The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-17
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
WILLIAM HOWE TOLMAN'S NEW
COURSE OF UNIVERSITY LECTURES.
He VIII Talk About the High Municipal
Life to the Students OF Cornell and H.
lustrate His Talk with Lantern Slide
Photographs of Municipal Work.

NEW YORK, June l7.-[Special. THE
| authorities OF Cornell university have just
| concluded arrangements with William
| Howe Tolman of the Society For lmprov-
| ing the Condition of the Poor in this city
by the terms OF which Mr.. Holman will
next wear deliver before the Cornell stu
dents a series Of lectures on a topic hereto
fore hardly touched upon at all in univer-
sity training-yiz, the practical side OF
municipal administration.
In all there will be 10 Of these lectures,
and each will treat of special branch OF
practical city government Here is the
list:
/. 1.-THE Greater New York.
2. Department Of Street Cleaning"
8. Department Of Police. F"
4. department Of Health"
s. department of Docks.
6. Department Of Parks. T"
z. Department Of Charities.
S Homes, Not Shelters, or Improved
Housing
9. Public Baths and Washhouses.
10. Recreation Plus Education"
II. The Institutional Church, or Re-
ligion at Work"
-. "The Social Settlement.
Mr.. Tolman, as executive officer of his
society has for years enjoyed exceptional
facilities for studying the city government
of New York and also the condition of the
people who live under that government,
and, as shown by the above list, he pur-
poses going into details concerning the life
Of the people and how it can and should be
made more liyable-to coin n worldly
fbf,
lar work of the departments in charge of
these authorities.
j. Columbia Missing an Opportunity?
That the information he will give to tho
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
great deal of time and labor in preparing
himself. 1t is a pity, however, that the
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
and conditions taken cogni-
zance Of among the people with minimum
amount of trouble and waste of time.
teaching practical economies, sociology
and kindred topics are literally unriyaled
by those OF any institution OF the higher
mental training in the entire world, since
she has at her very doors, SO to speak, the
most tremendous human laboratory in ex-
istence New York city, with its won
drous combination of peoples of all races,
its contrasts of wealth and poverty, its
stupendous commercial activity and its al
most limitless expenditure of energy in
every branch Of human endeavor, has no
rival as field for the intelligent student
Of human nature, of cause and effect in
mundane affairs of the change of type
produced by varying environments and in
fact, all the larger problems that are now
adays receiving so great a share of the
thinkers and scholars attention.
That President Low and his able faculty
should overlook the unequaled opportuni-
ties to make Columbia the foremost uni
versity as regards all these things; that
they should prefer academic study of the
important problems indicated TO their in
vestigation ut first hand can be explained
on no other ground than that they have
not yet fully graspcd the situation; that
they do not understand what they are
missing.