Settlement Work as Civic Preparation in Philadelphia
The writer recalls twenty years of College Settlement in Philadelphia, stressing a core aim to connect advantaged individuals with community welfare. Settlers mapped districts, studied facilities, and fought for improvements like parks, libraries, and playgrounds amid slum overcrowding and crime, culminating in the clearing of a ramshackle square.
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College
Philadelphia
Fifth Avenue
New York
Pine Street
North Broad Street
Old St. Mary’s Street
Little Star
Lombard
St. Mary's Street
Seventh Street
Review of the Bear gives varied tales and essays
Margaret F. Davis reviews The Bear contents praising some pieces for genuine verse, vivid lines, and strong emotion while critiquing others as uneven or overlong. She highlights Miss Teall's Middle-Aged and The Pay-Roll of the Sea, notes the old versus new themes, and comments on Prudence and Princess with the Heart of Ice with cautions about compression and tone.
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Miss Teall
Miss Geer
Winkin
Miss Deutsch
Miss Emmons
Prudence
Miss .Bashan
Jack
Barnard
Dull College
Margaret F. Davis
Nominations for Social Science League Chairs
The Social Science League posts nominations for chairmen in the library for members to consider before the election during the week after the Pageant. Suggestions for further nominations may be placed in Locker 166, senior study. The league will vote on abolishing the labor group and adding two new groups, including a Politics group and an Undergraduate organizations group to study student activities and governance.
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Social’ Science League
Social Science League
Library Bulletin Board
League
Randolph Byrne Columbia Genius to Speak on Morality
Randolph C. Byrne, a Columbia alumnus and notable writer, rose from high school to sophomore status after exams, became editor in chief of Monthly, contributed essays to the Atlantic Monthly, published Youth and Life in 1913, and now serves as a New Republic editor. He will lecture on morality Tuesday at 4 in the Electrical Lab under Barnard’s Literature Division of the Social Science League.
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Columbia
Randolph C. Byrne
Monthly
Dean Woolinage
Atlantic Monthly
Atlantic
New Republic
Barnard
Social Science League
Louis Untermyer to Read Poetry at Social Science League
Rumor says Louis Untermyer will speak on new poetry and his own extracts Monday the 15th in the Theatre for the Literature Division of the Social Science League. Guests may be invited, with tea afterward in the Electrical Lab where Art Group displays will be shown.
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Louis Untermyer
Social Science League
Electrical Lab
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