Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest has been taken in the matter that on one Sunday in December five such services were held. Requests have come for men to conduct boy's clubs in Boston and Cambridge, and two more men are wanted by the Associated Charities in Boston to collect the savings of poor people. Another call is for cast-off clothing. A resident member of the Andover House college settlement, W. E. Clark '93, has appealed for aid in this respect. In this distressful year there is a greater claim than ever on our generosity. Articles of clothing may be sent...
...minute a man wilfully neglects his work he shows himself out of harmony with the institution and anything which encourages him in this neglect must be an evil. Moreover, the price charged for seminars is so high that, even were they a good thing, they could not help a poor man to pass an examination. Some of the prices charged suggest a monopoly on knowledge which is ridiculous. The arguments against the system are too many to name...
...Endicott Peabody of Groton addressed the St. Paul's Society last night, and then laid before them a plan for a Boys Club to be founded in Boston this winter. Poor boys in large cities have almost no home life and have hardly any pleasure. In a winter as hard as this is sure to be they will be especially badly off and so this is a very good time to start a club. The idea is to have two rooms in some crowded part of Boston, probably near Florence street, and in one of these to have a gymnasium...
...make an honest effort to further those interests. The CRIMSON sees nothing to regret in its action. Next year we shall be willing to publish and to aid in distributing the best songs that are provided. We entertain the hope that the men who feel that the songs were poor this year, will see to it that they are better in the coming year...
...will of Dr. Lucius F. Billings, of Barre, bequeaths the sum of $5,000 to Harvard University, to be kept as a permanent fund for the medical department of the University, the annual income to be used for a scholarship for the benefit of poor but deserving medical students...