Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Social Service Committee will hold its regular spring clothing collection of next Friday, May 8. The dormitories of 2 and 3 o'clock, and 7 and 8 o'clock, when men are asked to have in readiness what they wish to give. Any clothing or shoes in condition to be serviceable will be very acceptable, and books and magazines are also very much desired. The clothing will be distributed by responsible and experienced charitable agencies among the poor of Boston and the vicinity; the books and magazine will be sent to missions, Settlement libraries, and sailors homes...
...Social Service Committee has recently issued a leaflet in regard to the Social Service library stated a year ago. To secure the best possible library on social subjects, the Committee wrote to twenty-eight English and American experts, asking each one to recommend ten books suitable for such a library. About one hundred of the books recommended have been bough, and the collection is being kept up to date. The leaflet which has been prepared by the Committee calls attention to these books, expressing the hope that the library will be freely used by members of the University. As characteristic...
...anonymous gift of $50,000 has just been added to the fund for building Emerson Hall, the gift being made conditional upon the completion before Commencement of the amount needed to insure the building of the Hall. The special object of the gift is to encourage the work in social philosophy that is being done under Professor Peabody's direction...
...April Rain in the Woods," by F. S. Palmer '87; "The Honorable Points of Ignorance," by S. M. Crothers h.'99; "Sarah Blake Shaw," by R. W. Gilder h.'90; "Phyllis' Isle," by J. H. Morse '96; "Horace E. Scudder," by A. V. G. Allen h.'86; "The Social Unrest," by J. H. Gray...
...Brooks is a recognized authority on social and industrial subjects, and his recent book, "Social Unrest," has received wide attention and been recognized as an unusually able and important contribution to the discussion of the present day social conditions. He has made several trips to Pennsylvania during the recent coal strike and has personally investigated the accounts of violence and the general conditions of the strike. He also had an opportunity to hear the personal opinions of both the laborers and capitalists. After the talk there will be an opportunity for questions and discussion. The meeting will be open...