ALLEN, WILLIAM HARVEY

(1874), social service direction; 6. LeRoy, Michigan. He was educated at the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania and studied at Leipzig and Berlin. In the field of social welfare he became affiliated with the New York A ociation for Improving the Condition of the Poor as general agent, between 1903 and 1907, then directed the Bureau of Municipal Research and the Training School for Public Service. He was appointed director of the University of Wisconsin’s Survey in 1914, and of the Institute for Public Service the following year. As a social service worker he also undertook school, municipal and state surveys in various sections of the country. His writings embraced subjects relating to his field of work, such as school efficiency, civics and health, woman’s part in government, and training for citizenship and public service.