Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This great social change, when combined with the moral indignation against graft now communicated to the poorer classes formerly dependent on Tammany, provides a powerful lever for the uprooting of an institution that has become a symbol "for all that is crooked, slimy, unpatriotic, and sinister in politics in any machine ridden city." Starved of national and city patronage, riddled by internal discussion and confronted by a real District Attorney, some leaders of the Wigwam may soon turn the Bridge of Sighs into a Tam-many wailing wall...
...story of the birth rate, says Dr. Thorndike, is "short but very bitter." The average number of children per family in good cities is 3.3, in poorer ones, 4.8. "Most of the rising generation is being brought up in the worst communities...
Social service in the poorer sections of Cambridge is now being conducted by Christ Church, under the supervision of Mr. Peyton Short...
This new Brooks House project has been aptly christened the "Student Faculty," as students who are seriously interested in their work will be invited to pair off with high school graduates living in the poorer districts of Boston, and they will go over reading and lecture notes together in any course that may be of mutual interest. By this method the undergraduate will be forced to clarify his course in his own mind, while the student may obtain an education that he would otherwise have no means of getting...
...Social Service committee, headed by Sheldon Ware '38, is doing increasingly important work in the poorer districts of Boston. The traditionally patronizing air which the college men used to have when doing social service has been done away with and in its place a real interest has been stimulated. In the not so distant past the security of their own future insulated their minds to any relative application of the distress encountered to their own lives and position in society. Direct contact with the results of unemployment, insecurity, and poverty has brought today greater realizations of their importance and position...