Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...SEMINARY IN EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS. "Educational Activities of the Settlement." Mr. D. H. Howie. Lawrence...
...Pennsylvania and at Northwestern University, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy at the latter in 1887. After studying for four years at Yale and at the University of Leipzig, he became instructor of sociology at the University of Chicago. The following year he founded the Northwestern University Settlement. Since 1902, when he became Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, he has delivered many of the University Extension Lecture Courses of that University...
...Civic Federation exists for the settlement as far as possible of differences between labor and capital. For this purpose the members, who represent labor, capital, and the general public in nearly equal proportions, are divided into various committees...
...years he has been engaged in medical and philanthropic work in Labrador and has bettered the educational and economic situation there by establishing schools and co-operative stores. He cruises the coast of Labrador in summer in his hospital ship and in winter covers the distance from settlement to settlement by dog-teams, caring for the sick and needy fishermen who comprise most of the population of this region. On one of these trips he made the first authentic chart of the Labrador coast. This winter he is going to introduce into the country a herd of reindeer from Lapland...
...glowing tribute to the splendid work being done by the Ministry of Labor in Canada, under the direction of Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, a former member of the club, and a former student in the Economics Department of Harvard. The recent legislation of the Canadian Parliament for the settlement of individual disputes was designated by the speaker as "the best in the world." Its superlorities in contrast with the laws for similar purposes in the other British colonies and the United States were discussed at some length. Continuing, President Eliot pointed out the difference between Canada and the United...