Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second-decade student, provided there be no economic or competitive anxieties, probably cannot be over-exercised. . . . There should be frank anticipation of the college course, with the view to shortening the latter, for youth's brain power has been underestimated and the process of education, before settlement into gainful occupation and marriage, has been slow and long. The prolonged period of infancy characteristic of the human species has been safeguarded to the detriment of the species...
...present 80 men employed in supervising the leisure hours of boys in 14 settlement houses in the vicinity of Boston. It is the hope of Phillips Brooks House, according to Frank W. Vincent '36, chairman of the Social Service committee, that this number may be increased to 150 in the near future. The boys, who represent almost every race, religion, and nationality and who are drawn from the underprivileged classes of Boston, are already so numerous that paid workers are rapidly becoming unable to handle them; and the need for volunteers is acts...
...activities which are conducted in the settlement houses are extremely varied. They range from tumbling and wrestling through the manufacture of model airplanes to debating and dramatics. The Committee believes that it is obviously better to direct the energies of the city's less fortunate children into these comparatively healthy channels rather than to allow them, with their undeveloped sense of values, to seek their recreation without any guidance...
...demand basis, the RFC loans become payable if New York Central ever defaults. Furthermore, Mr. Vanderbilt tried to patch up his spat with the RFChairman by writing: "Please accept our sincere thanks for the co-operative spirit which you have evinced in reaching a final and permanent settlement...
...Japanese marine in uniform" in Shanghai (TIME, Nov. 18). and this touched off other incidents last week as Chinese all over China roused one another against the Japanese menace. Mobs in Shanghai stoned Japanese stores and 150,000 Chinese fled the Chinese quarter of Shanghai into the International Settlement, ruled by Occidentals under a U. S. citizen. Secretary General Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Municipal Council. What chiefly irritated Japanese last week was the curt announcement of the Occidental police of the International Settlement that the Japanese marine's uncaught murderer seems also to have been wearing a Japanese...