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faint praise, and nothing more came of it until the 'follow- 

 ing year, when, being called to deliver the annual address 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, I wrought its main 

 points in^o a plea for education in relation to politics. 

 This was widely circulated with some effect, and I now 

 brought a modest proposal in the premises before our 

 trustees. Its main feature was that Mr. Frank B. San- 

 born, a graduate of Harvard, Secretary of the Board of 

 Charities of the State of Massachusetts and of the Social 

 Science Association of the United States, should be called 

 to give a course of practical lectures before the senior 

 class during at least one term, his subjects to be such as 

 pauperism, crime (incipient and chronic), inebriety, lu- 

 nacy, and the best dealing of modern states with these; 

 also that his instructions should be given, not only by 

 lectures, but by actual visits with his classes to the great 

 charitable and penal institutions of the State, of which 

 there were many within easy distance of the university. 

 For several years, and until the department took a differ- 

 ent form, this plan was carried out with excellent results. 

 Professor Sanborn and his students, beginning with the 

 county almshouse and jail, visited the reformatories, the 

 prisons, the penitentiaries, and the asylums of various sorts 

 in the State ; made careful examinations of them ; drew up 

 reports upon them, these reports forming the subject of 

 discussions in which professor and students took earnest 

 part ; and a number of young men who have since taken 

 influential places in the State legislature were thus in- 

 structed as to the best actual and possible dealings with all 

 these subjects. I still think that more should be done in 

 all our universities to train men by this method for the 

 public service in this most important and interesting field, 

 and also in matters pertaining generally to State, county, 

 and city administration. 



Closely connected with this instruction was that in po- 

 litical economy and history. As to the first of these, I 

 had, some years before, seen reason to believe that my 

 strong, and perhaps bigoted free-trade ideas were at least 



