Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...evening in the vestry of the First Parish Church, on the work of the Republic. The Republic, he said, is not a scheme of the imagination, but a practical institution, whose success has already been demonstrated. Mr. Osborne went on to describe in detail the workings of this unique settlement in Freeville, N. Y. Here about one hundred boys and girls, drawn from all classes of society, have been constituted into a juvenile republic, making their own laws, having their own courts, carrying on their own industries--in fact, performing almost all the functions of a complete society. The child...
...Republic, situated in Freeport, New York, is a settlement of boys and girls from the tenement districts of the great cities--a settlement conducted as a miniature republic, with a congress, courts of justice, and law officers by which the citizens govern themselves. Farming and the keeping of stores and hotels are carried on by the citizens on the basis of a currency of the Republic which when the citizens leave is exchanged for usable articles of one kind or another. As an experiment in training the boys and girls of the poorer classes in practical citizenship, and in developing...
...April 1 the Harvard House in East Cambridge, which was founded last year and called the Harvard Free Library, became in reality a settlement. The library of the organization still remains the chief feature, but all of the branches together have taken the nature of a regular college settlement. The funds needed for carrying on the work have come from undergraduates and alumni...
...settlement of the University crew order has again been postponed, and the crews rowed yesterday in new temporary orders as follows...
...greater part of the proceeds of the concert will be given to the Harvard House and the new College Settlement in East Cambridge, and the remainder will be at the disposal of the Social Service Committee...