Mr. Thomas M. Osborne, president of the George Junior Republic Association, will speak on the work and needs of the Republic at the First Parish Vestry Church street, this evening at 8 o'clock.

The Republic, situated in Freeport, New York, is a settlement of boys and girls from the tenement districts of the great cities--a settlement conducted as a miniature republic, with a congress, courts of justice, and law officers by which the citizens govern themselves. Farming and the keeping of stores and hotels are carried on by the citizens on the basis of a currency of the Republic which when the citizens leave is exchanged for usable articles of one kind or another. As an experiment in training the boys and girls of the poorer classes in practical citizenship, and in developing in character and industrial ability those who would otherwise have been sent to reformatories, the Republic has proved eminently successful.

Members of the University interested in Social Service but not familiar with the interesting work of the George Junior Republic and its success will be able to learn many new facts from Mr. Osborne. It is particularly desirable that College students interested in charities should give their attention to work of this kind which concerns the making of permanently useful citizens out of apparently unpromising characters. One of the boy citizens will probably also speak this evening.