Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is little real need for social service workers as such. The City of Cambridge is able and anxious to supervise youngsters in their idle hours. The Recreation Division, a branch of the Cambridge Park Department under the direction of Mr. Stephen H. Mahoney, was set up several years ago for this very purpose. Playgrounds have been appropriated, equipped with field-houses and outdoor apparatus, and manned with experienced workers. Two of these fields--the Robert E. Hoyt and the Corporal Burns--are in the immediate vicinity of Harvard...
George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, has accepted the invitation of President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College, to deliver the Commencement address there next June, it was announced yesterday, John Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, will give the Baccalaureate Sermon at the exercises...
...Park, 111. shoe Storekeeper Sam Ragalie boasted to a customer that he had just saved $150 from gunmen by keeping it in a shoebox, not in his till. Few minutes later the customer returned with a pistol, demanded and was given the shoebox...
...just ordered some merchandise to be sent to his home. "There will be a slight mailing charge outside of New England," the salesgirl announced. "Oh, I live outside of New England all right," replied the proud son of the Empire State. But he had scarcely progressed beyond the 'Park Avenue' part of his address before he was interrupted by derisive female chuckles. "To the Coop," the salesgirl informed him, "New York is in New England...
...doctor's office overlooked Central Park at a height of seventeen elevator seconds from the imitation marble floor. It resembled the attic of a mechanically-and-chemically-inclined household; his secretary had the look of a woman who had taken one look at the attic and refused, on practical grounds to tidy it. The doctor opened his mouth in a smile and pointed out a chair. Assuming that he was offering a seat, the Vagabond sat down. No, the doctor said, I want to know if you can see that chair; this is my own preliminary eyesight test...