Dr. J. R. Brackett '83, director of the new School for Social Workers, outlined the aims and methods of the school yesterday morning in Harvard 6, in connection with the regular lecture in Philosophy 5.

Schools for social workers, he said, have recently been established in London, Chicago, and in New York, where the work has been especially successful, though the course of study lasted only six weeks, in the summer. The School for Social Workers to be conducted jointly by Harvard University and Simmonds College will aim to give a more extended and systematic instruction in philanthropy for a few willing students who desire to do scientific work, and to uplift both themselves and others. It is planned to put the school on a high academic standard, to give its students a certain amount of technical training, under the direction of practical philanthropic workers, and a broad outlook over the whole field of social work. The school will open early next October and close the first of June, and the course will include one year's study, in which each regular student, not, in addition to the practical work, will attend two hours of recitations three times a week, will do prescribed reading, and write a thesis on some special topic for research.

The school is intended chiefly for graduate students, but a few special students, actively engaged in sociological work and devoting only a part of their time to study, may be admitted. For admission, the approval of Dr. J. R. Brackett, the director, must be obtained.

In preparation for the school, as well as for those particularly interested in philanthropy, Dr. Brackett will give during the last half of next year a course--Philosophy 19--on practical problems of charity, public aid, and correction, open only to Seniors and graduates who take or have taken Philosophy 5, and have obtained the approval of the instructor.

Those who think of entering the school may obtain further particulars of Dr. J. R. Brackett, whose present address in 8 Park street, Boston.