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...amount of their time in this work are sent to various settlement houses in Boston, where they prepare adult foreign persons to take out citizenship papers. Work with youths in these houses consists in directing boys between the ages of 12 and 18 in basketball, debating, camping, woodworking, and handicraft. The settlement work is done in the following places: Lincoln House, Denison House, South End House, Ellis Memorial, Roxbury Neighborhood House, North Bennett Street Industrial School, North End Union, Elizabeth Peabody House, and the Cambridge...
March 19-22-Third annual "Great West" (folksong, folkdance & handicraft) Festival at Calgary, Alberta. Sponsors: Premier Brownlee, Canadian Pacific...
March 19-22-Third annual "Great West" (folksong, folkdance & handicraft) Festival at Calgary, Alberta. Sponsors: Premier Brownlee, Canadian Pacific Railway...
...country and my country needs so much as the cultivation of esthetic values; not in the foolish and pretentious fashion of the esthetes of the Victorian era but in the straightforward manly fashion of many of the great artists of the Renaissance period. . . . Unfortunately I have never learned any handicraft but I hope to make good this defect when I retire to become an enthusiastic if perhaps a belated bookbinder. . . . Even if bookbinding is but a small thing I console myself by saying that to have bound one book really well is to have added to the stock of beautiful...
...kept busy, they are very liable to get into trouble on the streets. In social service homes, they can compete in games such as basketball and baseball, under the supervision of the workers. The homes especially desire men who are proficient in some special line, such as handicraft, dramatics, fencing, soccer, scouting, running, or dancing...