Under the study of courts comes the work of the court officers and the processes connected with the trial. The term of the office, selection and salary of the various officials. The meaning of the various terms used. Probation system. The Department of Correction.--Its management and duties. Prison labor. The indeterminate sentence system. 5. The Health Department. (a) In relation to the ordinary resident. (b) In relation to the landlord. (c) In relation to the business man. A study of the actual regulations of this department as found in the code, and a description of its activities, together with comparison with the work done in other cities. 6. The Tenement House Department. When and why formed? Who is subject to it? How organized? What it has accomplished. Why it needs a strong head. Illustrations from report of the Tenement House Department. Dictation of most important provisions of law. 7. Building Bureau. How it differs in organization from other departments. The buildings subject to its jurisdiction. Why its inefficient management is so disastrous. The temptation to graft and what it costs. 8. The Park Department. How it protects health. How our park system arose and what it has cost. How the parks are managed. The need of small parks. What parks have accomplished in New York. Boulevards as parks. The need and benefit of playgrounds as conducive to health, educative and preventive of crime. The desirability of school playgrounds. Dangers threatening parks. 9. Department of Charities. The hospital and ambulance service. Out-door relief. Asylums. How the destitute may be aided. The city’s aid to private charitable institutions. In this connection it is both desirable and feasible for the pupils to visit the more important departments and get some first-hand impressions of their work. Our experience has been that the city officials willingly and helpfully coöperate with the school. Not only have they furnished us much valuable material, but they have also facilitated the inspection of their departments, and have not infrequently themselves given helpful talks to the boys.