Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...workingmen who have no homes, spend the night. Here also gather the unfortunates who are out of employment, and the destitute; and as but few of the lodging houses offer an attractive place for resort in stormy weather or during the evenings, the barrooms are resorted to for shelter and for companionship. It is to offer these men a pleasanter and more wholesome resort that the present project has been started; but the promotors hope that it will do more than this, for it is proposed to form a committee of students, who will visit the rooms at stated periods...
...when it is his character and conduct that constitute the reasons for his failure in the battle of life:" Booth, pp. 85, 252.- (b) Such spiritual motives generally lacking in ordinary methods of poor relief.- (1) The Poor Law Guardian is mostly a dispenser of material help-money, food, shelter, etc.- (c) The spiritual incentives to better lives are given by the Salvation Army.- (1) They feed not only the body but the soul...
...fulfillment; the athletic men look to it as a means towards supplying the unity and a common meeting-place, now sadly lacking. The graduates, wherever heard from, have expressed the hope that they may soon see a club-house in which, when they visit Cambridge, they can find shelter and a welcome. We are justified in expecting, therefore, that a want so generally recognized will soon be filled...
...looting of the Arequipa observatory which was reported some months ago, was much exaggerated. Some savages broke into the instrument shelter on Misti summit and stole two instruments. This was the only loss suffered...
...Professor Bailey reached the summit of Misti, an old volcano, 19,200 feet above the level of the sea. Here, with a great deal of trouble, an instrument shelter was built. It was the original plan to visit this station once in every ten days to wind the instruments there, which would run for that length of time. It was found impossible to visit Misti summit always at the interval of ten days, and now a meteorgraph has been made for the station which will run for three months...