Word: settlements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...broadest features of the work is that of conducting boys clubs. Boston and Cambridge have been divided into six districts, including in all 35 settlement houses, each district supervised by one responsible man. In each settlement house there are about five boys clubs, led by college men. It is the duty of these club leaders to read to the boys, talk to them, teach them games, and generally to lead their meetings. The principle kept in mind is that no boy is born bad nor wants to be bad, and once shown that fair play and manliness is what...
...annual Social Service Conference was held last night in Phillips Brooks House. E.D. Smith '12, a past Social Service Secretary, told what might be gained by volunteer settlement work, and enumerated, first, a practical background for academic work; second, an ability to depict and manage men and boys; third, a meaning and substance in place of abstract ideas; last, a larger knowledge of the integral parts which compose society...
Dean Briggs, following a short talk by A. F. Pickernell '14 on settlement work, sounded a warning note to those men whose tendency it might be to lose their balance in enthusiasm for the practical, intense nature of the work. "Do not try to get the experience of manhood all at once. Remember that the Master you all follow, who gave his life to social service, led in his early years, an almost unrecorded life." Settlement work has great value as a laboratory course, complementary to academic theory, and if it is modestly and moderately pursued cannot fail to make...
...other speakers, A. Beane '11, L. Withington '11, C. B. Ruggs 3L., and B. Wright 3L., discussed respectively the openings for settlement work, the value of the Union to law students, the opportunities for helpful experience in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and the aims of the Law Review...
...baseball game with the University of Vermont to be played on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock inaugurates the mid-season period of preparation for the University baseball team. The team's make-up is near the final settlement and the games from now on will attempt to instill sureness and team-work into the play...