Word: freeing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...then briefly outline the need for men which is felt in the various branches of this philanthropic work? At the Harvard Free Reading Room in East Cambridge there is a distinct and immediate need for Harvard men to assist in organizing and conducting clubs of the children of the district. The influence and prestige of the Reading Room have grown rapidly in the few months since its foundation, and the organization is powerful and popular enough to exert a strong influence in the community about it. The circulation of books is the least part of the scheme of the Reading...
...Senior, Junior and Sophomore Newell crews and the Senior and Junior Weld crews went out on the river for the first time yesterday afternoon. The water was very smooth and almost entirely free from ice so that it was possible to use the shells without danger. Each crew was out about half an hour and rowed in short stretches by fours and eights. The blade work of all the men was rather ragged but for the first day the rowing was very encouraging...
Amendments were added to the constitution bearing on the eligibility of entries, making the one-year residence rule and the prohibition of free training table board applicable to all the universities...
...sees her subjected to and caught in "Les Tenailles" of wedlock, and believes here to be oppressed by "La Loi de I'Homme" Against this subjection and oppression of woman, his sense of justice revolts, and from them, through the medium of his writings, has he sought to free here. The Roman law as it is manifested and re-imbodied in the Napoleonic code, appears to him unjust. He would like to emancipate women entirely, and he desires also to have French social legislation framed after the pattern of the American laws...
...work of the Christian Association has been steadily successful. The work at T Wharf, at the Chinese Sunday School, and at the Denison House Settlement has been carried on in the same way as heretofore, and, in general, with results that have been satisfactory. The boys club and the free reading room in East Cambridge, which were started in place of a thorough college settlement at first proposed, have been, since last fall, enlarged in their equipment and scope of work, and are exerting a strong and beneficial influence in the district where they are located. The work...