Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...increase which amounts to at least 100,000 every year. In addition, all our little country villages are being swallowed up year after year and others are growing every day. Another problem is the appalling overcrowding of London which we already have. The mortality is terrible, especially among children, of whom 52 out of every thousand die yearly, whereas the ordinary rate is not more than 18. At least half of these deaths are due to preventable diseases. The immorality of our women we are fighting day by day. The large, hungry, starving crowd of the unemployed which march through...
...Birtwell '81 of the Boston Children's Aid Society will be at Phillips Brooks House this afternoon from 4 to 5.30 o'clock to consult with members of the University who wish to engage in philanthropic work. Mr. Birtwell's long experience with Boston charities enables him to give expert information and advice in regard to the various institutions and opportunities for service in Boston and vicinity. He may be found in the Randall Room on the first floor of Phillips Brooks House at the time stated above and at the same place and time every Tuesday hereafter...
...fiction. The material is of the slightest; on a hot summer night a student involuntarily in Cambridge, amuses himself on the steps of his dormitory by engaging in conversation three little street waifs that chance by. The atmosphere is admirably reproduced by a few telling lines and the children are treated with something of that realism and sympathetic humor which one remembers in the street scenes of Marie Bashkirtseff. Finally the style, which is unmannered, has charming personal quality. The piece is characterized throughout by vitality and truth. "The Bravery of Terrence" by Mr. John L. Warren is the best...
Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, Dr. James S. Stone '89 will deliver the last of the series of lectures on "The Physical and Mental Development of Children...
...LECTURE. "The Physical and Mental Development of Children." Dr. James S. Stone. Harvard Medical School, Longwood Ave., Boston...