MEETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

This article presents information about various meetings and announcements as of August 1938. The American Catholic Sociological Society was organized at Loyola University, Chicago, on March 26, 1938, by seventy-five teachers of sociology representing thirty Catholic universities and colleges of ten states. Its purpose is to promote unity and cooperation among Catholic educators and institutions of higher learning in the field of social thought and action. The Chicago Recreation Commission and Northwestern University have recently issued Commercial Recreation, Volume II of the five-volume Survey, which deals with performing arts, sports, health, travel, newspaper promotional activities, amusement parks and endurance contests, ballrooms and dancing schools, and, briefly and quantitatively, with liquor establishments, commercialized vice, and borderline recreational activities. The Mid-West Sociological Society, held its annual meeting at Des Moines, Iowa, April 21-23, with over 100 persons from 43 institutions in attendance.