Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have been admitted. There are twelve courses of study now going on and more will be started soon. As the work increases in size the need of closer and more systematic supervision is felt, and to meet this need the best plan seems to be to begin a University settlement. Several college men are ready to live in the Prospect House for a few weeks at different times and to assume the personal management of the work by turns. Such an undertaking, however, will require more funds than the Union at present has. To consider this and other plans...
Wednesday, Nov. 25. - Iceland, from Ingolf's settlement to its subjection to Norway...
Thursday, Nov. 26. - The life of a priest and scholar in the eleventh century. Ari the historian, and the works ascribed to him; Islendinga bok, Landnama bok and Kristni Saga; histories of the settlement of Iceland and of its conversion to Christianity...
...Cummings spoke first of the popular misunderstanding of the difference between University Extension and University Settlement. In the latter movement, University men live in the localities where they wish to carry on their work while in the former, men come from the Universities to their fields of labor only at certain times. Toynbee Hall in London is possibly the most notable example of University Settlement...
Thursday, Nov. 26. - The life of a priest and scholar in the eleventh century. Art the historian, and the works ascribed to him; Islendinga bok, Landnama bok and Kristni Saga; histories of the settlement of Iceland and of its conversion to Christianity...