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...other hand, it is the effect of all this on the student which is the real reason for Phillips Brooks House. Other institutions could well amass seamen's libraries and discarded overalls, but they would have little influence on or small appeal to college students. The Phillips Brooks House is the natural outlet for the student's philanthropic tendencies, and as it directs this often very considerable energy into useful channels, it serves two purposes, and it seems, serves both with exceedingly good results...
...that the present requirement that 65% of deck crews be able-bodied seamen be repealed...
...that the obligatory partial payment of wages to seamen while on voyage be repealed, because it encourages desertion, delays and loss of efficiency...
...institutions where, every year for 60 years, poor mothers and rich, humble- and proud alike, have laid their unwanted children in the arms of charity? Have you heard of the tarnished fame of Hell's Kitchen as it used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage...
...When Conrad portrays sea characters with his great simplicity of style, they seem real and living, but when he applies this same simplicity to his landmine, he unaccountably loses that genuineness of character which makes his seamen so famous", said Mr. George E. O'Dell at luncheon in the Liberal Club yesterday when speaking on "English Realism: Galsworthy, Bennett, Conrad, and Shaw". He continued...