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...established a minimum wage of $5.00 a day throughout all his factories, domestic and foreign, which has brought him to the front of employers of labor. His remarkable way of dealing with the many thousands of men in his employ has won him a foremost position as a practical sociologist. His interest in prison reform has led him to offer jobs in his factories to men just out of prison, and he now employs 600 ex-convicts from Sing Sing prison...
...promote good comradeship and make the afternoon pleasant for men who stay in Cambridge over Sunday. Other plans under consideration, are a course of lectures dealing with social service from various points of view,--for example, from the point of view of the settlement worker, the economist, the sociologist, etc; and a Phillips Brooks House fellowship in social service, similar in general plan to the South End House Fellowship and the Robert Treat Paine Fellowship administered by the University...
From a careful observation of the life of the common people the sociologist acquires the proper point of view for his problem. As the development of medical science has resulted in great discoveries, so the application of the scientific interest to social problems will undoubtedly bring great advances of vital importance to our "democratic experiment." As the university settlement aims to be a neutral ground where all the varied types of our society can meet on the basis of self-respecting humanity, the needs and dangers of our complicated social life can be better met and understood...
...professors, especially that of the late Professor Dunbar, by his remarkable work. During the next two years he studied abroad on a special fellowship established for his benefit by the Slater Fund, and while at the University of Berlin was the favorite student of Professor Schnoller, the great sociologist. In 1895 he returned here to take his doctor's degree in political science. He became professor at Wilberforce University, Ohio, and was soon after appointed by the University of Pennsylvania a special investigator in sociology. Later he was called to Atlanta University as professor of history and economics. Mr. Booker...
...thought and work. Besides the opening meeting tonight, the following addresses have been arranged for November and December: November 3 Rev. W. W. Fenn, on "liberal Religion:" November 17-President Eliot, on "Religion from an Educator's Point of View:" December 15-professor Carver, on "Religion from a Sociologist's Point of View...