Excerpt from Charities, Vol. 10: A Weekly Review of Local and General Philanthropy; March 7, 1903 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.