Word: director
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report of the Director of the Student Volunteer Committee which is about to be published, contains a comprehensive account of the work of the committee, its history and its present method of assisting the philanthropic enterprises carried out by Harvard students. Following is a review of the report...
Weekly consultation hours were arranged when any student could advise with the director as to how he could best take a hand in benevolent work. Through the director's knowledge of the intricate net-work of Boston Charities, and his understanding as a graduate of Harvard of the conditions under which students must engage in philanthropic activity, the men have been helped to make a wise choice of work. The interviews with the director are personal and confidential, and the resulting choice of work by the student is influenced by many considerations as to his situation, his tastes...
...Memorial, all in Boston. Volunteers have visited three hospitals. Occasionally a man has been added to the groups that have been working at the Sailor's Mission, the Chinese Mission, the Industrial Temporary Home and the John Howard Home. Committees from the religious societies have obtained information from the director that has aided them in the selection of the agencies with which they might usefully connect themselves. There are so-called charitable enterprises on which students would only waste their energies, learn worse than nothing, and get only disappointment for their pains, and from such the director has warned them...
...Brooke, the Rev. Percy Browne, the Rev. James De Normandie, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and the Rev. Leighton Parks, Professor Arlo Bates, of the Institute of Technology, Commander Eaton of the Enterprise, Mr. G. S. Hale, formerly of the Corporation of Phillips Academy, Exeter; Gen. Loring, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts; Mr. A. L. Lowell, of the Boston School Committee; Judge Lowell, Professor Thayer, of the Harvard Law School; the Master of St. Marks School; and Mr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University...
...Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory of the University of California, has received the decoration of the Knight of the Royal Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark. This ancient order was founded in A. D., 1219, as a mark of military distinction, but is conferred in the present case for service to science...