Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...music or reading, in order to promote good comradeship and make the afternoon pleasant for men who stay in Cambridge over Sunday. Other plans under consideration, are a course of lectures dealing with social service from various points of view,--for example, from the point of view of the settlement worker, the economist, the sociologist, etc; and a Phillips Brooks House fellowship in social service, similar in general plan to the South End House Fellowship and the Robert Treat Paine Fellowship administered by the University...
Dean Hurlbut's tentative settlement of the troubles growing out of the abstraction of the Brooks tablet seemed to me to realize so perfectly all the possibilities for good that the situation contained, that I have noticed with much regret some opposition to the fulfilment of his plan. I see that the Boston Herald, lately chastened by a Harvard graduate for printing malicious lies about his young children, expresses the conviction that the Dean's course compromises the dignity and authority of the University. The Herald praises the good sense of the undergraduates who favor the most drastic treatment...
...Herald either cannot or will not understand the case as it is. I don't see that it matters at all whether it does or not. But the opposition to the settlement within the University is another matter. The cry of undergraduates for harsher punishment for an undergraduate; the echo in the Bulletin of "the charge that in Harvard College the rich man is treated better than the poor"; are not a little depressing. "The government of a University," says ex-Dean Briggs, "cannot with safety be entrusted to students; they are harsher than their elders and less just...
...Woods is an authority upon social settlement work. He has studied the conditions in various cities and was at one time connected with Toynbee Hall, London. He has been a member of the Public Bath Commission of Boston for the past eight years, and lecturer upon practical philanthropy at the Cambridge Episcopal Theological Seminary since 1896. During the past winter he has given a course on "Civic Problems" at Phillips Brooks House. Mr. Woods is the author of "English Social Movements," "The City Wilderness," and "The Making of Americans...
...performance of Shakespeare's comedy. "The Taming of the Shrew," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Radcliffe College Auditorium. The play will be repeated in the same place tomorrow evening at 8, and tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The proceeds will be devoted to the College Settlement Chapter, which does philanthropic work in different parts of Boston and Cambridge...