Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Prospect Union will open its nineteenth year of work in Cambridge next Monday evening at 744 Massachusetts avenue. The Union is an educational and social club for men, conducted by wage-earners and by students, and teachers from Harvard University. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education, through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers...
...Prospect Union has reorganized its system of work this year in order to make it more efficient and connected. All the courses will be divided into departments of allied subjects under the guidance of a chairman in each department, while the various courses will be given by different teachers...
Permit me through your columns to call the attention of students in all the departments of the University to an opportunity for social service in Cambridge. During the next few days the Prospect Union aims to put before every workingman in Cambridge the opportunities for education that Harvard is providing for him through the Union. For this work a large number of men, are needed at once as speakers, advisers teachers, etc. There will be almost 200 meetings of labor unions, clubs, lodges, factory groups, etc., within the next month to which volunteers will be assigned to describe the work...
...call issued by the Prospect Union for men to carry out its plans for reaching the workingmen of Cambridge, for whose benefit the Union was founded, will commend itself to many undergraduates. During the past eighteen years, the Prospect Union has been doing a valuable service to the community by affording mutual and helpful contact between laborers of Cambridge and Harvard men. This has resulted not only in giving certain members of the University a better appreciation of life in that part of Cambridge of which they see but little and of building up through its members a positive influence...
...call issued by the Prospect Union authorities is worthy of serious consideration, and of a response sufficiently hearty to enable the Union to carry out its campaign as planned...