New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-09
Social WORK SCHOOL.
Institution fer PhiLanthromc In
structiOn To Be Established

A permanent school for social workers will be
established in this city in the fall, with curricu
lum the like OF which has never been in Amer
ican college university. The announcement IS
the result Of seven years movement TO raise the
standards of phanthropic work. Since 1897 workers
from all parts of the United States have come
together for six weeks each summer attend the
sessions of the Summer School il Philanthropc
Work carried by the New-York Charity Organ
izStion Society The sessions being held.
with more than thirty members, representing
dozen different States. The permanent school is
TO be established by the committee philanthropo
education The director Of the schoo! will be Ed
ward T. Devine and he will have associated with
him Mrs. Anna Garln Spencer, director during the
last year Of the winter in philanthropy and
Alexander Johnson, secretary Of the National Con-
ference Of Charities and Corrections.
Among the lecturers will be Homer Folks, OF the
State Charities Aid Association: w. H. Aller. OF
the Association for Improving the Condition Of the
Poor; S J. Barrows. Of the New-York Prison As
ISOLATION; the Rev. T. H. Wines Frank Tucker,
Of the Proyident Loan Society; Lawrence WELLER,
First Deputy Commissioner of the Tenement House
Commission in the Low administration; Mrs. Flor
ence Kelley. OF the National Consumers League;
Professor s N. Lindsay. Commissioner of Educa-
ton of Porto Rico; Miss Mary +. Richmond, OF
Philadelphia and DR.. Katherine B. Davis. Of the
Bedford Reformatory for Women
The course will open October 3. in the United
Charities Building. Sessions will be held daily One
OF the most frequent requests made to the large
competent people act secretaries and agents
OF charity societies. workers IN institutions, secre
taros Of committees. etc. There has hitherto been
no place where a thorough training could be had
The enrolment in the course will be limited
TO people who have had experience or college train
ing that makes it probable that the school will be
OF service to them.
The instruction will include all the principal forms
OF charitable activity, child helping agencies. the
care OF needy families hospitals and hygiene, the
prevention of disease. reformatory methods and
probation laws sanitary housing, preventive social
work irnmigra ton problems the States charities
and the anti tuberculosis campaign. On these and
other subjects there will be lectures. followed by
class work and observation among the charitable
institutions societies of the city. 1t will be the
object Of the school 10 equip students for such
places as that Of welfare secretary private al
snoner. tenement house inspector and assistant in
institution and church work well rs for the more
frequently called for places of agent of the Charity
Organization Society. visitor OF a childrenS ala
society assistant IL a refOrmatOry or asylum.
To The class teaching and OOserva ton viii be
added practical experience in the field, which VIII
bear the same relation TO the academic work that
hospital dispensary clinics bear TO the lectures
of the medical college. The students taking this
course will nave opportunities IN the central and
district offices Of the Charity Organization Society
of New York for practical work under experienced