ABSTRACT
The primary emphasis of the C.O.S. for a good many years was on the organization of charity rather than on casework as such; that is to say on the best methods of correlating the giving of material help from various sources in a situation where material help, coupled with personal recognition, was often desperately needed. By 1903 the C.O.S. had started its own School of Sociology with some of the leading university teachers and social reformers of the day on its committee and the economist Alfred Marshall as the Chairman. In 1895 the New York C.O.S. started what later became the New York School of Social Work. In 1903 the London C.O.S. started its School of Sociology. In 1929 the Commonwealth Fund of America began to sow the seeds of the child guidance movement in this country and, as an important part of this, made possible the training of psychiatric social workers.
