Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Boston has a negro population of 15,000. Cambridge has nearly 5,000 more. There is opportunity right here, therefore, for study of the "negro problem," and there is great need of effort to better local conditions...
...South End House of Boston, with the purposes of which such Harvard men as are especially interested in social betterment work may be acquainted, is this year undertaking both a careful study of Boston's negro population and also some practical work toward improving the local situation...
...chance for Harvard men who are interested in this question to co-operate with the House. From out the field for study may be selected certain sub-questions, such as "Immigration from the South," "Criminality and Immorality," or what not, which in view of the limitable size of the local negro population, may be comprehensively investigated. Such first-hand investigation would be gladly accepted as thesis work in a number of College courses. Then for the men who are interested in the more practical side of the question there is opportunity to take charge of various clubs and classes...
...died Wednesday morning at his home in Brookline after a short illness. Soon after graduation Mr. Guild went to India and entered the East India trade. Becoming interested in the insurance business he was later made president of the American Insurance Company of Boston. In 1873 he accepted the local agency of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company and after a few years entered into partnership under the firm name of Guild and Eastman, with which firm, in addition to many other local insurance interests, his name has since been associated...
...local subscription price of the paper will be $1 a year, but an arrangement will be made with the University, Sophomore, or Freshman debating clubs whereby men who have paid their dues in those organizations may receive copies each month without additional charge. Similar club subscription rates will be made at other colleges taking "Bothsides...