Word: children
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Charles W. Birtwell '82, general secretary of the Boston Children's Aid Society, chairman of the Committee on Charities and Correction of the Boston Municipal League, and member of the Mayor's Advisory Board on the Public Institutions of Boston, was asked to give a portion of his time to the direct administration of the work. $1200 was quickly raised to meet the expenses of the first year, and a year later $600 for the year that ends this month...
...time, as the men prosecute their work they can go to the director for information or advice. In six different Ward Conferences of the Associated Charities of Boston, as well as for the Associated Charities of Cambridge, men have acted as volunteer visitors in poor families. In the Children's Aid Society more than a dozen men have regularly superintended Home Libraries.- small libraries placed in the homes of poor families and constantly renewed, the membership of each library including ten children from the neighborhood, and the volunteer visitor meeting with the group in the home of the librarian weekly...
...subtlety of the originals. No truer example of this has come to our notice than the Letters of Victor Hugo, done into English by Paul Meurice (Houghton Mifflin and Co.) It is a work of remarkable interest, including as it does Hugo's unpublished letters to his father, wife, children, and to many famous persons. But much of the refinement and delicacy of phrase is lost in the translating; and the reader feels that he is hearing Hugo's words from the lips of some one else and not from the author himself...
...Little Children, Fly, Ballon...
Pedagogical Seminary Reading in the Education of Children. Mr. I. W. Horne. Sever...