Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...capable of instructing in English composition or elementary English for foreigners, in mathematics, modern languages, the physical sciences, music or political science, and desiring the opportunity of contact with workingmen through teaching, should communicate with Arthur Fisher 3L., 20 Winthrop Hall, Cambridge. Details of the work may also be discussed with F. K. Bullard '20 between 8 and 10 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House any week day morning...
...Prospect Union was founded in 1890 by Professor Francis G. Peabody '69, a group of Harvard students, and several workingmen of Cambridge. The purpose of the Union was then, and has since been, to bring into mutual beneficial contact all classes and groups in the community. Catholics and Protestants, Socialists and Anarchists, black and white, aliens and Americans, have all been members of the Union and have contributed their share to the working unity. Among the instructors and supporters of the organization have been such eminent men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, Edward Everett Hale...
Reoccupying its former quarters in the old Cambridge City Hall, 744 Massachusetts avenue, the Prospect Union has opened as a workingmen's college and club. During the past two years the rooms of the Union have been devoted to the use of the Red Cross and other war activities. The opening meeting of the season will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at which educational and club enterprises with Harvard instruction will be discussed...
...songs in a pamphlet entitled "I. W. W. Songs to Fan the Flame of Discontent." It is interesting not because of its disorderly ferocity, which is certainly not characteristic of those to whom it is addressed, the workingmen, but because of the idea it advocates. It is a conception which has recently jumped into prominence in America, especially in Canada--the idea of the One Big Union...
Next week the "West End Workingmen's College," a "definite school of Americanization," will open at the Francis E. Villard House at 38 Chambers street, Boston. Instruction will be given in mathematics, English literature, modern languages, community civics, composition, philosophy, history, government and economics. This college is relying, to a great extent, on Harvard men to make it a success. The Social Service department of the Phillips Brooks House will be very grateful to any men who wish to volunteer...