Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...East Cambridge on a firm basis. This district has been very much neglected up to this time, and it is hoped that with increasing donaticus, an establishment similar to the Prospect Union may be opened to the neighborhood that will offer instruction to parents as well as to children...
...school cannot be wholly responsible for the education of our children. The individual home and the community are jointly responsible with the school for the education of every child. Nevertheless, the school must carry the largest share of this responsibility, because it is the institution which society charges with the sole function of education, while the home and other institutions of society have many other functions. It is therefore the business of the school to cast the more or less vague desires of the community respecting education into definite aims, and to find, organize and administer the means through which...
...reading room for children was formally opened yesterday afternoon in East Cambridge by the Christian Association. It is called the Harvard Free Library and is located at 133 Fifth street. Children between seven and fifteen are allowed to take out books between 3.30 and 5.30 every week day afternoon and to keep them for one week. The number of children who wish to take out books has so far exceeded the most liberal estimate and the number of volumes should be doubled at once. Yesterday 187 children applied for membership. Men who have juvenile books of any sort are urged...
...Harvard Christian Association has secured quarters for a juvenile reading room in East Cambridge and is now furnishing the rooms and establishing a library. Since there is no social room for children at present in that district the rooms will be fitted up with periodicals and books for children from seven to fourteen years of age. Some fifty standard juvenile books are being purchased to form a nucleus. In order that these rooms may become an attractive spot in a decidedly desolate district, it is hoped that Harvard men will help to keep the library growing by contributing more volumes...
...Garrison married Miss Alice Kirkham of Hastings-on-Hudson, and leaves two children. He was a member of the University, Chi Phi and Harvard Clubs of New York, of the Bar Association of New York, and the Papyrus Club of Boston...