The Prescott daily news., 1916-04-04
. ,r1oN FOR SOCIAL WORK

.,,,t progress in training for a
 sesnI .tassion, that of social work,
 lp..;hed p,;le by Miss Edith Abbott Of
 dsssi'0s E,.o Chicago, in a publication
 ss"sd np1,l' by the Bureau of Eduea-
 ss'th ss the Department of the h.
 le, ,.,raing to Miss Abbott there are
 sre professional training schools
 .n,is n workers, the first profes-
 ;, ,I' school of philanthropy having
 n '' established at New York in
 The example of New York in
 '.di,e the first school for social
 Is' .p.rs was quickly followed by Chi
 ' and Boston. In Chicago the
 .',monts took the lead in this work
 .sa Charity Organization Society
 \ done in New York Clty' ih i'oo
 Graham Taylor, of Chicago Com
 Bp, and Miss Julia C. Lathrop' of
 pr House, in cooperation with the
 Tension department of the Univer-
 If Chicago, organized lecture |rr,es iii practical work, which be- |ne in the following year the Chi
 ,O Institute of Social Science, and
 lsN the Chicago School of Civics N Philanthropy. In 1904, the Bos- r School for Social Workers was lcsnized under the joint auspices of |srard University and Simmons knege. In St. Louis a School of kcal Economy, which originated as series of round table meetings for Ial social workers, was organized 1905; it was affiliated at one time kh the University of Missouri and |ter with Washington University. Eniary, in Philadelphia, courses of ktures on the practical aspects of brsl wok became in 1910 a fully or Enized training school, which is now Iled the Pennsylvania School for Edal Service
 Two events have had much to do nth the successful growth of these thools, according to Miss Abbott. he first is the series of grants of ioney made by the Russell Sage which was organized and idoved for "the improvement of eial and living conditions in the nted States" In the autumn of @7 the trustees of the Sage Foun- ltOn made what might be called lbstartal grants in aid" to the UT professional schools of philan- fOpy then organized-those in New lrk, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis. le grants to the schools were in e first instance specifically given [ organizing departments of social 'estigatlOn. no doubt in the belief at the work of Investigating and ldylng adverse social, conditions snt be Tn some measure delegated the foundation to the schools of lanthropy. The Russell Sage Foun- uOn grants" meant for all the lools the appointment of additional MuerS ot the faculty, and through iacllltles for granting student pS' ielIowshlps, or scholarships to 'nllslng university trained men and men, an improvement in the quail Ol the student body.
 mother fact of importance in the en' growth of the schools was the srous !, endowment of the New TX school of Philanthropy during year lSO9-lO by the will of the , 'Onn S' Kennedy, of New York, "llcn the school was assured of ! income from a sum which will ulti- eiy amount to more than a mill n aOlars' The endowment of one ''e professional schools, giving it assured position of permanency .I growth, has been of assistance all the other schools in sustaining ,1S slO"lng public confidence in the ,i.. ,%@nce Of their work and the ne- | ins TOT providing them with the '4un' un needed to do that work aD,' '"a'eVer has made it possible