Charities, Vol. 10: A Weekly Review of Local and General Philanthropy; March 7, 1903 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The class Visits representative chari table and correctional institutions in Bos ton and the Vicinity, and each member makes a personal study of some one of them, upon which he sub mits a written report. There is in this department, wrote the instructor to Dr. Brackett, 'a new opportunity in university instruction. With us it has been quite without pre cedent. It summons the young men who have been imbued with the principles of political economy and of philosophy to the practical application of those studies. It ought to do what college work rarely d-oes - bring 1a young man's studies near to the problem of an American's life. Besides the three lectures each week, there are books to 'be read, and much stress is laid upon the preparation of ne ports of special researches twice in the year. These are painstaking studies on some special aspect of the general sub jects bearing on the ethics of the family, of ?charity, of the labor question, of the drink question, etc. Are estimated as one third of the year' 1s work and are carefully supervised by the instructors.
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