This publication takes an important place in our celebration of the Schooll's Fiftieth Anniversary. No proposal advanced received greater support or aroused greater enthusiasm. Expectations have been fully realized. The Research Compendium is at once a contribution to our still scanty knowledge of social need and social welfare and a tribute to twenty generations of students who have undertaken, as a modest but effective part of their professional education, to apply the disciplines of scholarly research to some of the human problems that confront them in their chosen vocation. Teaching and research are complementary tasks of a faculty member, and...

The Committee charged with planning this publication asked me to read and make abstracts of all doctoral dissertations and masters' theses, and to plan a "trend report" when the reading had been completed. It was their deliberate choice to have someone unfamiliar with social work literature come fresh to the task. And I attempted to give a clear picture of each report -- of not only its argument but its approach and tone as well. The tracing of "trends" would have called for awareness of more than the material I had to work with, however. And in the end the...

The School of Social Work of the University of Toronto achieved full graduate status during the academic year 1946-47. In retrospect it seems inevitable and entirely natural that the terms of this achievement would include a requirement that each successful candidate for a graduate degree must complete a piece of research and write an acceptable thesis.

Harry M. Cassidy, who had returned to Toronto as Director of the School in the latter months of 1944, was no novice in the process of negotiation with university bodies such as the Senate and the Graduate School. In the years 1938-42 he had...