Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-20
AT SARATOGA SPRINGS.

The Coming Big Gathering In the In
 terests of Social Science-Conneeti-
 cut Men Who are to Take Part-List
 of the Speakers and Their Subjects.
 The American Social Science association hold their annual meeting at Saratoga Springs as usual, in the first week of Sep tember, and the opening address by An drew D. White of Cornell university on the subject of '1nstruction in Social Sci ence" will be delivered Monday evening" September 1. It is the twenty-fifth ami versary of the association, the scope and character of it's objects are now well known all over the country, and it is rec ognized that its discussions do much to advance reforms in the practical con duct of life, education and society.
 The several departments have divid- ed the week among them, and that
 of education occupies Tuesday, the
 chairman, Dr. E. M. Gallaudet of
 Washington, opening the morning meet ing. The papers that follow are by Miss F. J. Dyer of Boston on College girls and working girls as factors in society" by R. T. A1chmuty of New York on Trade
 schools" by Dr. W. T. Harris, national
 commissioner of education, on Education and crime;;" by A. F. Marble of Worcester on ''The old and new in education;" by J.. H. Thiry of Long Island City on .School
 savings banks;" by President White on 3'The future of American colleges and uni versities," and by Rev. A. Mayo on ''The middle estate in the south.n On Wednes- | day the department of health, Dr. H. Holbrook Curtis of New York chairman,
 hold in their turn meetings forenoon, aft
 ernoon and evening, and there will be pre- l scented papers on Forestry" by Abner L. Train, native of Milford, Conn.,, and for merly of the New Haven Press, state for estry commissioner of New York; ''Vision I and it's Defects" by Dr. William o. Moore Newspapers" by Dr. U. w. Russell of Winchendon; Training of Attendants for the Insane," by Dr. William D. Granger of | Mount Vernon, N. Y.; 'sThe Social Sci ence Problems of Inebrity,''' by Dr. I. D. | Brothers of Hartford, Conn.,; "The Status l of Water in Modern Medicine" by pr. s. { Baruch of New York; 'Infants and Chil- ! dren and their Food" by Dr. W. B. Atkin- | son of Philadelphia; ''The tenement house I it's influence on the child" by Dr. Mary E. Herrick of New York. On Thursday, the 1 department of jurisprudence begins in the 1 morning with paper on Municipal re form, by ProfeSsOr AlbefG OnaW or Mlnne- apolis; a paper by w. M. Wins of New I York on Scientific budget making" fol 1 lows; L. Benet of New York treats of the f history of voting by ballot;" Rev. Dr. H
 L. Wayland of Philadelphia, brother oi Professor Wayland of this city, reads [ ! paper entitled "Laissez-faire run mad In the evening "Recent prison Legislation in New York; is described by Eugene
 Smith The departments of finance and
 social economy give Friday, day and even l ing, mainly to thorough discussion of the
 "Single tax' advocated by Henry
 George, although there will be il
 the morning remarks by the chairman IF. B. Sanburn of Concord, now newly
 returned from Europe; and a paper o1
 1.-The progress of the financial credit of the United States government since 1861, by
 Joseph T. Brown of New York. From 10:30 to o'clock there will be papers ant debates by President Andrews of Brow1 university, Edward Atkinson of Boston
 Professor Seligman of Columbia college
 Professor J. B. Clark of Smith college William Lloyd Garrison and James R. Car ! ret of Boston An afternoon session vii ! be held at if necessary, and in the evening
 there will be papers and debates by Profes ! sor Thomas Davidson, Commissioner w. T
 Harris, Professor Felix Adler, Louis F
 Post and Samuel B. Clark of New York
 The officers of the association will be elect
 ed at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening ant
 another business meeting will be held o1
 Thursday evening.