Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dean Castle finds the remedy of conditions as they stand in the appointment of younger instructors "who have gone through college with open eyes, receptive mind, and clean hands; who have appreciated temptations and withstood them--men, many of whom will not cling to teaching as a profession but who are eager to rectify in still younger men, the mistakes they themselves have made, and who are teachers because of their desire to be of service...
...tended at a hospital in Georgia who confessed a similar abduction, and identifies Lirty by a photograph. The man had died and the nurse had never found the child. The prospect seems as hopeless as any that had baffled Henry's detectives, but Martha, her mind tottering dangerously from the strain of waiting and longing, sets off to the South to hunt for the child through all the mills in the land. Henry, who owns one of these same mills, sends orders to push the profits as hard as possible to supply money for further search...
...workers often wonder whether they are worth while. But it is this small and doubtful work which is really the true service. The small problems which a student worker meets in social service serve the two-fold purpose of helping the world a little and relieving his own mind of constant dealings with the great theoretical problems of the classrooms. It is stimulating and healthful to ask students to deal with both sorts of problems. The world grows better by small items, not by leaps and bounds, and these small items are furnished by social service work. It is good...
...would be unjust. Social service is something more than to take a set program and follow it through day in and day out in one's work; it is to take charge of a boys club, or something similar, and put into its training all the originality of the mind, all the original ideas which may occur. The work is made by the worker and is not cut and dried routine. Now, the question is sometimes asked, "What is the use of it all?" In the first place it carries new ideals to the hearts of the unfortunate classes...
...Cantabrigian who so recently died, few could have recognized the ardent lover of all that was adventurous and free; the knight-errant champion of Abolition; a man who could lead a mob and who could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual slaves enlisted as Union soldiers; as reformer, and as author--essayist, romancer, and poet--Colonel Higginson was a man to know; and the sketch of his career...