Word: civic
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Beginning January 25, a course for the consideration of civic problems with special reference to the bearing of social settlements will be given fortnightly in Phillips Brooks House during January, February, March and April. The course will be conducted as a seminar course under the general direction of the resident workers of South End House, Boston, and though primarily intended for men interested in the broadest aspects of modern charitable effort, is open to all members of the University...
President Eliot will leave Cambridge this evening to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the National Civic Federation in New York tomorrow morning. Tomorrow evening he will be present at a dinner given by the Federation at the Park Avenue Hotel, New York...
...Bryce was introduced by President Eliot, who said that this was the first of a permanent series of lectures relating to government and civic duty. The lectureship bears the name of a great journalist, a man of unusual vigor, sincerity, and candor, who throughout his life pursued high ideals of public duty and liberty. His pen was strong and his writings were often irritating to his opponents. To do him honor, his friends, many of whom differed from him politically, have endowed this lectureship. It is particularly appropriate that the man who is to inaugurate these lectures should...
President Eliot will go to New York the latter part of this week to take part in the meeting of the executive committee of the National Civic Federation which will be held on Friday and Saturday, December 18 and 19. This committee, composed of twelve representatives of the employers of labor, twelve labor leaders, and twelve men representing the general public, was formed a few years ago in order that there might be a competent board of arbitration to settle labor difficulties. The coming conference is one of the regular semi-annual meetings for the discussion of general business...
...charitable work in Cambridge or Boston. Thirty or forty men, for instance, are sent annually to assist with boys' clubs and men's clubs at the Riverside Alliance. Other men go to assist at the East End Christian Union, at the Francis E. Willard Settlement, at Dennison House, the Civic Service House and other settlements in Boston. On T. Wharf, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, the Association superintends a reading-room for the fishermen and sailors who come into Boston harbor, and several Harvard men by giving there monthly entertainments and smokers keep in touch with the life about...