Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York? You ask, "Have they not public schools that will give them at least a saving conception of what an education is?" You think that the best schools are where they are most needed; but instead of this, as soon as the unlearned multitude comes to a neighborhood, the churches and schools forsake it. In the parts of New York where most is needed least is given...
Samoset Club.Early in the autumn several members of the present junior class met to consider the advisability of forming an organization for the purpose of becoming better acquainted with the objects and places of historical interest in New England and especially in the neighborhood of Boston. The result was the formation of the Samoset Club, so called in honor of the Sagamore of Pemaquid, who welcomed our forefathers to Plymouth...
...football game, Manager Moore has suggested one consideration to us which is certainly a very important one. It relates to the possible confusion which might arise from asking the public to make a change from an arrangement to which they have become well accustomed. There are usually in the neighborhood of seventeen thousand people at the game, each one of whom is assigned to some particular seat. The majority have been to the game before and have become accustomed to finding their places on one side or the other. If a change were made it is felt that there would...
...Great Lakes and by way of the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic coast; two districts adjoining each other in the middle Atlantic region and extending to the west and south; the Pueblo district in the southwest, and another around California. There are marks of a migration from the neighborhood of Oregon eastward to the Atlantic and down the coast to the Carolinas. Another migration seems to have started in the Pueblo region and sent off-shoots, possibly at intervals of hundreds or thousands of years, north to the neighborhood of Utah and northeast to the Great Lakes. Of the latter...
...purpose; its work is being carried on at present by four young men, all of whom are college graduates, and two of whom were graduated from Harvard. These men live in the centre of one of the slum districts and make themselves acquainted with the poor in their neighborhood. They do this in no superficial or patronizing way, but by visiting the houses of the people, making common interests with them, and thus come to understand their needs and their merits. The clothing put into their hands is practically sure of finding its way into the hands of those...