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diminishes his responsibility for the shortcomings of the book, the
author desires here to acknowledge the aid extended him.
The entire manuscript has been carefully worked over and criticized by
Clarence D. Kingsley, Chairman of the Commission on the
Reorganization of Secondary Education. Payson Smith, Commissioner
of Education for the State of Massachusetts offered valuable
suggestions in connection with certain parts of the manuscript. The
thanks of the author are also due to L. L. Jackson Assistant
Commissioner of Education for the State of New Jersey.
Invaluable aid has been received from numerous members of the
faculty of Harvard University. Parts of the text were read and criticized
by A. Lawrence Lowell, President; Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law
School; and Paul H. Hanus, Dean of the Graduate School of Education.
Professors Edward Channing and F. J. Turner, and Dr. Marcus L.
Hanson offered valuable suggestions in connection with the historical
chapters.
In the Department of Economics, helpful criticisms were contributed by
Professors F. W. Taussig, T. N. Carver, O. M. W. Sprague, C. J.
Bullock, W. Z. Ripley, and E. E. Lincoln; and by Dr. E. A. Monroe and
Dr. Mixter.
Various chapters dealing with social problems were read and criticized
by Professors Richard Cabot, James Ford, R. F. Foerster, and Dr. Niles
Carpenter of the Department of Socials Ethics, as well as by Dr. John
M. Brewer of the Department of Education. Substantial aid was
received from Professors W. B. Munro, A. B. Hart, and A. N.
Holcombe; and from Dr. A. C. Hanford, in the preparation of the
chapters on political problems.
Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman of the Department of Economics, and

Professor Lindsay Rogers of the Department of Government, in
Columbia University, contributed helpful suggestions.
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale College read and criticized some of the
material on economic subjects. Professor John L. Silberling at
Dartmouth College went over the chapters dealing with the economic
problems and pointed out numerous opportunities for their
improvement.
Professor Frederick A. Cleveland of Boston University read the
chapters on political problems. Professor Abbott P. Usher of the
Department of Economic History helped with several of the chapters,
while Professor Ernest R. Groves of the same institution kindly
criticized the chapter on Rural Life.
Henry Lefavour, President of Simmons College, and Sara H. Stites,
Dean of the same institution, read various of the chapters on economic
and social problems.
Stuart Queen, Director of the Boston School for Social Workers, read
the chapters on social problems, and strengthened especially the
chapter on Dependency.
At Smith College, the author is indebted to several of his colleagues,
especially, perhaps, to Professors J. S. Basset and Sidney B. Fay of the
Department of History, and to Professors Esther Lowenthal, Julius
Drachsler, Harriette M. Dilla, and to Miss McMasters, of the
Department of Economics and Sociology.
At Amherst College the author is under great obligations to Professor J.
W. Crook of the Department of Economics, and to Dr. John M. Gaus of
the Department of Government.
At the Massachusetts Agricultural College the author is indebted to
Kenyon L. Butterfield, President, and to Professor Newell L. Sims, for
help on the chapters dealing with social problems.
A number of teachers in the West kindly helped with various portions
of the book. At the University of Wisconsin the author is under
obligations to Professors John R. Commons and Donald D. Lescohier
of the Department of Economics.
A. S. Roberts of the University of Illinois read various of the historical
chapters.
At the University of Iowa, the author is especially grateful for the help
of Professor F. E. Horack of the Department of Government.

Professor Charles Ellwood of the University of Missouri read and
criticized the
Chapter on
the Family.
Especially valuable were the suggestions which Professor James E. Le
Rossignol of the University of Nebraska offered with respect to the
Chapters on Socialism.
At Leland Stanford University the author acknowledges his obligations
to Professor Eliot Jones of the Department of Economics.
In the United States Department of State, the author is indebted to
Arthur N. Young for a critical reading of the
Chapter on
Single Tax.
In the United States Department of Labor, the author is under
obligations to John B. Andrews for many suggestions on the
Chapter on
Industrial Relations.
Gifford Pinchot, President of the National Conservation Association,
kindly read and criticized the
Chapter on
Conservation.
Edward R. Johnstone, Superintendent of the Training School at
Vineland, N. J., kindly read and criticized several of the chapters on
social problems.
Edward T. Devine of New York City offered valuable suggestions with
regard to the
Chapter on
Dependency.
Owen R. Lovejoy, Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee,
strengthened the
Chapter on

Health in Industry.
The
Chapter on
Crime and Correction was notably improved by the suggestions of
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