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...organization of charities in London 30 years ago, is today the most perfect in the world. It aims to enlist personal effort and sympathy to cooperate with organization. Whether such an attempt can be successfully made in cities as large as New York and London is an unsolved problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hon. Robert Treat Paine's Address. | 1/25/1895 | See Source »

Various phases of the employment problem are continually met. Shall the children of helpless widows be supported at home or put in public institutions? Shall the wife and children of able-bodied men out of work be cared for? Shall industrial societies fill the places of strikers with applicants for work. The societies of Boston find difficulty in solving all these problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hon. Robert Treat Paine's Address. | 1/25/1895 | See Source »

...rowing problem among American universities is ever to be settled, if any arrangement is ever to be effected whereby the champion crew may be determined each year, it is absolutely necessary that Pennsylvania and Cornell continue to meet in their four mile races. It is only by such means, and through the continued improvement of these contests that the winner can here to meet the winner of the Yale - Harvard contest and the championship can be decided. If Pennsylvania is responsible for any interruption to the annual four mile race with Cornell, then she can undoubtedly be held responsible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennsylvania and Cornell. | 1/9/1895 | See Source »

PROFESSOR J. H. W. Stuckenburg, D. D., of Berlin, Germany, will give a course of six lectures on the Social Problem, in Y. M. C. A. Hall, Boston, January 14, 21, 23, 28, 30, February 4. Course tickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 1/9/1895 | See Source »

...poorly, and candidates were being injured daily. Four of last year's 'varsity players were so badly injured as to make them unfit for further service. Stevenson had his jaw hurt, Acton dislocated his elbow, Dunlop broke his collar bone, and Gray broke his leg. During October, too, the problem of the coaches changed. Early in the season there had been a dearth of rush line players, and a surplusage of backs. But with the return of Waters and Mackie, the improvement of the two Shaws, and the recovery of Emmons from a broken ankle, the line was strengthened remarkably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Football Season. | 11/24/1894 | See Source »