NEWS OF SOCIOLOGICAL INTEREST.

The article reports on certain new developments in the field of social sciences. Marquette University, Wisconsin, is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the founding of its social science department. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Catholic Anthropological Conference will be held Tuesday, April 26, at Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois. The next annual meeting of the American Sociological Society will be held in Chicago, Illinois, December 27-29, 1940. A clearing-house committee on personnel was appointed at the last convention to secure some means for the effective spread of information on vocational opportunities. The Central States Probation and Parole Conference will hold its annual meeting at the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, on April 21-25. The National Catholic Conference on Family Life will hold its annual meeting at the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York, on the feast of Saint Joseph, on April 10. The fourth annual meeting of the Mid-West Sociological Society will be held at the Hotel Kirkwood, Des Moines, Iowa, on April 18-20.