Word: charitarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great city's poor came to her in 1883 when she watched an auctioneer in London's East Side selling a consignment of badly spoiled meat. She and her longtime friend, Julia C. Lathrop, went back to Chicago a few years later and started their charitarian operations in the home of one Charles J. Hull, at Halsted near Polk Street. It was a lively neighborhood. On one side stood a mortuary, on the other a saloon. Hull-House grew, expanded building by building until now it occupies the entire block, is one of the biggest...
...some with amusement, some with complete apathy, almost every Princetonian has regarded it as weak. This judgment was echoed last week by the society itself. President Charles Stevens announced that next year it will lead only a nominal life, while a federation of studentry and faculty carries on its charitarian and other endeavors. Many Princetonians discerned behind this movement the energetic figure of Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of the University Chapel, who arrived at Princeton two years ago from the Second Church (Congregationalist) of Holyoke, Mass., determined that Princeton's religious life should be enlightened, vital...
Birthday. Benjamin Altheimer, charitarian, German-born originator of Flag Day (June 14); at Manhattan. Age: 80. Date: March 6. Of a St. Louis Christian preacher who was annoyed that a foreign-born Jew had first thought of so honoring the U. S. flag, he said: "I told that preacher that it wasn't the first time a Jew had given a Christian an idea or something to think about...
Although he is not so lavish a charitarian as was Brother-in-Law Bok, he is interested in the Y.M C A. During the War he served as a "Y" secretary in France. He owes allegiance to no church or college...
August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, planned to make St. Augustine (oldest U. S. city) and St. Johns County, Fla., one place "in which there would be no poverty, no preventable suffering, no unattended medical cases and no avoidable diseases." As a starter, he gave the Florida Normal & Industrial Institute (coeducational Negro school) a gymnasium, a cinder track, a swimming pool...