The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-16
LECTURES To BE ILLUSTRATED.

list:
1. "The Greater New York"
2. department of Street Cleaning"
y. department of Police"
4. Department of Health"
8 Department of Docks
8. Department of Parks"
a. Department of Charities"
8. Homes, Not Shelters, or Improvan
Housing"
0. Public Baths and Washhouses."
10. Recreation Plus Education"
III. Tho Institutional Church, or Re.
ligion at Work.
IL. THE Social Settlement"
Mr.. Tolman, as executive officer of his
society has for years enjoyed exceptional
facilities fur studying the city government
OF New York and also the condition of the
people who live under that government,
and, as shown by tho above list, he pur-
poses going into details concerning the life
Of the people and how it can and should be
mode moro livable-to coin q worldly
municipal authorities as well as the rcgu-
lar work Of the departments In charge of
these authorities.
IL Columbia Missing an Opportunity?
That the information he will give to the
Comedians who include his lectures in
their course will be enlightening goes
without saying almost, and there is no
doubt whatever that he has expended q
great deal of time and labor in preparing
himself. 1t IL "a pity, however, that the
lectures are not to be delivered at Column
bia university instead Of Cornell, since
Columbia Is so located that the students
could visit the city departments described
and study the actual workings Of the city
departments and conditions taken cogni-
zance of among the people with q minimum
amount OF trouble and waste Of time.
Columbia's opportunities in the way of
teaching practical economies, sociology
and kindred topics are literally unrivaled
by those of any institution of tho higher |
mental training In the entire world, since
she has at her very doors, sc to speak, the |
most tremendous human laboratory In ex. |
New York city, with its won
orous combination of peoples of all races, |
It's contrasts of wealth and poverty, its
commercial activity and its al
most limitless expenditure of energy in
'vcry branch of human endeavor, has no
'ival as a field for III intelligent student
IL IN nature, of cause and effect in
undane affairs, of tho change Of type
by varying environments and In
act, all the larger problems that are now
days receiving so great a share of the
hinker's and scholars attention.
That President Low and his able faculty
Mould overlook the uncqualed~ opportuni-
les to make Columbia the foremost uni
ersity as regards all these things; that
hey should prefer academic study of the
Important problems indicated to their In
nStfnntfnV, a - GrSt Ia<l -.- L.
n no other ground than that they have
OF yet fully grasped the situation: that
hey do not understand what they are
Mr.. Tolman's Preparations.
But to return to Mr.. Tolman and his
for the important series Of
he Is to deliver at Cornell
lie has properly mado n special study Of
ew York's municipal departments in
aking ready for the first seven lectures.
hes.irst, ON 1.-The Greater New York"
III be a rapid but onc tho less profound
urinary of what the great congerics Of
WINS at the mouth Of the Hudson really
In the second lecture much account
Ill be taken of Colonel Warnings methods :
keeping the streets and alleys and ave-
bore really free from dirt. In the J
ird the peace keeping machinery of this
potentially, and as a rule actually, the !
st In the world, will he exploited to q !
UGH greater extent than that of any other J
the worlds great cities. But tho fifth
In which docks are to be taken up, J
III deal extensively with the docks of q
and other important ports whore j
cks arc better constructed than they arc }
70, and SO on through the entire series. q
TO the thoroughness Of the lectures 1 @
, not 80 competent 10 speak az I would
were ! familiar with the subject matter
sreof, but IL IN we'll within bounds TO
Y that the series'of photographs To illus
ite the lecture on the police department :
me constitutes almost n liberal educn. I,
n on police matters. and n similar de- :,
iption of the quality Of the photographs !.
lstrating the other lectures would not !,
amiss. IL
MT. Toiman.
Mr.. Tolmen Is still a young man and '
IN oil the enthusiasm of n young man, :,
his enthusiasm IL tempered by broad =
! deep culture m years OF study, both ;,
and practical. | have never heard y
name OF his alma mater, but L under :
nd that he took "a severe postgraduate ~
at Johns Hopkins university, where "
attachments Won the highest respect. %
rs manager OF the Association For I'm "
wing the Condition of the Poor MIR. W
imam has been cminently practical, i'm. %
ducing many features into the work OF W
organization that have wrought much W
lciit Ia oil concerned. One of these. el
ich has been eagerly taken advantage "
by hundreds OF persons out OF employ ~
NJ here. H. the scheine providing for the "
Of vecant lots. It's success and ca
changes ~ has brought about I'm the
thods OF dispensing charity hero have W
tten bcen dvclt upon at length I'm print la
{ they need not be spoken " nj length a
his plncc. n