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...Woods is an authority upon social settlement work. He has studied the conditions in various cities and was at one time connected with Toynbee Hall, London. He has been a member of the Public Bath Commission of Boston for the past eight years, and lecturer upon practical philanthropy at the Cambridge Episcopal Theological Seminary since 1896. During the past winter he has given a course on "Civic Problems" at Phillips Brooks House. Mr. Woods is the author of "English Social Movements," "The City Wilderness," and "The Making of Americans...
...performance of Shakespeare's comedy. "The Taming of the Shrew," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Radcliffe College Auditorium. The play will be repeated in the same place tomorrow evening at 8, and tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The proceeds will be devoted to the College Settlement Chapter, which does philanthropic work in different parts of Boston and Cambridge...
...Cole, of the South End House, Boston, will speak on "The Development of the Policy of a Social Settlement," at the second meeting of the course on civic problems at 7.30 o'clock this evening in the Randall room of Phillips Brooks House...
...common people the sociologist acquires the proper point of view for his problem. As the development of medical science has resulted in great discoveries, so the application of the scientific interest to social problems will undoubtedly bring great advances of vital importance to our "democratic experiment." As the university settlement aims to be a neutral ground where all the varied types of our society can meet on the basis of self-respecting humanity, the needs and dangers of our complicated social life can be better met and understood...
...university settlement is also intended to be a home among other homes--a group of forces to be complemented and finally replaced by the assumption--by the city--of the lines of activity then brought to universal notice...