Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Jacob A. Riis of New York is to deliver a lecture, illustrated by stereopticon views, in Sanders Theatre next Tuesday evening on "What Mr. Low Can Do in New York." The lecture is given under the auspices of the Social Service Committee, for the benefit of its philanthropic work. Tickets, at fifty cents each, have been placed on sale at Sever's and at Herrick...
...Social Service Committee will held its regular December clothing collection today. The dormitories will be canvassed between 2 and 3 and between 7 and 8 o'clock. Men expecting to be away at these hours are asked to deliver what they have to the porter or janitor of their building. Any wearable clothing will be acceptable. The clothes will be distributed among the poor of Boston and vicinity; some will be sent to the Tuskegee Institute...
North American Review--"The Proposed Appalachian Park," by Prof. N. S. Shaler '62; "Publicity as a Means of Social Reform," by W. H. Baldwin...
Professor Lepold Mabilleau, corresponding member of the Institute of France and director of the Musee Social of Paris, will give a series of public lectures in Sanders Theatre on February 17, 19, 21 and 24. The lectures will be delivered in French and will have for a general subject "La Prevoyance Sociale an France...
...Beginnings of Poetry," by Francis B. Gummere '75, is a careful and rather extensive study of the use of poetry as a social institution; it has for its aim, to quote from the opening chapter, "the recording, the classifying and the comparing of the poetic product at large." This involves an analysis of poetry with the view of determining its essential characteristic, which, the author decides, is rhythm. As will be seen, the strictness of the above conclusion bars out all so-called "poetic prose," such as the nobler passages in the Old Testament of the Bible. Indeed this result...