Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting tonight, Brooks House will run trips to the more interesting settlements in Boston for all men interested, Sheldon Ware '38, chairman of the Social Service Committee, said yesterday. Students doing social work in Boston and Cambridge settlement houses under the direction of the Social Service Committee recently reached an all-time high of over 229, Ware said. There will be a competition for the chairmanship of the Speakers Committee in the near future...
...etymology and practice of bundling (partly undressed, unmarried couples occupying the same bed for warmth). Said an early Connecticut historian (1781): "Notwithstanding the great modesty of the females ... it is thought but a piece of civility to ask her to bundle: a custom as old as the first settlement in 1634." Another writer reported: "When a girl, that was old enough to be married, had a suitor who had been a few times to see her, the parents, if they approved of the connection, would-what they called-bundle them; which bundling implied, putting them to bed together, the lady...
...week with no speedy conclusion yet in sight, it became evident that a major battle was on between the two groups with opinion sharply divided between undergraduates. Disinterested observers believed that the influence of the A. F. of L. or the C. I. O. would become stronger and that settlement would not be reached until the organization was allowed full rights...
...Japan will present moderate terms of settlement at the end of the conflict," he said, enlarging on his "no unreasonable ambitions" theme. He implied that his country was driven to war. Most of the land which Japan is acquiring he classed as "all expense, no remuneration...
...Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang's big banker brother-in-law T. V. Soong was standing pat in the International Settlement, despite reports that he had fled. "I predict," he declared "that within three months-providing we can hold out, which I am sure we can-Japan will be on the verge of bankruptcy and facing revolution!" To achieve this aim, Chinese were burning down whole cities, such as Chinkiang 40 miles east of Nanking, destroying millions of dollars worth of Chinese property. This was announced as a "scorched earth policy" to make conquest as difficult as possible for Japan...