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...important addition to the notable series of lectures already given in the Union this year will be that by Mr. H. Roswell Bates tonight upon "The New York Underworld." Mr. Bates, by reason of his long service as director of the famous Spring Street Settlement House, in New York, is peculiarly qualified to discuss the social problems presented by the "underworld" of the metropolis. His frank and vivid descriptions of the appalling evils arising from the congested life of the tenements have interested and aroused large audiences of college men at the Northfield Conferences, at Yale, at Princeton...
...conference of constructive criticism on social service will be held in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The conference will be attended by professional workers from most of the settlement houses of Greater Boston, by members of the Faculty, and especially by students who have engaged in settlement work this year...
...large number of settlement workers have volunteered to attend the conference and it is hoped that all men in the University who are interested in social service will be present...
...large extent can be shown merely by referring to the contributions made by American universities to the advancement of the welfare of the people. In the field of government, to use Harvard as an example, the fruits of co-operation between theorists and administrators have been large. In the settlement of tariff questions the work of Harvard professors has been of wide-spread influence and has directed the stream of public opinion into channels leading to scientific analysis and reasonable adjustment. The contributions of the Medical School to the science of preventive medicine and the important discoveries following medical research...
...another page we print a communication questioning the policy of Harvard in offering its support to a military or naval reserve on the ground that it detracts from the support which the University should give to the movement for international peace and the settlement of international disputes by arbitration. As expressing the views of a large number of men and as contrasted in sentiment with the enthusiasm with which the proposition of Captain Marsh was generally received, the communication is interesting as indicative of the diversity of student interests and opinions...