Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There still remains, however, ample time for the settlement of two athletic questions of considerable importance. A good many weeks ago there was considerable discussion of the two-period rule, and steps were taken to bring the subject of its abolition to the attention of the Athletic Committee. We have not heard whether it is being held under consideration at the present time, but as very few meetings of the Committee remain before the end of the term, we risk the criticism of over-persistence by again urging the Committee to abolish this unfair regulation before the year is over...
...Pierian Sodality will give a concert at the Parker Memorial, an institution in South Boston for social work, this evening at 8 o'clock. Invitations have been sent to its members and to many of its friends among settlement workers. Dancing and refreshments will follow the concert...
Finally there is a growing sentiment in favor of arbitration and the judicial settlement of disputes. It is not the dream of the few, but the positive need of men and nations that we have a court of international arbitration where quarries and all other differences among nations may be finally settled. Undoubtedly we shall have such a court in the near future...
...Social Service Committee is directing its attention to various forms of social settlement work in Boston and Cambridge and about 100 men have been placed in positions of social service activity. All those interested should see one of the members of the following committee, which is in charge of the different branches of the work: chairman, A. G. Cable '09; clothing collection, J. Curtiss '09; entertainment troupes, J. T. Nightingale '10; assignment, P. W. Carter '10; boys' clubs, L. E. Drew '11, A. Gregg '11, and G. Swan '09; home libraries, T. M. Gregory '10; juvenile court, G. W. Hallowell...
...several departments, each having a chairman. The entertainment troupes, clothing collection, and the text-book loan library departments have made marked progress. The boys' club department has been further divided into volunteer probate work, children's home libraries, associated charities, teaching in various missions, and directing boys' clubs in settlement houses. These branches are under the supervision of the chairman of boys' club work, P. W. Carter...