School of Applied Ethics.

Many college students will be interested in the announcement of the summer session of the School of Applied Ethics which is to be held at some place near Boston. It will begin early in July and continue for six weeks. The matter presented will be of interest to all who are seeking careful information upon the great themes of Ethical Sociology. The work will be arranged in three departments.

I. Department of Economics, in charge of Professor H. C. Adams, Ph. D., of the University of Michigan. Professor Adams will deliver eighteen lectures on the History of Industrial Society in England and America, beginning with the Middle Ages and tracing genetically the gradual rise of those conditions in the labor world which cause so much anxiety and discussion today.

Along with this main course there will be presented parallel lectures by President E. B. Andrews, Professor F. W. Taussig, Ph. D., Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Professor J. B. Clark, Ph. D., Albert Shaw, Ph. D., Professor E. J. James, Ph. D., each man giving three lectures on a subject in which he has made special research. In addition it is expected that M. H. D. Floyd, of Chicago, will give two lectures on the industrial history of the United States.

II. Department of the History of Religions, in charge of Professor C. H. Toy. Professor Toy will offer a general course of eighteen lectures, treating the history, aims, and method of the science of History of Religions, and illustrating its principles by studies in the laws of religious progress, with examples drawn from the chief ancient religions.

The provisional scheme for the special courses in this department is as follows: "Buddhism," Professor M. Bloomfield, Johns Hopkins University; "The Babylonian-Assyrian Religion," Professor M. Jastrow, University of Pennsylvania; "Mazdeism," (not yet provided for); "Islam," Professor G. F. Moore, Andover Theological Seminary; "The Greek Religion," (not yet provided for); "The Old Norse Religion," Professor G. L. Kittredge, Harvard University.

There will probably be also a set of Sunday evening lectures in which the positions of various religious bodies, Catholics, Protestants and Jewish, will be expounded by prominent members of these bodies.

III. Department of Ethics, in charge of Professor Phelix Adler, Ph. D. He will give a course of eighteen lectures on the System of Applied Ethics, including a brief survey of the various schemes of classification adopted in ancient and modern ethical systems, the discussion of the relation of religious to moral instruction, of the development of the conscience in the child, etc. The Scheme of Duties treated will embrace Personal Ethics, Social Ethics in general, the Ethics of the family, the Ethics of the Professions, the Ethics of Politics, the Ethics of Friendship, the Ethics of Religious Association. The Scheme of Duties will be treated with special reference to the moral instruction of children.

The provisional program for the special courses in this department is as follows: Introduction to an Ethical Theory, three lectures by W. M. Salter; The treatment of the Criminal by the State, three lectures by Dr. Charlton T. Lewis; Ethics and Jurisprudence; The Ethical Ideal of the State; History of Temperance Legislation. The names of special lecturers not given will be announced later.

The tuition for the entire school, including all the lectures in the three departments, will be ten dollars. Any who may be interested in the school can obtain further information from Professor C. H. Toy.