Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three-fold influence in furthering class democracy, class unity, and a proper attitude of the Freshmen toward the upper classes and toward the college. The opponents of the system maintained that the rushes and Freshman restrictions, not horsing, unify the class, that the prominent men escape horsing while the friendless Freshmen bear the brunt of it, with a resulting effect away from democracy instead of toward it; and that whatever doubtful good it may do in opening the eyes of the Freshmen to their own unimportance is more than neutralized in Sophomore year. Its enemies maintain further that...
...difficult work with striking success, that of fighting vice and immorality in Chicago. As superintendent of the City Missions, he is in charge of the religious work in twenty one penal and charitable institutions, such as the county jail, the city hospital, and the home for the friendless. He has earned wide comment in newspapers and magazines for his vigorous and sympathetic treatment of conditions in the resorts of Chicago's West End. He is furthermore a member of the Chicago Board of Education, the Municipal Vice-Commission, and holds a number of other public offices...