Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genial, spirited Phillips Brooks would have been pleased by the awakened sense of social responsibility demonstrated by many Harvard students. His heart would have been warmed by the increasing number of students volunteering "for active service" in settlement houses and by the thought that Phillips Brooks House, in organization and effectiveness, was was beginning to realize its potentialities...
...significance of personal contact with Boston slums and settlement houses, where boys and girls with a minimum of opportunities are encouraged to improve their minds and bodies in an atmosphere of social cleanliness cannot be exaggerated. It is one of the few forms of practical training that college life can offer. In social work a man tests his power of leadership, his ability to pit his ideas against keen, youthful opposition, and his skill in solving complex problems. It is valuable self-education, broadening an individual's social knowledge and directing his thinking into channels unrelated to himself...
...this drama Phillips Brooks House plays its part and plays it well. Many a future citizen at Harvard finds impressive the fact that the juvenile crime rate soars dangerously where no settlement house is located. He is concerned, and not in the tea-cup manner, about the people who live on the rim of existence. Today it is possible to find in the well-organized Phillips Brooks House clothing drive merely one outward manifestation of vigorous internal life and social usefulness...
Special emphasis is being placed this year on the solicitation of text-books which will be placed in the loan library of Phillips Brooks House. Old magazines are distributed to settlement houses and hospitals...
...liking of the corporation involved-which was Wilson & Co. Last year this big Chicago packing house put through a recapitalization plan providing, among other things, for the payment of $12,600,000 in dividend arrears, not in cash but in stock. The payment was accepted as a satisfactory settlement by the owners of 99% of the shares affected. Among the holdouts was a Wall Streeter named Joseph Keller, who figured that if back dividends were to be paid at all he was entitled to hard cash, $21.25 on each of his 500 Class A shares. Hiring a smart Manhattan lawyer...