Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
SUMMER SCHOOL OF ETHICS.
Sessions I'm Connection with Univer-
sity of w~isconsin.

Sessions I'm Connection with Univer-
sIty of wisconsin.
The American Ethical union will hold it's
annual sessions in connection with the
summer school Of the University of Wis
cousin, at Madison, beginning July s.
Heretofore, the school has had three de-
partments-ethics, history Of religion and
political economy. The directors Of these
departments have been Profs. Felix Adler
Of New York. c. II. Toy of Harvard and
II. c. Adams of Michigan. Its faculty OF
lecturers has included the most eminent
thinkers and leaders Of the day. and has
contributed much toward conscious con-
struction efforts in the solution Of the
most vital problems confronting American
civilization. C~lergymen, teachers. social
settlement workers. charity organization
workers, have attended it's sessions in large
numbers. The movement has rendered
valuable service TO the school,, the Sunday
school, to social institutions and the church.
This years meeting in Madison will con-
fine its lecture curriculum to the problems
Of general and special moral training, and
to the ethical movement. The broader and
more extended lecture courses in general
education, philosophy, ethics, economy,
sociology, political science. and history may
be taken in the university summer session.
The university courses will be formal and
systematic, after the usual university
method. The school of ethics courses will
consist Of single lectures and series OF five
or six lectures by a large and varied fac
ulty Of lecturers These lecturers are all
eminent persons, among whom are william
NJ. Slater. lecturer in philosophy in Har-
ward, and Chicago universities; Nathaniel
Schmidt, the eminent l~inquist, scholar and
| critic prOfpguOr In Cprna11 npi4yarc{tu. Ian.
Adams of Hull House, Chicago; Anna
Garlin Spencer of the School Of Phllan-
thropy in New York City. Henry Neumann
OF the College of the City of New York,
John Lovejoy Elliott of Hudson Guild. New
York; Henry Moskowitz Of the Downtown
Ethical society, New York: Leslie w.
Sprague Of the Brooklyn Ethical society,
and Percival Chubb Of the New York
Ethical society.
Prof. Felix Adler, dean of the school,, is
filling the Roosevelt professionally at the
university Of Berlin this year, and, there
fore, will not be in Madison this summer.
Several OF the other eminent members Of
the School of Ethics faculty serving on
the advisory council. Prof. Edwin r. A.
Seligman Of Columbia university, and Mr..
s. Burns Weston, editor of the Interna-
tional Journal of Ethics. Philadelphia, may
nv NOiilC W NAdNlSOn' u ne SCHOOL Will
enjoy the full benefit of their counsel.
Students who come to Madison for the
summer have rare opportunities for the COM
bination of study and recreation. Further
more, they may come not alone for acadc-
mic discOurses and library researches, but
also to observe and study the actual work
ings of some Of the advanced state institu-
tions Of the present time, which are nov
dealing with some of therfr rffrfrfrrfrr
dealing first hand with some of the most
fundamental problems that confront the
American people.
The ethical movement is a synthetic and
constructive movement towards betterment,
individual and social. 1t can cooperate
with all existing agencies at work for good.
In the language of one of the foremost
leaders, its purpose is we'll expressed:
I'VE are not called upon to defend the
ism, atheism, or agnosticism. 1t is moral
agreement we are after, not religious agree
ment or anti-reHgious agreement. For us
the one supreme aim is lifting human life
to higher spiritual levels"