Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University settlement has been established in Chicago by alumni and students of the Northwestern University. This is the first in Chicago...
...some time the Prospect Union has been desirous of forming a college settlement at Prospect House, and at last, through the interest which Mrs. Agassiz has taken in the movement, about $220 has been subscribed for the furnishing of a room and the expenses of men who undertake the work there. It is expected that students will live there for a week or a fortnight at a time, and their close association with the men will enable them to do much better work than would otherwise be possible. The Union has now been in existence a little more than...
...addition to this business the officers of the Prospect Union will bring up the question of university settlement work. The Union has some money which it can devote to starting a settlement, and is ready to help the work if there are men who desire to go into...
...interest to Harvard men, since they are written, one by Brook Herford, and the other by Professor Palmer. Mr. Herford's article is called "An Old English Township," and in it he describes some of the curious changes and chances which have entered into the history of the little settlement of Singleton, in Lancashire. The description has a delightful simplicity of manner and a charming lightness of touch that seem almost to give one a whiff of the very breath of the English country air. No one could give such a description better than Mr. Herford, for a truly English...
When the agreement was made last fall, the Yale News gave its unqualified approval to it in the following editorial of October 21: "The foot ball arrangement entered into with Harvard, printed in another column, will be greeted as a definite settlement of a matter that has given a good deal of trouble in past years. The terms of the agreement seem to be perfectly fair and it should put on a much firmer and more satisfactory basis our relations with Harvard in foot ball...