Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Closely allied to the boys club work is that of the Home Library Committee. From each of the settlement house collections of about 15 books and some magazines are sent to the houses of several boys. These boys distribute the books among the other boys of the immediate neighborhood. When all of them have been read, they are returned and a new group sent out. A college man is assigned to each of these libraries, and has over the books with him, and his friends, and to read to them or amuse them in any way he sees...
...tennis tournament which ended Wednesday and contained at the start forty-three entries, together with the twenty-seventh annual interscholastic track meet scheduled for a week from tomorrow, point out one more way by which Harvard can strengthen the tie which binds it to the preparatory schools of the neighborhood. The tournament and the meet, receiving, as they do, the official sanction of the University, naturally form focal points upon which the interest of preparatory school athletes is centered. They are, therefore, essentially successful...
...similar scheme night be applied to interscholastic rowing. The advantages of having a single race, the winning of which would be the main object of the scholastic crews, are obvious. Not only would schoolboy rowing in this neighborhood receive a great impetus, but the relations between Harvard and the schools would be sure to become closer and more cordial...
...second place, the holder of the fellowship devotes a substantial fraction of his time to certain phases of the distinctive work of the settlement,--boys' clubs, athletics, dramatics, charity work, local improvement committee work, etc. In nearly every case it is possible to keep the study and the practical neighborhood work in close relation so that each re-enforces the other. Finally, the holder takes a limited amount of course work in the University...
...Parker Memorial House--D. M. Rowles uC. Riverside Alliance--G. P. Davis '14, F. S. Miley '13, J. Walcott '15. Robert Gould Shaw House--C. S. Bolster '15, H. G. Francke '14, F. R. Mead '12, R. Morris '14, S. H. Olmsted '13, H. F. Root '13. Roxbury Neighborhood House--G. C. Anderson 1G., N. J. Cassavetes '15, C. H. Crombie '14, E. C. B. Danforth '15, K. R. Garland 2G.S., R. F. Goldschmidt '12, C. Von Tobel '15. Ruggles Street Neighborhood House--C. E. Brickley '15, W. L. McLean '14, E. G. Simons '12, W. H. Trumbull...