Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recently been appointed secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, will speak on the plans and methods of the society in dealing with cases. Mr. Carstens has until lately been connected with the Charity Organization Society of New York, and is a well-known worker in charity movements. Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological Seminary will probably preside, and various charity workers will take part in the discussion...
...exceptional opportunity will be offered to the members of the Union in hearing Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, who is to speak this evening at the annual business meeting. Major Higginson is well known to all members of this University not only as the donor of the Union and of Soldiers Field, but as a strong factor in a great number of ways at Harvard. He has for some time been of great assistance in the maintenance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has long been a leader in every public-spirited movement in Boston...
...flush of activity is now passing over them: but it is difficult to find any moral or intellectual impulse in this activity. On the country, licentiousness and gambling were never more prevalent. The great cry of the people has been for more land, but it is a well-known fact, that the land already possessed by the peasants is very rarely cultivated sufficiently to support them. Violences have occurred, quite as much on the part of the people as on the part of the government, and these actions have been among the most valuable assets of the government...
...lectured on that subject at Columbia University. He has been president of the American Society of Naturalists and of the American Physiological Society, and at present is an associate editor of the "American Journal of Physiology" and of the "Journal of Experimental Medicine." Among his best-known books are "Studies of Physiological Chemistry," and "Physiological Economy in Nutrition...
...school reforms. During the years 1896 and 1897, Mr. Riis was one of the executive officers of the Good Government Clubs, and in 1897 was secretary of the New York Small Parks Commission. He has written a number of books and magazine articles on these subjects, among the best known of which are, "How the Other Half Lives," "The Battle with the Slum," and "The Peril and the Preservation of the Home...