Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Birtwell '85, graduate adviser in social service work, will be at Phillips Brooks House this afternoon from 4 to 5.30 o'clock, and at the same hours on succeeding Tuesdays, to consult with men who wish to find places in this philanthropic work. As secretary of the Boston Children's Aid Society, Mr. Birtwell has a wide acquaintance with Boston and Cambridge charities and can find work for any man who wishes it. Members of the Social Service Committee will also be at Brooks House daily from 11 to 12 o'clock to assign men to places where help...
More harmful than the inconvenience which all must suffer form the so-called good-nation of the susceptible, is the lasting effect upon the characters of the youthful mendicants. We have no right to expect that a class of children of the grammar school age--or even younger--who are educated to believe in their right to extort money from "the students" by cringing or bullying, will outgrow the harm which such a practice has done them. Let us harden our hearts and endure the imprecations, of disappointed petitioners rather than encourage a noxious custom for the sake of temporary...
...association is celebrating this week its quarter centennial. The following subjects will be discussed before the association by prominent educators, among others President Eliot and Professor Clemen: "President Tendencies in the Professional Education of Women," "Woman's College and University Education," "The Development of Children," "Endowed Professorships for Women," "Federated Clubs," and "Social Settlement Work...
...George has devoted much of his time to the study of social conditions, especially of children. For five years, beginning with 1890, he spent his summers in Fresh Air Fund work for children, taking from 200 to 300 boys and girls each year to Freeville, New York. In the summer of 1894 he tried certain principles of self-support and self-government for children with so much success that it was decided to carry on the summer work in the future on these principles. In September, 1895, five boys remained with Mr. George and the Republic began its permanent work...
...London, "Children of the Frost...