Word: workers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first of the series of five South worth Foundation lectures on "The Church and the Social Awakening," will be given by Mr. R. A. Woods, A.M., Head Worker at the South End House, Boston, in Room A of the Andover Seminary Building this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lectures will be open to the public and the remaining four in the series will be given on May 1, May 3, May 6, and May 8. For this afternoon the subject will be "Nuture: Every Child his Chance...
...Berger said that Socialism is not a theory, but rather the name of a phase of civilization that we are approaching. Today, having passed the phases of feudalism and slavery, we have the capitalistic phase in which the worker is free but still dependent upon capital for employment. While seeking this employment the laborer is forced into the open market and hence is subjected to competition, which makes it possible for the employer to hire his men at starvation wages. Machinery, having done away with the necessity of skilled labor, has complicated the situation...
...been out of the game with a lame shoulder. There is still a tendency to offside play, Withington being the principle offender in this respect. The ends are both fast and aggressive. Coolidge is light, but very heady and a good tackler and Weatherhead is heavy and a hard worker. All the backs are heavy and fast and with the return of Hardwick the team is assured of a punter of more than ordinary ability...
...render in his life. The right kind of social service is to the social life of the great community, what efficient engineering is to industry. It discovers hitherto unknown valuable by-products in the members of the community and is constructive and educational. Good social service requires that the workers give all they can to their boys and take in return what the boys can teach them. To give everything and take nothing is impossible and would be unprofitable to all concerned; to give nothing and try to take everything is equally impossible and would be unjust. Social service...
...Benchley '12 spoke on "Boys' Clubs." He emphasized the fact that good is not only done to the boys, but that inestimable good is done the teachers by the points which they learn from their wards. The finest thing a social service worker can do is to learn one or two of his boys by heart, to have them as true friends, boys to whom he is an idol, and who take from him the ideals which will stir ambition in their souls...