Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to his fame as an athlete and his prominent place in College life, Mr. Wendell was widely known as a philanthropist. He organized clubs for the poor boys of New York City and in many cases found homes for the more promising in various parts of the country. He was one of the pioneers in helping the boys of the slums to better citizenship by giving them a chance to grow up in an out of doors atmosphere. He was also interested in such organizations as the Society for Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, the George Junior Republic...
...about 12 college men for the summer. Every year a ship is sent to Newfoundland and Labrador for the purpose of restocking the different stations already established in these thinly populated lands. This great charitable organization is under the direction of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the well-known doctor and philanthropist. Those who volunteer for the summer will be expected to do general work on the voyage and later at the various hospital stations in Newfoundland. Any men who consider spending the summer in this way can find out all details in regard to the requirements from L. H. Miller, Lawrence...
...mysterious Kentucky major, who is wiser than the world knows,--wiser, indeed, than the reader suspects, till the amusing "denouement," on the famous street, makes one wish that the suspense had lasted longer. More ambitious is Mr. Murdock's "A Change of Heart," which tells how a smug "scientific philanthropist," at last convinced by sad experience of his own inability to help his fellowmen by mere doles of money, is converted, not to a more humane sort of philanthropy, but to golf! Possibly the characters in the story would be more life-like if the author had let them speak...
...Cambridge, if one may believe the newspaper stories issuing from that hallowed seat of learning. With the subsidence of the agitation for "credits toward a degree for managers of athletic teams," comes another still more startling--rolling onwards like a veritable billow of materialism to engulf the helpless philanthropist shivering on the brink. In short, "students are trying with good prospects of success to have the faculty recognize the philanthropic work done by students in and about Boston as credit toward the college degree. Several hundred men are engaged each year, under the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House...
...Elevating S" is a clever sketch by Mr. P. W. Thayer. The subject is not new; a rich philanthropist summons a Common loafer to dine because he wishes to life "one of these poor men . . . . from the street to a position of trust." There is, however, a striking novelty of diction which blinds us to the triteness of the material; and the author's style fairly bristles with delightful neologiams--such as "largesse...