Notes of interest to the readers of the Journal should be in the hands of the editor of "News and Notes" not later than the tenth of the month preceding publication.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIOLOGY

The Journal has received the first issue of the Journal of Applied Sociology, published by the Southern California Sociological Society. While this new publication appears for the first time under this name, it combines the former publications of the Society, the Monographs and the News Notes which have hitherto been published separately, and contains specially contributed articles and book reviews. The editor of the journal is Emory S. Bogardus, head of the department of sociology of the University of Southern California. The associate editors are Clarence E. Rainwater, William C. Smith, and Melvin J. Vincent all of whom are members of the department.

The articles in the first issue of the journal are "A New Adventure" by Alice M. Fesler; "A Justifiable Individualism" by Frank W. Blackmar; "Educational Work in North Carolina" by Eugene C. Branson; "Problems of Self-Government at the George Junior Republic, Chino, California" by George S. Sumner; and "Outdoor Relief Work in Los Angeles County" by D. F. McLaughlin.

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY

Mr. E. F. Bamford of the University of Southern California has been appointed instructor in sociology in Baylor University. Mr. Bamford, in addition to relieving Professor Dow of several divisions of the introductory course, will offer courses in Cities, Surveys, Social Pathology, Child Welfare, etc. In this work field trips, investigations, and the practical study of problems will be stressed.

Professor G. S. Dow offered courses in Rural Sociology and Modern Methods of Treatment of Poverty and Crime in the first term of the summer session of the University of Texas.

Mr. Guy B. Johnson and Mr. Harold Matthews, student instructors during last year, are doing graduate work in the University of Chicago and the University of Kansas respectively.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Social Behavior and Human Progress is offered as one of the evening extension courses of Boston University. It is to be given by Ernest R. Groves, department of social science, College of Liberal Arts. The course will consider man's social behavior in its relation to the problem of social improvement. It aims to give teacher, parent, student, and citizen a survey of the contemporary thinking and undertakings that throw light upon the task of advancing individual and social standards of life. The course consists of thirty topics organized under three main heads as follows: (a) the background of social behavior and some control problems; (b) recent sociological thinking with reference to social progress; (c) recent contributions to social progress.

The Sociological Society of the College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, begins its second year with an address by Robert Kelso, President, National Council for Social Work, on "The Right Interest of Our Young Citizenship in Social Work."

CLARK UNIVERSITY

Professor Frank Hamilton Hankins, who has been studying and lecturing in Europe during the academic year 1920-21, has returned as head of the sociology department. He is giving courses this year on General Sociology, Nature versus Nurture, Theories of Social Reconstruction, and a seminar on the Social Origins and the Significance of Patriotism. A new course has been introduced this year on Criminology and Penology, which is given by Professor Harry E. Barnes of the department of history.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Shelby M. Harrison gave a course in Principles and Methods of Community Leadership in the summer session (1921). The advance announcement said of the course: "This course develops the idea that the most effective leadership in community undertakings is based, first, upon a knowledge of community problems and, second, upon an acquaintance with the experiences already gained by communities in organizing to meet local problems. The course therefore will present community conditions as we now find them, and it will discuss what may be done and is being done about them."

IOWA STATE COLLEGE

The department of rural sociology is in charge of Professor G. H. von Tungeln, assisted by assistant professor H. B. Hawthorn, J. F.

Thaden, assistant on the research staff, and a research fellow. The work of the department is carried on in three fields: (1) collegiate instruction in undergraduate and graduate work; (2) research; and (3) extension work.

The research section of the department has published the following reports of surveys: Circular 24, The Rural Social Survey as a Guide to Rural Community Progress (out of print). Bulletin 184, A Rural Social Survey of Orange Township, Blackhawk County. Bulletin 193, A Rural Social Survey of Lone Tree Township, Clay County. There are now in preparation manuscripts for bulletins on the following: (1) Rural Social Survey of Hudson Consolidated School District; (2) A Rural Social Survey of the Orange Consolidated School District; (3) A Rural Social Survey of the Jessup School District; (4) A Rural Social and Farm Tenantry Survey of 4 Townships in Cedar County; (5) A Rural Social and Tenanty Survey of Jackson Township, Warren County; (6) A Study of an Iowa Village in Its Agricultural Setting; (7) A Study of the Paternal Parental Occupation of Iowa State College Students, 1910-21; and a Study of the Occupations Entered by Iowa State College Agricultural Graduates, 1910-21; (8) An Analytical and Critical Study of Rural Social Surveys in the United States.

The department will hold its regular Annual Rural Life Conference in connection with the Farm and Home Week of the Iowa State College January 30 to February 4, 1922.

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Mr. Seba Eldridge of the Rockford College has accepted appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas, and Mr. Delbert Mann has been elected as instructor.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

Mr. James A. Quinn, A.M., University of Missouri, 1921, has been appointed instructor in sociology in the University of Missouri. Mr. Quinn took his A.B. degree at the University of Missouri in 1917, was for two years assistant to the superintendent of the Provident Association of St. Louis, and was graduate scholar in sociology at the University of Missouri, 1920-21.

Mr. Owen Howells, B.S., Colorado State College of Agriculture, 1913, has been appointed extension assistant professor of rural sociology in the University of Missouri. Mr. Howells is a graduate of the New York School of Social Work, at which he spent two years, 1919-21.

Mr. Howells will devote his entire time to field work in rural community organization. His appointment now makes the staff in sociology at the University of Missouri number five persons. The total enrolment in courses in sociology in the University of Missouri at Columbia this term is 615. Besides the Department at Columbia, the University of Missouri maintains in St. Louis the Missouri School of Social Economy with a staff of five instructors.

The Macmillan Company announce the publication early next year of a book entitled "The Reconstruction of Religion" by Professor Charles A. Ellwood. The announcement states that the volume is a frank attempt to base religion in its practical aspects upon the results of the social sciences. The chapters include: "The Religious Revolution"; "The Social Significance of Religion"; "The Social Significance of Christianity"; "Our Semi-Pagan Civilization"; "Positive Christianity, the Religion of Humanity"; "The Essentials of a Social Religion"; "Religion and Economic Life"; "Religion and Political Life"; "Religion and Social Pleasure"; "The Opportunity of the Church."

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

State Reconstruction Studies is the title of the new Yearbook of the North Carolina Club at the University. It is the work of thirty club committee chairmen and their cabinets during the year 1919-20. The investigations cover the economic, social, and civic problems of the state.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA

Dr. George R. Davies has returned to the University of North Dakota, Department of Sociology, as full professor. He has been teaching in the department of economics, Princeton University, as assistant professor during the past two years. Much of his attention there was in the field of statistics and he conducted all of the graduate work in this subject during his last year there.

Professor Davies is preparing a work on statistics, especially in the field of economic statistics for college class work.

Professor John M. Gillette is preparing a new volume on rural sociology intended as a text in higher institutions of learning.

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Two assistants have been added to our department this year, W. J. Blackburn and Perry Denune. Dr. E. L. Clarke's rank has been raised from instructor to assistant professor. Miss Agnes Drury has been raised from assistant to instructor. There are three teachers in the

department of full professorial rank, J. E. Hagerty, C. C. North, and F. E. Lumley. The graduate course on social administration announced in the graduate bulletin has been deferred one year.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Professor Carl Kelsey is absent on a year's leave and is making an investigation of the economic, political, and social conditions in Haiti and San Domingo for the American Academy of Social and Political Science. He will return for the second term.

SIMMONS COLLEGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

A new book, Social Work in the Light of History, by Stuart A. Queen is now being published by Lippincott.

The Central Council of Social Agencies of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has invited the director of the Simmons College School of Social Work to give an extension course on the philosophy of social work. This course will be given in New Bedford for the benefit of social workers in that city.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

The University of Chicago Press announces the publication of a book "The Play Movement in the United States" by Assistant Professor Clarence E. Rainwater. As director of Hamilton Park Recreation Center, Chicago, 1910-17, instructor in playground methods, University of Chicago, 1913-17, dean of the American College of Physical Education, Chicago, 1917-19, he brought to his study of the playground movement the results of practical experience and a sociological point of view. The material in the volume is organized into six chapters: "Introduction," "Origin of the Play Movement," "Stages of the Play Movement," "Transitions in the Play Movement," "Trend of the Play Movement," and "Conclusion."

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

Professor G. S. Dow, of Baylor University, taught in the first summer term.

WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

Dr. Maurice R. Davie, for the past two years instructor in sociology, has resigned to accept the position of assistant professor of the science of society at Yale University. During the summer of 1919-20 Dr. Davie compiled the Cleveland Directory of Community Activities.