Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...consideration for those things which bear the Imperial stamp. Now we offer no brief for the German nation. We have found in their offers no basis for a just peace. We maintain the principle that they as yet lack the good faith which is so essential to the final settlement. Yet it seems that such an intolerant attitude is the blindness of a superficial patriotism. Only by earnestly watching for a change in the feeling of their people can we come to an understanding. How else is peace ever to be attained? Though we may find reason to doubt...
...French farce, "Pierre Patelin," in the theatre of the Elizabeth Peabody House, 357 Charles street, Boston, tonight at 8 o'clock. During the past few weeks the cast, organized somewhat after the manner of the old student-player fraternities of France, have been carrying their production about the various settlement houses of Boston...
...scholar Colonel Lawrence is known for his book "The Valley of Kashmir," which is the result of his experience as Settlement Commissioner to that country in the years...
...number, in spite of the decrease in enrolment in the College, compares favorably with the 279 men enrolled in the cause last year. A large number of the 232 men are employed in teaching foreigners and workingmen, and in leading boys' clubs in Cambridge. Others are working under the settlement houses in Boston. The scope of the work done by these volunteers is very wide, ranging from teaching elementary subjects, such as English, mathematics and Latin, to leading groups of boys who are interested in music, dramatics or debating. Several students have been instructing groups of boys in elementary military...
...extend back in this country but 44 years. And they have already gone to prove that there is no such thing as a "change of climate," for better or for worse, in New England. The weather in Boston in essentially what it was at the days of the first settlement; and if there had been no record as low as 14 degrees below zero between the years 1873 and 1917, we may be entirely certain that the exact instruments which we now have would have recorded a temperature as low as that on several occasions since 1630, if they...