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...Massachusetts Peace Society has offered three prizes of $100, $75, and $50 respectively for the best essays on topics relating to the substitution of law for war in the settlement of international disputes. Some topics suggested are "The Work of the Permanent Court of Arbitration," "Arbitration Treaties," "Mediation," "International Commissions of Inquiry," "The Hague Conferences," and "A Congress of Nations." The competition is open to the undergraduates of all Massachusetts colleges. The judges will be Professor George H. Blakeslee of Clark University, Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University, and Miss Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke College...
...broadest features of the work is that of conducting boys clubs. Boston and Cambridge have been divided into six districts, including in all 35 settlement houses, each district supervised by one responsible man. In each settlement house there are about five boys clubs, led by college men. It is the duty of these club leaders to read to the boys, talk to them, teach them games, and generally to lead their meetings. The principle kept in mind is that no boy is born bad nor wants to be bad, and once shown that fair play and manliness is what...
Closely allied to the boys club work is that of the Home Library Committee. From each of the settlement house collections of about 15 books and some magazines are sent to the houses of several boys. These boys distribute the books among the other boys of the immediate neighborhood. When all of them have been read, they are returned and a new group sent out. A college man is assigned to each of these libraries, and has over the books with him, and his friends, and to read to them or amuse them in any way he sees...
Entertainments in Settlement Houses...
Another phase of Social Service is that of providing entertainments in the various settlement houses. There are two sorts of entertainment, both of which are eagerly looked forward to by the audiences whose changes of seeing real plays are very limited. In the first place college men give talks on such subjects as camping, which, being quite foreign to the settlement house audiences, are interesting doubly to them. The other form of entertainment is that afforded by singers, jugglers and the like...