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the training offered in the United States. At Harvard the advanced 

 courses for the year 1892-93 are as follows : — 



Full courses — 



Economy Theory — Examination of Selections from leading writers. 

 The Principles of Sociology — Development of the Modern State and 



its Social Functions. 

 The Social and Economic Condition of Working Men in the United 



States and in other Countries. 

 The Economic History of Europe and America, to 1763. 



Half courses — 



History of Tariff Legislation in the United States. 



Railway Transportation. 



The Theory and Methods of Taxation. 



History of Economic Theory down to Adam Smith. 



History of Financial Legislation in the United States. 



At Columbia College the courses are as follows : — 



Elements of Political Economy. 



Historical and Practical Economics. 



History of Economic Theories. 



Science of Finance. 



Science of Statistics. 



Railway Problems. 



Financial History of the United States. 



Tariff and Industrial History of the United States. 



Communism and Socialism. 



Taxation and Distribution. 



Sociology. 



At Cornell the lectures which succeed the purely elementary ones are 

 not quite so full, but consist of courses on — 



Economic Reforms. 



Finance. 



Economic Legislation. 



Statistics. 



Economic History. 



Financial History of the United States. 



There are few universities which do not offer some courses beyond 

 these on elementary theory and history. As a rule, finance and some 

 other branch of Applied Economics are added. Where graduate schools 

 have been established, as, for instance, at Harvard and at Michigan, the 

 study proceeds very much on the lines indicated above, so far as the 

 former is concerned. At Michigan, the advanced courses are distinguished 

 into intermediate and graduate. Intermediate courses treat of the follow- 

 ing : — The Transportation Problem. Principles of the Science of Finance. 

 Theory of Si atistics. History and Principles of Currency and Banking. 

 History of the Tariff in the United States. History and Theory of Land 

 Tenure and Agrarian Movements. Industrial and Commercial Develop- 

 ment of the United States. History and Theory of Socialism and Com- 

 munism. History of Political Economy. Graduate courses : — Critical 



