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...study lasted only six weeks, in the summer. The School for Social Workers to be conducted jointly by Harvard University and Simmonds College will aim to give a more extended and systematic instruction in philanthropy for a few willing students who desire to do scientific work, and to uplift both themselves and others. It is planned to put the school on a high academic standard, to give its students a certain amount of technical training, under the direction of practical philanthropic workers, and a broad outlook over the whole field of social work. The school will open early next October...
...conditions of modern industry, the negative claims that the history of trade-unionism in the past twenty years has been advantageous to the working man and creditable to such labor leaders as John Mitchell and P. M. Arthur, who have given the chief years of their lives to the uplift of the laboring man, and, with him, the general material and moral condition of the whole people...
...opium habit, which is much more serious than drunkenness, because those addicted to it cannot rid themselves of the habit. The existence of these and many other vices may be traced to the practice of Idolatry, which presents very low ideals it is believed that Christianity can uplift the Chinese people from their present low state, but the number of missionaries now in China is extremely inadequate to the task, and a great field for useful work lies open there...
...popular enough to exert a strong influence in the community about it. The circulation of books is the least part of the scheme of the Reading Room; only by the indirect influence of men exerted through personal touch with children in the clubs can the organization help to uplift the tone and character of the neighborhood...
Professor Wood closed by expressing the hope that the new impulses recently evident in German commercial enterprise, and the return of the nation from philosophical materialism to its earlier ideals, would bring a new uplift in German literature...