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8. The pulpit as an educational force.
9. Improved postal, telegraph, and telephone facilities as factors in the
spread of knowledge.
10. Governmental bureaus for the collection and spread of knowledge.
11. International commerce in knowledge.
12. Comparison of educational institutions of different nations. C. ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNIQUE.
1. In pedagogical methods.
2. In pedagogical apparatus, text-books, etc.
3. In co-ordination of educational institutions.
4. In progress toward rational co-ordination of studies.
5. In educational finances.
6. In administration of educational institutions.
7. In compulsory education.
DIVISION V. ACHIEVEMENT IN ESTHETIC CREATION AND IN POPULAR APPRECIATION OF ART PRODUCTS.
A. LITERATURE. .
B. SCULPTURE.
C. PAINTING.
D. Music.
E. ARCHITECTURE.
F. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.
G. THE MINOR ARTS.
DIVISION VI. ACHIEVEMENT IN RELIGION.
A. In defining standards of religious authority.
B. In shifting center of religious interests from another life to present life.
C. In enlarged religious tolerance, with distinction between religion and theology.
D. In definite religious tendencies, promoted by the example of eminent religious men of the century; e. g., Pope Leo XIII., Cardinal Newman, Phillips Brooks, Spurgeon, Moody, General Booth, etc., etc.
E. In federation of religious effort.
F. In religious extension.
G. In local, national, and international enlargement of the sphere of religious activities.
The problem of understanding our social situation may be expressed as the problem of making a better outline than the above of the facts that have a bearing upon individual and social welfare at the present moment.
ALBION W. SMALL.
THE UNIVERSITY OP CHICAGO.
