Abstract
The decade of the 1930’s marks the rise of the professional social worker. During this time, social work, given genuine status by the depression and the entrance of the Federal Government into the business of relief, has striven to become not only intelligent but scientific. Nowhere can the history of the trained social worker, and scientific social work, be traced better than in a history of the development of the settlement house. In fact the settlement has been largely the fountainhead of the trained social worker; here standards have been established and philosophies of work formulated? To appreciate the growth and development of objective, scientific, and organized social work effort in a given community, one can learn much by studying the settlement house in that community. The history of one marks the milestones in the progress of the other.