SOCIOLOGICAL MISCELLANY.
Mr. Charles W. Spencer, graduate scholar in Sociology in the University of Chicago, '92-'93, and in History in '93-94, also graduate student in Columbia, '94-'95, has been elected Associate Professor of History and Political Economy in Colgate University, and will assume his duties in September.
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Dr. Albert Schaeffle is preparing a new edition of his monumental work Bau und Leben des socialen Körpers. It will be thoroughly revised and reduced to two volumes. The publishers hope to issue not only the original, but French and English translations, in the Spring of 1896. Dr. Schaeffle will also contribute at an early date to this Journal.
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The annual "Baptist Congress," which will hold its sessions this year at Providence, R. I., November 12 to 14, announces as a part of its programme "The Relation of the State to Semi-public Corporations and their Employers," to be discussed by Hon. Thomas E. Barkworth, Jackson, Mich.; Professor Albion W. Small, LL.D., University of Chicago; and Rev. Wallace H. Butrick, Albany, N. Y.
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While great success has followed the organization of economic and political studies in certain foreign universities, no similar provision has been made for these subjects in the United Kingdom. It is now proposed to attempt to remedy this deficiency. Funds have been placed at the disposal of trustees for the establishment of a London School of Economics and Political Science which will be organized under the direction of Mr. W. A. S. Hewins, M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford, and which begins work in October 1895.
The London school starts with the coöperation of all the economists and students of political science in the United Kingdom and with the support of the Society of Arts and, on its commercial side, of the London Chamber of Commerce. It will be organized to meet the needs of different classes of students. The advanced courses will
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