Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring clothing collection will be made this afternoon under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Wagons will call at the various dormitories and collect all the articles which the collectors have gathered during the week. The old clothes will be distributed to needy students and to settlement houses, the magazines and papers will be sent to hospitals and light-houses, and the text books will be put in the Text-book Loan Library in the Phillips Brooks House...
...Woods is well known as a settlement worker. After graduating from Amherst in 1886 he studied abroad and since 1891 he has been at the head of the South End House settlement in Boston. He has lectured on social economics at the Andover Theological Seminary, on practical philanthropy at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, and in 1907 on social ethics, at the University. Besides writing magazine articles he published, in 1891, a book entitled "English Social Movements...
...impecunious friend Snaffles, the strikers are invited to seize him and are about to throw him to the polar bears. Higdig, however, arrives at the right moment. Gloriana and Chalkstones, now married, appear, and everything turns out all right. Bixby becoming engaged to Anne Higdig who has been doing settlement work among the Eskimos...
Mention was made of the monthly reports and the special committee reports showing the important characteristics of the work done by Phillips Brooks House in following up the volunteers it had sent to settlement communities. The gradual improvement shown in the work was attributed to the more definite understanding which has been growing up between the settlements and the student volunteers, together with a more systematic policy on the part of the social service committee...
...closing the meeting the settlement workers emphasized the fact that they considered the work done by Harvard volunteers highly worth while because of its educating effect on the students as well as on account of the net gain derived by the settlements...