In December, I913, the American Sociological Society met in Minneapolis. One session of this meeting, arranged in rather impromptu manner after the preliminary program had appeared, was devoted to the place of sociology in the training of teachers, and resulted in the appointment of a committee of three to investigate the subject. In the spring of 19I4 the chairman of this committee, John M. Gillette, of the University of North Dakota, sent out a questionnaire to I35 colleges and universities. His report, made at the meeting of the American Sociological Society at Princeton, New Jersey, in December, 19I4, is contained in Volume IX of the Society's Publications. Meanwhile the two normal-school members of the committee arranged with the officers of the National Education Association to have a round table of the Department of Normal Schools at the meeting of the Association in St. Paul in July of I914. At this round table, a report of which appears in the N.E.A. Proceedings for that year, it was voted, on motion of John W. Cook, of De Kalb, Illinois, that a committee be appointed to gather information regarding the work that is actually being done with sociology in normal schools. A committee of five was appointed, with D. 0. Kinsman, of Whitewater, Wisconsin, as chairman, and including the two normal-school members of the committee of the Sociological Society and two others. In February, I9I5, this committee of the Normal School Department of the N.E.A. sent two questionnaires to the presidents of all the public normal schools in the United States, with stamped and addressed envelope for reply. One questionnaire was for use by schools which were giving courses in sociology; it inquired about the kind of course, the reasons for giving it. and whether it was regarded as a nrofessional subiect