Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prospect Union is not just another of those extra-curricular activities "deserving of undergraduate support." Its special significance for Harvard at this time lies in the fact that it offers the best and perhaps the only opportunity for College men to meet grown men from a really different social stratum on something like a common basis...
...disappear in the struggle for a living. Nevertheless college men, who have the opportunity to do some of that detached, impersonal thinking which often provides such good social medicine, are through their situation well fitted to see and work for the good of the whole community. To these the Prospect Union offers a liberal field. It is continuing in its purpose "to bring into mutual beneficent contact all classes and groups in the community." It is a sincere attempt to break down the barriers of misunderstanding between classes...
...teaching staff at the Prospect Union for the coming year is now being selected. In accord with the spirit and purpose of the founders of the Union in Central Square, preference will be given, other things being equal, to Harvard instructors, graduate students, and certain specially qualified undergraduates. Classes and lectures, held principally during the evening, will include elementary, commercial, technical, and cultural subjects...
...Prospect Union was founded in 1890 by Professor Francis G. Peabody '69, a group of Harvard students, and several workingmen of Cambridge. The purpose of the Union was then, and has since been, to bring into mutual beneficial contact all classes and groups in the community. Catholics and Protestants, Socialists and Anarchists, black and white, aliens and Americans, have all been members of the Union and have contributed their share to the working unity. Among the instructors and supporters of the organization have been such eminent men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, Edward Everett Hale...
...debating teams, dramatic productions and musical work will be given all available opportunities. Suggestions for enhancing the usefulness of the club facilities or more fully fulfilling the general purposes of the institution are at all times welcome. Professor James Ford, President of the Board of Directors of the Prospect Union, or either of the men mentioned above, will gladly confer with any persons who wish to contribute either ideas or personal assistance to the solution of local educational and civic problems...