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TRADE UNION COLLEGE OPENED

Boston School Aims at Labor Progress.--Lecturers Include Many Prominent Members of Faculty.

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A Trade Union College for laboring men has just been opened in the High School of Practical Arts, Boston. Professors and instructors from the University. Yale and other institutions of the country are to give lectures. Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School, William Z. Ripley, Professor of Economics; R. F. A. Hoernle, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Zachariah Chaffee, Assistant Professor of Law; Samuel E. Morrison, lecturer on History; Francis B. Sayre, lecturer on International Law, Harold J. Laski, lecturer on History and Government; and Herbert Feis, tutor in Economics; are among the men from the University who will give instruction. The purpose for which this new college has been founded is "to make directly accessible to working men and working women the study of subjects that will further the progress of labor."

The courses are open to all trade unionists of the American Federation of Labor and members of their immediate families for the nominal sum of $2.50 for each course. Among the subjects to be taken up in the spring term are English, labor organization, law, government, economics and physics.

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