Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settlement houses is opportunity for coaching athletics, dramatics, for teaching music, English and civics to naturalization classes, for leading discussion groups, organizing boys' clubs. Last year approximately one hundred and twenty-five undergraduates were actively engaged in some form of this work...
...soul to all Freshmen having signified an interest in Brooks House work giving appointments when they may consult the various committee chairmen to discover where their particular interests and abilities lie. During the next two weeks, a series of nightly trips will afford an opportunity to visit Boston settlement houses...
...general lineup for the work this year was discussed in detail during a three-hour evening meeting. A plan for lectures by criminal and police heads was announced by Knowleton of the Social Service Committee; he also said that settlement house work would continue as usual. Bolton discussed in detail the work which he plans to have the Freshman committee do this year. This will include Red Cross driving, work which he plans to have the Freshman committee do this year. This will include Red Cross driving, work in social service in the settlement houses, and personnel work among Freshmen...
...three normal three-month "deals" or lettuce seasons of the year, growers around Wratsonville and Salinas ship as high as 300 carloads of lettuce per day, raise about 25% of the annual U. S. crop. Two years ago a violent strike tied up the Salinas-Watsonville fields. Settlement came with the signing of a contract between the Fruit & Vegetable Workers' Union and the Growers-Shippers' Association. Fortnight ago the contract came up for renewal. Agreement stalled when the growers objected to a clause giving unionists "preferential hiring," called it the entering wedge of the closed shop, traditionally detested...
...followers to pioneer a colony in the U. S. The first shipload of Jansonites went down in mid-Atlantic with all hands. Janson and a second company of his followers succeeded in reaching Illinois in 1846, purchased their first parcel of 60 acres in Henry County, called the settlement Bishop Hill...