed Fellowship in Physical Education; formerly of the University of Missouri. Clara Landsberg, Hull House. Henry E. Legler, Librarian, Chicago Public Library. Mary E. McDowell, Head-Resident, University of Chicago Settlement. . Francis H. McLean, Field Secretary, Charity Organization Department, Russell Sage Foundation. George H. Mead, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago. James Mullenbach, Assistant Superintendent, United Chari¬ ties of Chicago. Mrs. Robert L. Parsons, Principal, Chicago School of Physical Education and Expression. Vaclav H. Podstata, M. D., Alienist. Mary E. Richmond, Director, Charity Organization Depart¬ ment, Russell Sage Foundation. Mrs. Raymond Robins, President National Women's Trade Union League. Theodore Sachs, M. D., Chicago Tuberculosis Institute. Ethelbert Stewart, Statistical Staff, Federal Tariff Board, Washington, D. C.; formerly Special Agent, United States Bureau of Labor. Graham Romeyn Taylor, Staff of The Survey; Secretary, Play¬ ground Association of Chicago. William vl. Thomas, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago. James H. Tufts, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago. Howard W. Woodhead, Instructor in Sociology, University of Chicago. Lawrence Veiller, Secretary and Director, National Housing Association, New York City. Victor Von Borosini, Juvenile Protective Association. Edward J. Ward, Extension Division, University of Wis¬ consin; formerly Superintendent of Social Centers, Public Schools, Rochester, N Y. Frank E. Wing, Superintendent Chicago Tuberculosis In¬ stitute. Frederick H. Wines, Statistician State Board of Administra¬ tion, Springfield, Ill. John H. Witter, Chief Probation Officer, Juvenile Court, Chicago. Edward F. Worst, Superintendent of Schools, Joliet, II 169 Schedule of Courses AUTUMN TERM—OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1910. (October 4th to December 21st.) 1. Survey of the Field.22 hours. Required Monday, Tuesday. 3 P. M. 2. Principles and Methods of Relief and Family Rehabilitation. 44 hours. Required Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 4 P. M. 3. Social Functions of Local Government 44 hours. Required Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 3 P. M. WINTER TERM—JANUARY-M ARCH, 1911. (January 3d to March 17th.) 4. Housing and Public Health .22 hours. Elective Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 5. Administration of Institutions .22 hours. Required Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 6. Social Legislation .22 hours. Required Wednesday, Friday. 7. Industrial Efficiency. 22 hours. Elective Monday, Tuesday. SPRING TERM—APRIL-JUNE, 1911. (March 28th to June 2d.) 8. Public Care of Children. Thursday, Friday. 4 P. M. 22 hours. Required 9. Immigration . Monday, Tuesday. 3 P. M. .22 hours. Elective 10. Physical and Psychical Factors of Dependency and Delinquency. Thursday, Friday. 3 P. M. . 22 hours. Required 11. Community Co-operation. Monday, Tuesday. 4 P. M. 22 hours. Required 12. Play and Playgrounds. . . 44 hours. Elective Tuesday, Wednesday. 2 P. M. SUMMER SESSION—JULY, 1911. (Begins June 26th.) A. Play and Playgrounds . Elective B. Occupation for Attendants for the Insane . Elective C. Public Service in Chicago, Official and Private Elective AUTUMN TERM—1911-1912. (Begins October 2nd.) Course practically as for 1910-1911 shown above. 170 OPPORTUNITIES AND TRAINING Educated men and women are increasingly impressed with the oppor¬ tunities and obligations to serve their community in some definite way. The specilization of community work appeals for specific knowledge of some branch of it as well as for a larger social intelligence. This appeal comes with more force than hitherto because specialization in almost every department of public work for community welfare makes special prepara¬ tion more interesting, available and practically effective. The Lecture Courses and accompanying Field Work provided by the school as here described, have been arranged not only with reference to training specialists, but to presenting in a one year’s curriculum the study of the whole field of social work preparatory to engaging in any^of its many lines of practical effort. In Industry Industrial efficiency, as the demand of the hour, involves not only craft skill and expert management of business, but also the improvement of the human conditions and relationships of industry. To this end are required knowledge of the historical background and economic evolution out of which our labor problems have come up to us out of the past, and also very specific training in the observation and interpretation of present conditions, movements, organizations and forces. Instead of adding a few merely philanthropic “welfare” features to the operation of their plants, mer¬ chants and manufacturers are placing the organization of their industry itself upon more of a social basis. Industrial leadership more and more exacts high social initiative and resourcefulness of those who aspire to be leaders in commerce and manu¬ facturing. As the social intelligence and vision of such leaders increase they are seeking these qualities in their subordinates, and are creating new positions for men and women specially trained to be skillful in hygienic, recreative and organizing work. Such positions are multiplying and demanding trained service of various kinds in shops and large stores, telephone exchanges and railway companies, mining and construction camps, and many other branches of industry. The Course offered by this school gives specific preparation for such service. Course VII. 22 hours. Winter Term. Graham Taylor, Member Illinois Mining Investigating Commission, Warden Chicago Commons. Edgar T. Davies, Illinois State Factory Inspector. Victor von Borosini on German and European conditions, and other special lecturers. Leadership in Play The country-wide spread of interest in and equipment for recreation invests the playground and recreation center with educational and civic value. Playground directors are needed therefore, who can not only supervise those who have charge of the gymnasium floor and athletic field but who can promote the largest use of the equipment by all classes in the 171 172 THE NEW PROFESSION community and make the playground the center for training both younger and older people in community co-operation and civic spirit. Public school buildings and public library buildings, settlement houses and churches are, singly or together—becoming social centers for civic co-operation. But their use, like that of the parks and playgrounds, will be no more effective than the directors of their work are efficient. The demand for leaders of these educative recreation centers creates the necessity for new and very careful training. The School has the co-opera¬ tion of some of the best leaders of this movement and also the object lesson of the grestest playgrounds equipment in the world, which the Chicago playgrounds are conceded to possess. A recent graduate of the school stepped almost at once into the management of one of these centers, which under his sympathetic and skillful management is becoming nothing less than a municipal settlement. Course XII. 22 hours. Spring Term. Special Course. Course A. Summer Session. E. B. De Groot, Superintendent Chicago South Park playgrounds and fieldhouses; Dr. Luther H. Gulick, Director Child Hygiene Department, Russell Sage Foundation; Prof. Clark W. Hetherington, University of Missouri; Mrs. R. L. Parsons, Chicago School of Physical Education; Graham R. Taylor, Secretary Chicago Playground Asso¬ ciation; and other specialists. Care For the Immigrant Immigration, which strangely has been neglected by educated people is becoming a fascinating study and field for action to many studious and public spirited men and women. It affords an unmet and inviting op¬ portunity for original inquiry and patriotic w^ork in helping our foreign bom populations to that intelligent and loyal citizenship to which they aspire. Immigrants’ Protective Leagues, schools for citizenship, and other similar agencies are demanding far more helpers of broad intelligence, trained sypmathies and resourceful knowledge of tributary sources of help than any community has yet been able to furnish. Course IX. 22 hours. Spring Term. Grace Abbott, Director of the Immigrants’ Protective League, Chicago, James A. Field, Assistant Professsor of Political Economy, University of Chicago, and other special lecturers. Child Welfare Child helping agencies including not only more charitable and reforma¬ tory efforts and institutions than ever before, but far more initiation and management of preventive, protective, preoccupying and constructive movements than there are trained people to initiate and manage. Public institutions, as well as such private enterprises as boys and girls clubs and camps, juvenile protective associations, the Knights of King Arthur and the Boy Scouts and many Settlement and church activities for children are crippled for the lack of managers and helpers, who are trained in a modem practical way to deal with boys and girls and young people. OPPORTUNITIES AND TRAINING Course VIII. 22 hours. Spring Term. Henry W. Thurston, Superintendent Illinois Childrens Home and Aid Society, assisted by J. H. Witter, Chief Probation Officer of Juve¬ nile Court, W. L. Bodine, Compulsory Department Chicago Board of Education, and special lecturers. Physical and Psychical Factors of Dependency and Delinquency. CourseX. 22 hours. Spring Term. Wm. Healy, M. D., Director Juvenhe Psycnopathic Institute with headquarters at Juvenile Court, Chicago. Charities Relief of the dependent has become scientific n its understanding of poverty-produ«ing conditions in its classification and registration of facts, in its enlistment of community-wide co-operation and in the prevention of dependency and the restoration of self help. Relief work has thus attained recognized professional status and those who lead in it are rightly regarded as scientific specialists. The course on principles and methods of relief and family rehabilitation giving not only historical development, but investigation, concrete prob¬ lems and study of the forces available for treatment, has commanded the services of noted specialists from the east and west. The district work of the United Charities of Chicago has afforded the best possible practice fields under expert supervision for the study of the school. Course II. 44 hours. Autumn Term. S. C. Kingsley, Superintendent United Charities, Chicago, assisted by Mary E. Richmond, Director, and F. H. McLean, Field Secretary, Charity Organization Department Russell Sage Foundation; Mrs. John M. Glenn, New York Charity Organization Society, and Mrs. K. L. Briggs, Assistant Superintendent United Charities, Supervisor of Field Work; Edith Abbott Associate Director Department of Social Investigation Administration of Institutions Charitable and reformatory institutions and agencies are requiring specialists to manage them and specially trained helpers for their staffs and in their boards of management. Now, never as before, trained service is demanded for the scientific and social treatment of defectives—the msane, feeble-minded, epileptic, blind and crippled; for the reformation and restoration of the delinquent classes—truant children, juvenile de¬ linquents under the care of juvenile courts or reformatory institutions, and the wayward or exploited youth before they fall under the custody of the state; and for the public care of the homeless, the aged, and the in¬ capacitated . The positions opening in all this service appeal'for men and women who not only will enter them with the humane purpose to relieve and prevent suffering, but who will fit themselves to do so by special training. Many of these public institutions maintain training classes to increase the effi¬ ciency of their service and some of them either send attendants, nurses and other officers to take special courses in this School or require applicants to do so. 174 THE NEW PROFESSION Course V. 22 hours. Winter Term. Alexander Johnson, Secretary National Conference of Charities and Correction, Amos W. Butler, Secretary Indiana State Board of Charities and Frederick Howard Wines, Statistician, Illinois Board of Adminis¬ tration. Housing and Public Health Public health is demanding and receiving the expert service of social workers. Much of the effort to prevent the rise and spread of disease as well as to take after-care of convalescents must be done, if at all, either by those especially fitted and devoted to such work, or by nurses and atten¬ dants who are especially trained for this additional professional function New' opportunities are thus opening to nurses and physicians, and new fields to those trained to supplement their work. Course IV. 22 hours. Winter Term. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge and Edith Abbott, Directors of the recent Chicago Housing Inquiry; assisted by Lawrence Veiller, Director, National Housing Association, New York; Chas. B. Ball, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Chicago; and other specialists. General Neighborhood and Civic Work The departmental administration and planning of cities and towns are exacting of private citizens and public officials a knowledge of municipal history and present conditions, a familiarity wdth the practical workings of city government, and a vision of the possibilities of civic progress, such as has not hitherto been attained or sought by many. Chicago is perhaps the most open field for study along all these lines for civic development. The successful struggle of the Municipal Voters League for integrity and capacity in the city council, the effort to place the administration of the departments of the City Government upon an effi¬ cient and uniform business basis through the Bureau of Public Efficiency; the public and private w r ork for better housing; the endeavor of the police and the city Vice Commission to rectrict and suppress vicious conditions, and the co-operation of the public library, public schools, public park commissions to substitute good recreations for evil amusements; the great Plan for Chicago in the realization of which the Chicago Plan Com¬ mission purposes to make this city one of the most beautiful, healthful and attractive cities of the world—all these rapidly developing movements enable Chicago to present perhaps the greatest object lesson for study and observation, which America has ever produced. Course I. Survey of the Field. 22 hours. Autumn Term. Graham Taylor, President of the School, and Associate Editor The Survey. Course III. Social Functions of Local Government. 44 hours. Autumn Term. Geo. C. Sikes, Secretary Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency and Grace Abbott, Hull House. Course VI. Social Legislation. 22 hours. Winter Term. Grace Abbott, Editor Summary of Juvenile Court Laws; Prof. Ernst Freund, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago and special lectures by distinguished jurists. SPECIAL FACILITIES 175 Course XI. Community Co-operation. 22 hours. Spring Term. Graham Taylor, Jane Addams, Hull House; Mary E. McDowell, Head Resident, University of Chicago Settlement; Dr. David Blaustein. Fels Lectureship; E. J. Ward, Organizer of Civic and Social Centers, University of Wisconsin; Clara Landsberg. Hull House. SPECIAL FACILITIES Visits of Inspection The personal service is availed of by the school of specialists who are in charge of city departments, public institutions and agencies, social settlements and such specialized private agencies as the Juvenile Pro¬ tective Association, the Playground Association, the Legal Aid Society, the Central.Howard Association, the Juvenile Psychopathic Institute, the Tuberculosis Institute, the Children’s Home and Aid Society, the United Charities and many others and excursions of observation are made weekly. Practice Work Practice work on the field under expert supervision is considered fully as important as the instruction given in the class room. Therefore each student is assigned to field work for one-half of each working day. After the full round of experience is given in one of the United Charieties dis¬ tricts during half the year, the assignment to field work may be changed in accordance with the specialized work for which the student is training. In this use of the City of Chicago as a great laboratory, the School has always enjoyed the cordial co-operation of public officials and private citizens who give the freest access to the city’s life and work and many of whom assist the school with talks and addresses on their work. This stirring center of social activity and civic development offers for practice or inspection among other things; Social settlements, some world renowned, in extensive foreign and immigrant colonies, within easy access of the school. Consolidated system of charities with wide district organization, employment offices, creche, public laundry, summer camps, hospital social service and large county charita¬ ble institutions. Juvenile court building and every form of child caring. Playground centers and municipal and state recreational system characterized by President Roosevelt as leading in equipment and maintenance. Industries—presenting all phases of welfare work and inspection. Education for the people—schools, kindergartens, libraries, art gallery, museums. Remedical Agencies—Courts, probation system, reformatories, prisons, asylums hospitals, institutional churches, civic organizations. As seen from the frontispiece map the school is strategically located with reference to this field of social study and work. 176 THE NEW PROFESSION Social Investigation This Department offers training in the application of statistical methods to social problems involving both the field work and technique of social inquiry. It enjoys an annual grant from the Russell Sage Foundation by which it undertakes special inquiries in co-operation with official depart¬ ments of Chicago. The result of its inquiry into conditions productive of child delinquency in Chicago will soon be published by the Russell Sage Foundation in two volumes, “The Child and the Home” and “The Child and the Court.” The inquiry into Housing Conditions in Chicago undertaken last year is in progress of completion and three preliminary studies have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology. “The Housing of Non-Family Groups of Working Men,” “Families in Furnished Rooms,” and “Housing Conditions in the Twenty-Ninth Ward.” The Department is engaged this year upon a study of truancy in Chicago. The purpose of all investigations undertaken by the Department is the ascertainment of such facts as will lead either to an improvement in the legislation governing the institutions studied, or to a more effective en¬ forcement of existing legislation by more adequate appropriation. The students employed in this work thus not only participate directly in useful social work but gain familiarity at the same time with methods of social science and statistics as applied practically to immediate needs and better¬ ments. The students in this Department during the current year hold degrees from the University of Chicago, Leland Stanford, Jr., the University of Missouri, Northwestern University, Vassar College and Western Reserve. Students of former years now occupy positions of trust and responsibility. More detailed information with reference to the methods of instruction, appointment of students and scope of the work may be obtained on ap¬ plication to the Registrar. Social Museum and Library In a professional school even more than in a general university or college, instruction, practice work, and research must be supplemented by books and illustrative material. The duration of the professional course is com¬ paratively so short and the latest developments are so new and widespread that every short circuit afforded by literature and graphic means must be utilized. This is particularly true of scientific schools and art schools where abundant books, pictures, models or other museum materials to put the student in quick and vital possession of the subject. The extent of such illustrative material in the social field is shown in the Social Service Library of New York, the Musee Social of Paris, the Peabody Social Museum at Harvard and the municipal museums of German cities. Even more so perhaps by the numerous educational exhibits made recently in this field, the Child Welfare Exhibit at the 71st Regiment Armory. New York, the many tuberculosis traveling exhibits, the exhibits of safety appliances, the great New York Budget exhibit, Infant Mortality exhibit, etc. SPECIAL FACILITIES 177 Nearly 1,000 books and 300 boxes of pamphlets on social and civic sub¬ jects are in the library of the school for the use of students either as sup¬ plementary reading or as current information in this field. The most recent ephemeral literature, reports, programs, announcements, etc., come in from the settlements and many institutions with which the school is in close relation. For wider investigation there are 40,000 volumes on soci¬ ology alone at the Crerar Library two blocks away and about as many more at the Public Library equally near at hand, including sets of serials and documents of cities and institutions. A trained librarian is in constant attendance at the school ready to assist students so far as demands on her time permit, and to prepare reference lists. Exhibits In the School’s museum acquired from the former municipal museum of Chicago, there are about 700 flat pieces, including large drawings, dia¬ grams, water colors, bromide enlargements, etc., illustrating the city plans of many European and American cities, industrial conditions, housing, parks, public baths, harbors, civic buildings, etc. There are also lantern slides, spectroscopes, and a few models. More important, however, for the immediate use of the student, are the traveling loan exhibits received from national associations of various social movements. The charities exhibit of the Russell Sage Foundation, shown at the school in the Autumn term and the Housing Exhibit from the National Housing Association now on display are examples of the larger resources placed at the command of students. There are 67 social move¬ ments in the United States many of which have material useful for inter¬ preting their special social service. The School also prepares occasional exhibits showing the field of its work that have been placed on exhibition in other cities. It is hoped that the scope of this form of social publicity may be broadened and that the students may be able to assist in the formation of exhibits that will in¬ struct those who are unable to come to the School, as well as the public generally. • Reference Work Clubs, officials or others desiring reference lists of literature prepared, or inquiries made on social or civic topics can have them made at cost by the school. Address the librarian. Extension A course of six lectures, one to be given each month at St. Paul’s Parish House, Kenwood, Chicago, began in October. The following program is in progress: October 31, 3 P. M. “Co-operation between Public and Private Charity,” by Sher¬ man C. Kingsley, Superintendent of the United Charities. Novemebr 21, 12 M. “Emergency Relief,” by James C. Mullenbach, Assistant Superintendent, United Charities, Chicago. December 19, 12 M. “Industrial Accidents in Relation to Poverty,” by Graham Taylor, President, Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. January 16, 12 M. “Protective Legislation for Women in Relation to Poverty,” by Miss Anna E. Nicholes, of Neighborhood House. 178 THE NEW PROFESSION February 20, 12 M. “Efficient Administration of Factory Legislation," by Mr. Edgar T. Davies, Chief Factory Inspector. March 20, 12 M. “The Problem of the 14 to 16 year old child in relation to Indus¬ trial Inefficiency and Poverty,” by Miss Sophonisba P. Breckinridge. Special Lectures at the School Miss Margaret MacMillan of London on “The Feeding of School Children.” Mr. Owen R. Lovejoy, Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee on the work of the committee. Through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Dummer, the school was able to have one of the three lectures given in Chicago by Dr. Albert Suedekum of Berlin, member of the Reichstag. He spoke in the large Assembly Room to students and guests of the School on “How German Cities Serve Their Citizens.” Mr. Kennedy, a member of the University of Chicago faculty, and di¬ rector of the University of Chicago Settlement Investigation on the aim and methods of the investigation now in progress. Professor Thomas of the University of Chicago, under the auspices of the Research Department, addressed the school on, “A Standpoint from which to Study the Immigrant Races.” Miss Co man, Mr. Besno and several representatives of the striking gar¬ ment workers presented the strike situation to the students of Dr. Taylor’s class, “The Survey of the Social Field.” During the garment workers strike several of the students of the Depart¬ ment of Social Investigation interviewed groups of workers in skilled trades. The reports of these interviews formed the basis of the report of the Sub-Committee to the Citizens Committee, November 5th, 1910, which was published by Miss Breckinridge, Director of the Department of Social Research, Professor George H. Mead and Miss Anna E. Nicholes. Dr. Alice Hamilton of Hull House on the International Congress on Industrial Diseases recently held at Brussels. THE REGISTRATION Since Organization 1903 to 1911. Total, 1013. 1903- 04—Enrolled for one or more terms, 31. 1904- 05—Enrolled for one or more terms, 16. 1905- 06—Full course, 1; enrolled for one or more terms, 106; summer term, 39; total, 146. 1906- 07—Full course, 3; enrolled for one or more terms, 96; total, 99. 1907- 08—Full course, 7; enrolled for one or more terms, 114; summer term, 61; 24 from state institutions; total, 182. 1908- 09—Full course, 12; enrolled for one or more terms, 64; summer term, 75; 29 from state institutions; research, 13; total, 164. 1909- 10—Full course, 15; enrolled for one or more terms, 263; summer term, 40; 19 from state institutions; research, 13; total, 291. 1910- 11—Full Course, 28; enrolled to January, 84; Grand Total, 1013. Less duplication. THE REGISTRATION 179 Autumn Term, 1910-1911 The resistrar’s report for the first term of the year 1910-11 shows: Total number of students enrolled, 84, of which 9 are in the Department of Social Investigation. There are 37 men and 47 women coming from 20 states, and from two foreign countries, Persia and Turkey. They represent 67 educational institutions, one-third being college graduates, one-third under-graduates, one-sixth are High School graduates with sufficient experience to admit them as regular students, and the remaining one- sixth are unclassified students doing special work. Of the 28 full course students, 25 have performed field work as visitors for the United Charities Society under the immediate direction of the district superintendents who allot work to each student according to plans made and supervised by Mrs. Katherine L. Briggs, field secretary of the Society. During the winter quarter field work will be continued under other social agency. To compare the registration for two years: 1909-10 1910-11 AUTUMN TERM -- Total number of students enrolled. 55 84 Students taking full course. 15 28 Men enrolled. 17 37 Women enrolled. 38 47 Educational Institutions Represented Albion College. American Conservatory of Music. Avalon College, Missouri. Athens University, Athens, Greece. Birmingham University, Birmingham, England. Beloit College, Michigan. Berlin University, Berlin, Germany. Bethany College, West Virginia. Chicago Froebel Association. Chicago Theological Seminary. Cogswell Polytechnic School, San Francisco, California. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado Congregational Training School for Women, Chicago. Drury College, Springfield, Missouri. Dennison University, Granville, Ohio. Epworth Seminary, Epworth, Iowa. Fairmount College, Wichita, Kansas. Franklin College. Friends’ Universitj\ Wichita, Kansas. Glasgow University, Scotland. Hanover College. Hahneman Medical College. Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. Iowa State College. Iowa State University. Irving Female College, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Kentucky State University. Lawrence University. Lander Clark College, Toledo, Ohio. Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. Lincoln University, Lincoln, Illinois. Lewis Institute, Chicago. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mason College, Birmingham, England. Missouri State University. Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. McMaster College, Wayne, Nevada. Nebraska Normal College. Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. New York Training School for Deaconesses. New York Post Graduate Medical School. Norway Gymnasium. 180 THE NEW PROFESSION Educational Institutions Represented— Continued Oberlin Academy. Olivet College, Olivet, Mich. Palmer College. * Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Sioux Falls College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Salonica Gymnasium, Salonica, Turkey. Sorbonne, Paris, France. Smith College. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Tarkio College, Tarkio, Ohio. Teacher’s Training School, Springfield, Ill, Urumia College, Urumia, Persia. University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois. University of Chicago. University of Wisconsin. University of Michigan. University of Minnesota. Valparaiso University. Vassar College. Washburn College. Wellesley College. Woman's Medical College. Y. M. C. A. Training School, Chicago. Ypsilanti Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich. Employment The Social Exchange is conducted by the School primarily in the interests of its students, but persons and agencies not connected with the school who can be unreservedly recommended are aided so far as the resources of the school permit. Since the opening of this school year October 4th, 1910, it has been instrumental in filling the following positions: Mrs. Sara Price Doney has accepted a position as assistant head resident of the Kings Daughter Settlement Home, in Freeport, Illinois. Miss Sabina Marshall has become a resident worker of Greenwich House, New York City. Mrs. Emma Henderson is now installed as matron of the Mary Etten Creche, situated on the South Side of Chicago. The Cheerful Home Settlement, Quincy, Illinois, has secured Mr. H. C. Webster as director of its Boys Club. Occupations The following short list illustrates the occupations followed by some of the students upon completion of the training given by the school: Agnes Aiken.Head Resident, Toledo Settlement, Ohio. Jessie F. Bell.Assistant to the Head Resident, University of Chicago Settlement. Anne Davis.Aid Department, Illinois Children’s Home and Aid Society. Jessica Foster.Truant Officer, Chicago. Gertrude Murrell.Truant Officer, Chicago. Corrine Rosenfeld.Visitor, United Charities, Chicago. Marjorie Sargent.Visitor, United Charities, Chicago. Edith Tate.Assistant Field Secretary, Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Milwaukee, Wis. Kathrene Gedney.Field Secretary, Anti Tuberculosis Society, Milwaukee, Wis. Mary Dranga Graebe.Assistant, J u ven ile Psychopathic Institute, Chicago, Ill. Joseph L. Moss.Assistant Chief Probation Officer, Chicago. SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NOTES 181 Julia B. Stem.Associated Jewish Charities, Chicago. Gertrude Vaile.Visitor, United Charities, Chicago. Louise Cottrell.Visitor, United Charities, Chicago. Helen Friend.District Superintendent, United Charities, Chicago. Sidney Teller.Director, West Park No. 2, Recreation Center. Thomas W. Sprowls.Resident Director of Pittsburg Playground. Helen Jewell.Chief Probation Officer, Evanston, Illinois. Mary E. Hunter.University of Chicago Settlement, Chicago. Arthur J. Strawson.Financial Secretary, Gads Hill Settlement, Chicago. Ethel Hanks.Forewoman, large Milwaukee Factory. Milton B. Hunt.Visiting and Investigating Staff of Immigrants' Protective League, Chicago. William L. Chenery.Reporter, Chicago Evening Post. Harry Herwitz.Civil Service (Clerical Work) Chicago. Caro Bugbey MacArthur. .Special Investigator, University of Chicago Set¬ tlement. Stella Packard.Probation Work, Los Angeles, California. Edith Terry.Social Service Secretary, Fall River, Mass. Stella Hitchcock.Visitor for United Charities, Chicago. Mrs. I. D Stebbins,.Assistant Bureau of Legal Aid, Chicago. Wilhelmina Piehler.Assistant Head Resident, Franklin Street Set¬ tlement. Detroit, Michigan. SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NOTES The October number of “Progress,” the quarterly periodical of the British Institute of Social Service devotes its leading article to an ap¬ preciative description of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. It is written by Mr. A. K. Maynard, Honorary Secretary of the Institute, who was much interested in the school while a resident of Chicago and associated with the work of Chicago Commons, the Northwestern Univer¬ sity Settlement, and the United Charities. Since returning to England with his family, he has again become a resident of Mansfield House Social Settlement, where he rendered several years of highly valued service before coming to America. T rustees The Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy shares with the city of Chicago and the University a great loss in the removal of Professor George E. Vincent to the presidency of the University of Minnesota at Minnea¬ polis. From its very inception the school has had no more cordial friend¬ ship or firmer confidence in its future from any one of its friends than from Professor Vincent. We expect a continuance of his co-operation in the larger sphere of influence to which he goes and in which he will be asso¬ ciated with Professor John H. Gray, who both at Northwestern University 182 THE NEW PROFESSION and at the University of Minnesota has been one of the most actively in¬ terested of its trustees. Miss Julia C. Lathrop, Vice-President of the School, who has been at¬ tending important Congresses abroad on Labor Legislation will be in India until February, when she will go to Japan. She returns in May. F acuity Professor Taylor gave addresses at two general sessions of the Minnesota State Conference of Charities at Crookston in November and later the State University of North Dakota Convocation. He also gave an address before the International Convention of the Young Men's Chris¬ tian Association at Toronto. On all of these occasions he held confer¬ ences with students on the opportunities for men and women to enter upon special work. As the result of a report presented by him on the “Function of the Church in the Industrial Sphere,” the National Council of Congregational Churches established a department of “Labor and Social Service,” under the management of the Brotherhoods of the churches. At a conference of representatives from seventy-two cities held at Buffalo, N. Y., Professor Taylor presented “The Social Emphasis in Religious Work.” In addition to Professor Taylor's other civic work he has served, by appointment of the Governor of Illinois, on the Illinois Mining Invest¬ gating Commission, and upon appointment by the Mayor of Chicago, as member of the Chicago Vice Commission. Miss Breckinridge presented some of the results of the inquiry as to Juveoile Delinquency and Dependency before the Chicago Women's Club, the National Conference of Charities and Corrections at St. Louis, and the Illinois State Conference of Charities at Galesburg in October, and together with Miss Abbott to the Association of Probation Officers at the Indianapolis Meeting, and also to the principals of Chicago Schools. Miss Edith Abbott presented the material of the second inquiry of the Department of Social Investigation “The Chicago Housing Problem” at the annual meeting of the Chicago Women's Aid which was given over to the subject of housing reform. Mr. Burchard addressed the Freeport Women's Club in December on the work of the School. He prepared the exhibit of the School shown at the St. Louis National Conference. This was later sent to the Galesburg conference. During the past year he has acted as Secretary of the Chicago Council for Library and Museum Extension, an official body of these in¬ stitutions in Chicago. Miss Ruth G. Nichols, graduate of the Pratt Institute Library School, 1905, Brooklyn, and for the past five years documentary reference librarian and in charge of the library of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, New York, has been secured as librarian for the school. Miss Nichols' father is pastor at Rogers Park, Chicago. Afternoon social assemblies have been given weekly by the students at the School for the purpose of helping fellowship among themselves and between them and the lecturers. At the opening of the school October 10th, Miss Vail, president of the SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NOTES 183 : * • class 1909-10 welcomed this year’s class and^Dr. Taylor gave a brief sketch of the work being done by the members of last year’s class. October 31st, a student’s reception was given in honor of Miss Mary E. Richmond, of the Russell Sage Foundation, at the close of her series of ten lectures on “The Principles and Methods of Relief;” October 27th, Miss Addams gave a reception in her honor at Hull House. Alumni To the class of 1910 is due the initiative and organization of the alumni association of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Forty former students of the school, together with several instructors, gathered at a dinner given by the class at Chicago Commons, on the evening of the closing day of their course, June 3, 1910. On this occasion the new con¬ stitution and by-laws for the organization of the association adopted, provided for two meetings a year, one at the school graduation in June, the other a fellowship dinner during the session of the National Conference. Association Officers for 1910-1911 All eligible to either regular or associate membership in general or special associations are requested to send their names and addresses to the proper secretary-treasurer, care of the school. The following officers were elected; President, Miss Gertrude Vaile, class ’10; vice-president, Sidney A. Teller, class ’09; secretary-treasurer, Miss Julia B. Stem, class ’10. Members at large of Administrative Com¬ mittee, Mrs. Mary D. Graebe, Mrs. Ida D. Stebbins, Miss Sarah West Ryder and William E. Graham. Summer School Class Organization 1909 The summer class of 1909 was the first to organize by the election of Rev. Ernest Bradley, Kentfield, California, as president, and Jake Gimbel, Vincennes, Indiana, as secretary and treasurer. This class also established the first summer school scholarships. Three promising students were thus enabled to take the course in the summer of 1910. 1910 The class of 1910 organized at a class party given at Chicago Commons The following officers were elected: Funds for two scholarships for the Summer session of 1911 were sub¬ scribed by the class. President—Arthur H. Richardson, Columbia University, New York City. Secretary-Treasurer—Miss Margia C. Morgan, 6112 Jackson Park boule¬ vard, Chicago, Ill. Personals Miss Mary Morrison of the class of 1910 will spend the coming year in Germany and France. Miss Mildred Hartman, ’10, was married July, 1910, to Mr. Arthur Mayer Wolfson, of New York City. Note: Please send your Secretary facts of interest about yourself or classmates for future numbers of the Bulletin. GENERAL INFORMATION Registry Admission —For regular students seeking the diploma courses in ele¬ mentary psychology, economics and social ethics are required as a condi¬ tion of entrance, or as additional work supplementing the curriculum of the school. The only equivalent accepted is ability tested by experience and achievement in some line of social work. Special Students —Persons not having the academic training required of candidates for the certificate, but whose practical experience and general ability prove their capacity to profit by the training offered, may be ad¬ mitted to courses which they are most capable of taking with the approval of the executive officers. Visitors —Auditors may upon application be admitted in limited num¬ bers (according to the seating capacity) to hear special lectures or courses, but will receive no credit. Summer School —In addition to all eligible for the regular courses of the year, those whose engagement in some line of charitable, social, and civic work fits them to profit by the extension courses will be admitted to the summer session. Credits —Certificates are granted on completion of seven required and three elective courses of 22 lectures with fifteen hours a week of field work. Arrangements for credit with certain academic institutions can be made under certain limitations. The Academic Year —The regular school session is divided into three, Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters, each eleven weeks in duration. Students are admitted at the beginning of any term, but the certificate is granted only at the end of the regular session. The Summer session is five weeks in duration. Tuition —22 lectures course, $15, 44 lecture course, $25. Complete diploma course, $75. The fee for each course during the Summer Session is $15. Living —Average cost of board and room a week, $6 and upwards. Temporary residence may often be secured in settlements. The Registrar will assist in arranging accomodations. Aids Scholarships —Scholarships covering free tuition for ten college students are offered for 1912, and two for the Summer School of 1911. Studentships —A limited number of research studentships, carryi ng a stipend of $350 a year and tuition, are awarded annually to graduates ol colleges in good standing. Those who have received the certificate of the school are also eligible to these appointments. Office Hours —Office Hours for conferences daily, except Saturday afternoons, Sundays and holidays, 9-12 a. m., 2-4 p. m. The President or Registrar will be accessible at these hours. Apply now for registration in the courses of next Quarter, or for further information and literature. Address, THE REGISTRAR, Suite 235, 87 Lake St., Chicago. 184