Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Clark '93, who is in charge of Gordon House, a well-known social settlement in New York City, is in need of an assistant for the summer, and would like to have a Harvard student take the position during the vacation...
...natural that there should be jealousies and misunderstandings between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective efforts at the settlement of the labor problem must be directed. President Eliot has done a great deal in this direction by bringing laborers and employers together, by promoting free and frank discussion between them, by taking part in these discussions, and by setting at all times an example of patience and tolerance...
...meeting of the Graduate Club last night in Phillips Brooks House, Mr. Robert A. Woods, of the South End House, Boston, spoke on "The University Settlement as a Social Laboratory," tracing the aims of the Settlement and its work in investigating home life and educational questions. He also discussed the position of the laborer in regard to the labor question and explained the relation of politics to the poor...
...regular meetings of the year, which are open to all members of the University. By the discussion of topics of religious thought led by men prominent as thinkers upon religious questions, the Union endeavors to quicken the religious life of the University and if possible to aid in the settlement of individual religious doubts and questions...
...brought into touch with charitable work in Cambridge or Boston. Thirty or forty men, for instance, are sent annually to assist with boys' clubs and men's clubs at the Riverside Alliance. Other men go to assist at the East End Christian Union, at the Francis E. Willard Settlement, at Dennison House, the Civic Service House and other settlements in Boston. On T. Wharf, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, the Association superintends a reading-room for the fishermen and sailors who come into Boston harbor, and several Harvard men by giving there monthly entertainments and smokers keep in touch...