Professor Irving Fisher of Yale College read and criticized some of
the material on economic subjects. Professor John L. Silberling at
Dartmouth College went over the chapters dealing with the economic
problems and pointed out numerous opportunities for their improvement.

Professor Frederick A. Cleveland of Boston University read the
chapters on political problems. Professor Abbott P. Usher of the
Department of Economic History helped with several of the chapters,
while Professor Ernest R. Groves of the same institution kindly
criticized the chapter on Rural Life.

Henry Lefavour, President of Simmons College, and Sara H. Stites, Dean
of the same institution, read various of the chapters on economic and
social problems.

Stuart Queen, Director of the Boston School for Social Workers, read
the chapters on social problems, and strengthened especially the
chapter on Dependency.

At Smith College, the author is indebted to several of his colleagues,
especially, perhaps, to Professors J. S. Basset and Sidney B. Fay of
the Department of History, and to Professors Esther Lowenthal, Julius
Drachsler, Harriette M. Dilla, and to Miss McMasters, of the
Department of Economics and Sociology.

At Amherst College the author is under great obligations to Professor
J. W. Crook of the Department of Economics, and to Dr. John M. Gaus of
the Department of Government.

At the Massachusetts Agricultural College the author is indebted to