Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...That distinct provision be made for the submitting of lists of players and substitutes of the teams and for the settlement of controversies as to eligibility a reasonable time before the opening of the athletic seasons...
Toynbee Hall, in London, conducted by Cambridge and Oxford students and intended to help the poor of the Whitechapel district is undoubtedly the model of this new college settlement in New York, which is already on the way to outdo its original in honest usefulness...
...intention of starting a club for boys, but the boys themselves demanded recognition, and the first club was such a success that two more were started and all are doing earnest work. The children are taught cooking, sewing, hygiene, etc., but there is no distinct religious instruction. The settlement also discharges the functions of the penny provident fund, which receives deposits of one cent or more. The basement of the building is fitted with bath rooms which do not nearly supply the demands made upon them, although at first the Rivington street natives hardly knew for what they were meant...
...influence exerted by the two hundred young club members is already making itself felt upon the parents who are rapidly coming under the influence of the settlement...
...told that the management of last year's freshman baseball association is still in debt to the extent of some hundreds of dollars. The matter has been allowed to run during the past fall, but the time has come when a settlement must speedily be made, Whether the fault of the existing state of affairs lies with the manager of the Ninety-two nine or whether with the class we do not know. It certainly seems, however, as if the management had made exceedingly bad calculations for the expenditures for the season, or else had been very slack about making...