Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Seminary of Economics. The Tenement House Exhibition, and Tenement Conditions in Boston. Mr. F. A. Bushee. University...
Seminary of Economics. The Tenement House Exhibition, and Tenement Conditions in Boston. Mr. F. A. Bushee. University...
Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum, Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, the editor of the Century Magazine, gave an address under the auspices of the Student Volunteer Committee, on "Public Opinion in America." Before his main address, he gave a brief account of the work of the Tenement House Commission of 1894, which to a large extent remedied the wretched condition of the tenement district of New York City. Mr. Gilder then spoke on the general subject of public opinion in the United States. He said those who are watching most closely and keenly the trend of events note...
...wish to remind the University of Mr. Richard Watson Gilder's address to be delivered tonight at the invitation of the Student Volunteer Committee. As chairman of the New York Tenement House Commission Mr. Gilder has done a great deal during the past few months to procure the passage of a bill in the New York Legislature providing for improved tenement houses and open air parks in the crowded districts of New York City. In his address he proposes to show the influence of public opinion and good citizenship in bringing about these results. Mr. Gilder is well known...
...Heard in the Other Tenement, S. R. Wrightington...