an international university for the study and promotion of social and industrial progress.  Its work is done on a large and thorough plan, and benefits multitudes.

The fundamental principle and purpose of the institute is to make the experience of all available for the instruction of each.  This principle is applicable alike to individuals, corporations, churches, societies, cities, States, and nations.

The institute places human experience on file.  It welcomes inquiries from anyone.  The answers aim to be complete, or, if necessary, to refer the writer to the most direct and trustworthy sources.

    It furnishes expert advice for solving local problems to
    employers of every kind, to workingmen, to municipal officers,
    to teachers and ministers, to writers, students, and others.

    Through its many foreign collaborators, the institute receives
    reports, and is in close touch with social movements abroad.

The institute also arranges for addresses and lectures, with or without lantern slides, on many important subjects, such as:  The Child Problem, History of Labor, Food, Tenements and Improved Housing, Industrial Betterment, Substitutes for the Saloon, The Newer Charity, Municipal Problems, Institutional Churches, Public Baths and Wash Houses, The Better New York.

    Its publications are:  Social Service, an illustrated monthly
    magazine; The Better New York, monographs, and leaflets.

It has a specialized and growing library, with many foreign books and pamphlets, 3,000 lantern slides, and 4,000 photographs, showing social and industrial conditions throughout the world.

    Results.—­Plans for new factories have been modified for
    comfort and health.  Result:  Better workers and better work.

    Facilities for warm lunches, baths, and recreation at noon have
    been provided.  Result:  Hold of the saloon weakened.

    Social secretaries have been appointed in factories and
    department stores.  Result:  Employees and employers in harmony.

    Ministers, lecturers, and writers have been aided in presenting
    moral questions with force and persuasiveness.  Result:  Public
    conscience aroused.

    The attention of societies and clubs has been turned to vital
    civic questions.  Result:  Energies given practical value.

Many private individuals have been encouraged to undertake local efforts of great value from which they reluctantly shrank for lack of knowledge and experience.  Result:  Individuals and communities have been both beautified.

Theodore Roosevelt said:  “This institute is fitted to render a great and peculiar service, not merely to the country but to all countries.  The possibilities of usefulness for the institute are