Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-six undergraduate volunteers, recruited by the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House, have been working for months teaching classes of young boys in preparation of the famous Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House Science Fair...
...Peabody House, which contains the best scientific equipment of any settlement house in the country, the PBH workers teach classes of about eight boys in an unusually wide variety of subjects, ranging from radio broadcasting to guinea pigs...
Lately there has been some dissatisfaction with Phillips Brooks House and its social service work. The critics charge that P.B.H. wasn't fulfilled to the best of its ability its position as Harvard's welfare organization. For until last year P.B.H. was doing little else but furnishing settlement workers and giving out holiday baskets of food to needy families. The importance of these functions, especially the former one, should not be underrated; it is still important to continue them. But they are really remedies for social ills and scarcely preventatives...
...Italy's joining the Allies. But the concessions were never made because Foreign Minister Laval was booted out and Parliament refused to ratify his dealings with II Duce. Last week II Duce took occasion to renounce publicly his end of the pact, hoping that a new African settlement, based on the Wartime promises, can be wrung from France and Britain. He wants most the Addis Ababa-Djibouti rail line of which all but the easternmost 50 miles runs through what is now Italian territory, on which practically all the traffic is Italian. The only way the colony...
...While some merchants reported that a serious food shortage would result unless there was a settlement soon, the State Division on the Necessities of Life said that there was no immediate danger of food shortage in eastern Massachusetts...