Word: truant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...needs and future careers. The men have undertaken service for the Associated Charities of Boston, the Home Libraries of the Boston Children's Aid Society, the Society for Home Savings, the North End Union, the Italian Mission, the Parker Memorial, the Newsboys' Reading Room and Boys' Club, the Boston Truant School, and the State Reform School for Boys...
Entertainments by "troupes," -the "Vocal Troupe," the "Sleight-of-Hand Troupe" and the "Student Volunteer Orchestra," -have been given in institutions where monotony or suffering makes such diversions peculiarly welcome-the Cambridge Almshouse, the Boston Home for Incurables, the Boston Insane Hospital, the Suffolk County Parental School (truant school), the Lyman school (state reform school), the Lyman school (state reform school), the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, and other institutions...
Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 at Sudbury, in Suffolk. As a school boy he often played the truant to ramble through the country making sketches of the woods and fields. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he was apprenticed to an engraver named Gravelot. He soon gave up this place and went to the artist Hayman, who must have been a bad master for so impulsive a lad as Gainsborough. At nineteen he returned home and had the good fortune to marry the beautiful and accomplished Margaret Burr...
...invitations were sent out by the committee to men actively engaged in volunteer work, and fourteen men attended. The party took the boat, the J. Putnam Bradlee, to the island, and on their arrival they were received by Superintendent Gerrish. They were conducted over the House of Industry, the Truant School, and the Hospital by Assistant-Superintendent Perkins, who explained to the men the working of the various branches of the institution. After the tour of inspection the visitors were the guests of Superintendent Gerrish at a little luncheon. The party returned to Boston at six o'clock...