Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This settlement house is patronized by about 300 boys residing in the neighborhood. Since these boys participate in strenuous gymnasium work where neglected physical defects, particularly hernias and weak hearts may result in permanent disability, and since they are living in such conditions that a contagious disease if not detected immediately will spread very rapidly, it seemed advisable to provide for a thorough periodical medical and dental examination for these boys. As the parents of the boys are in many cases unable to bear the expense of such examinations the work will be done free of charge...
...Hamilton, H. H. Hamilton, 4M. E. W. Stratford, 3M, and Dr. G. E. Thompson have agreed to give one evening each week of their time to examining boys in the settlement houses in Boston. They will make a report on each boy examined and turn it over to the director of the settlement who will be responsible for seeing that those cases needing attention receive treatment at one of the clinics in the neighborhood...
...young man, graduate of Boston University Theological School, who has taken courses in the Department of Social Ethics at Harvard under Dr. Richard C. Cabot and others, is pastor of the Trinity Community Methodist Episcopal Church in the slum district of East Cambridge. His church is, in effect, a settlement house to which he brings all races and religious. He wrote a personal letter to President Lowell expressing his astonishment that Harvard, with its traditions, should have treated Mrs. Emma Trafton (who lives in a dark, dreary tenement directly in the rear of Mr. Duvall's church...
...million glorious tons! But I regret to say that all our new cargo boats are of foreign construction. I hope that the limitation of ships of war at London will soon release huge sums enabling us to build ships of Peace-and trade. Ah, pourquoi la France fait-elle settlement les bateaux de luxe? We must not, my distinguished friends, build only luxury ships-like this!," and excited M. Rollin made a sweeping circular gesture, almost a pirouette...
...quietly abroad to confer with Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. Expected upshot of the visit: Professor Sprague may become the liaison officer between the Bank of England and the German Reichsbank, the Bank of France, the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of International Settlement...