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...United States and the Peace Settlement," Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall...
...This settlement which Mr. Baldwin so hastily concluded staggered Europe. It amazed the business community of America. It was so unexpected. The [U. S.] Treasury officials were not exactly bluffing, but they put forward their full demand as a start in the conversations, and to their surprise Mr. Baldwin said he thought the terms were fair, and accepted them. If all business was as easy as that there would be no joy in its pursuit. But this crude job, jocularly called a 'settlement,' was to have a disastrous effect upon the whole further course of negotiations on international...
...variety of opportunity has given the men a wide range of activities from which to choose. The perspective volunteer may select his job from a varied list of settlement house activities. He may serve as the advisor to a boys' debating club, an instructor in some kind of craft work such as wrought iron making, carpentry, or he may become a basketball coach, librarian, boxing or wrestling instructor, a teacher of English, arithmetic, or a leader of adults who are studying for their naturalization papers. If none of these more specialized fields appeal to him he may organize a group...
Debating has proved to be another popular field. Debate coaches and judges for the Inter-Settlement League have been provided for several houses...
During the past season many of the settlement houses have availed themselves the use of the Phillips Brooks beach wagon, which is loaned to them free of charge. This is used to transport groups of boys from the settlement houses to and from basketball games and to and from the camps that several of the houses maintain in the country. Harvard student volunteers often take their boys' club for a ride in the country or on a trip to some point of interest...