542 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
The university, through the efforts and generosity of its friends, is possessed of a unique equipment for study purposes in these lines. This equipment comprises a large collection of railroad, municipal, and school bonds ; of stocks of all kinds ; of letters of credit, drafts, foreign bills of exchange, bills of lading, checks, inclosures, statements, insurance policies, trust certificates, notes, mortgages, and all the neces- sary forms of business paper; also collections of coins illustrative of various periods in our monetary history, foreign coins, and scrip ; also sets of maps and charts, and a Kiepert-Commercial globe 80 cm. in diameter. Ample facilities for statistical work are provided, and a seminary room set apart for the use of laboratory material, docu- ments, etc., is always open to advanced students. It is the policy of the department to make the statistical investigations and research work of advanced students contribu- tory to the permanent equipment of the department, thus enriching the facilities from year to year with material of scientific and pedagogical value.
DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY. PROFESSOR STONER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SOUTHER.
5. Lectures on the industrial and artistic evolution of society. History of the early races considered with special reference to the development in culture gained through handwork. Practice work : Preparations of a series of models comprising the different stitches used in plain hand-sewing ; ornamental stitches and simple embroidery. One lecture and three practice periods each week.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
PROFESSOR CLARK, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HAGERTV.
SOCIOLOGY GROUP.
2. The history of industrial society. A general view of the evolution of industrial society ; involving a study of the manorial and guild systems ; of the rise of class interest ; the formation of trading companies ; land-holding ; the development of capitalistic enterprise and the economic legislation and theories that grew out of these conditions, with special reference to England. Lectures and assigned readings.
3. Industrial and financial history of the United States. A complete survey of American industries, financial resources, and policies.
4. Transportation. A study of the development and present economic status of roads, canals, and railroads in their relation to industry and to the state.
5. Practical problems : immigration, money, land.
6. Practical problems : railroads, tariff, crises.
7. Practical problems : of labor and capital.
II. Sociology. Text-books, lectures, and original investigations. Through the kindness of the various officers of the Godman Guild-House, opportunity will be pro- vided students in this course of doing practical work at the guild. The course, as to time and subject-matter, will be arranged to suit those in the city who may wish scientific training along the lines of charity and philanthropic work, and the state board of charities as well as the officers of the Associated Charities of the city are enlisted in the work of this course. First term : Giddings's Elements of Sociology. Second term : Henderson's Dependent, Defective and Delinquent Classes.
