Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans of the Phillips Brooks House to incorporate medical and dental students in its social service activities, mark a definite attempt to effect periodical examination of all the children in the care of the Boston settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical...
Medical and dental examination of Boston settlement house children is to be provided in the near future by the Phillips Brooks House Association, it was announced yesterday by J. H. Lane IG. B., graduate secretary of that organization. The work will be undertaken by students of the Medical and Dental Schools and will consist of diagnostic examination only...
...examiners are not obtainable by parents. As a result, children physically deficient have been allowed to engage in athletics and their health has in many cases been permanently impaired. To remove this danger, the Phillips Brooks House has undertaken to assure for all children in the care of the settlement houses, examinations, the diagnoses of which will be placed in the hands of the parents with recommendations for treatment. The secretaries of the settlement houses will endeavor to have attended all cases requiring medical or dental attention...
...Brooklyn's great Bush Terminal. There are piers, warehouses, factories, railroad lines and terminals, a vast panorama of industry that unrolls itself over 20 acres of South Brooklyn waterfront. This industrial city has a daytime population of 35,000, its own police force, and its own courts for the settlement of internal disputes. It is the creation of one man, Builder Bush. "Dreamer" and "visioner" are two words sadly overworked in business biography, but they apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than...
...Jewish public the world over is bound to suffer disappointment and disillusionment in its hopes with regard to the Jewish national homeland in Palestine. "I consider the Jewish Palestine worth while only if made possible on the highest ethical plane. The bayonets such as now support the Jewish settlement in Palestine are repugnant to the spirit of Judaism." Upholding Chancellor Magnes were Dr. Hugo Bergmann, fellow-faculty-member, and Felestin, an Arab publication. Said Felestin: "Had the Zionists attempted to work out a plan similar to this and in the same spirit, Palestine would have been a different country from...