Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clothing of all sorts, besides a ton and a quarter of books and magazines, have been received. Cases of clothing will be sent to the following charities and institutions: Cambridge Associated Charities; City Prison, New York; Morgan Memorial, Boston; Seaman's Friend Society, Boston; Spring Street Neighborhood House, New York City; St. James Parish House, North Cambridge; St. Vincent de Paul, South Boston; Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, Mississippi; and in smaller cases to many individuals recommended by charitable institutions. The books and magazines were distributed among the following institutions: East Cambridge Jail; Holy Ghost Hospital, Cambridge...
...Bates is the head of the Spring Street Neighborhood House, New York, where he has spent a number of years of residence and work among the poor in New York City. He has an intimate knowledge of the actual conditions of life among them, having spoken on this subject at the Northfield Student Conference last June, and recently at Yale and Princeton...
...Harvard Congregational Club, composed of Congregational students in the University and ministers in the neighborhood of Boston, has been recently formed. Its purpose is to bring men in the University into closer acquaintance with the practical and present problems of a working ministry...
...Society has recently presented to the Classical Museum a chariot, which was used at the Greek Play last June. Professor A. A. Howard '82 gave an ancient Greek strigil from Aegina and a bit of mosaic from the vase of Chalydon. A collection of native terra cottas from the neighborhood of Rome was received from Dr. A. S. Pease, and several specimens of Roman building stone were given by the Mineralogical museum. Mr. George S. Pfeiffer donated a number of photographic negatives...
...regard to beginning settlement work. Thus far calls have been received for volunteers to manage boys' clubs at Hale House, Children's House, North Bennet street, Industrial School, and at several churches; to teach elementary subjects at the Breadwinner's College in Boston and the Dudley street Neighborhood House; to visit the poor for the Cambridge Associated Charities; and to manage Children's Home Libraries in Boston. Several of these places have already been filled; but there are still a considerable number of vacancies. Men who volunteered for this form of social service work are requested to see Mr. Birtwell...