Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...United States Forestry Department at Washington. Mr. Pinchot, who is a prominent graduate of Yale and a close friend of President Roosevelt, spoke in Cambridge before the Political Club two years ago. In addition, to the other speakers already announced, Mr. H. Roswell Bates of the Spring Street Settlement, New York, will conduct a daily conference on modern city problems. Mr. Bates has organized one of the most successful neighborhood houses in New York, and has given talks on his experiences, at Yale and other colleges...
...were put at work in various forms of social service, such as attending juvenile courts and acting as volunteer probation officers in Cambridge; coaching in fencing, boxing basketball, football, and baseball at South End House and the North Bennett Street Industrial School, and managing boys' clubs in various settlement houses in Boston and Cambridge...
...judges for the debate will be: John Taggard Blodgett of Providence, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island; Robert Archey Woods, head worker of the South End Settlement House, of Boston; and John McLane, Governor of New Hampshire Louis Dembitz Brandeis L'77, a prominent member of the Massachusetts bar, will preside...
...miles of the total distance. Several botanical collections were made and considerable work done in ornithology. In none of the caves or other places visited were any remains of ancient date discovered, and it was concluded from this that the island was probably not inhabited prior to its settlement by the Norwegians...
...addition to the regular courses outlined above, conferences on social service work will be held from time to time, for the benefit of men engaged or interested in any form of philanthropic work. These meetings will be addressed by settlement workers from Boston and other cities. A series of doctrinal conferences will be conducted by the Catholic Club; announcement of these will be made later in the CRIMSON...