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...prepared at the Middleborough High School. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1900 with the degree summa cum laude. During the past two years he has been an editor of the Law Review, and last year was head of its Recent Case department. His address is entitled "The Legal Settlement of Controversies between Nations...
...Clark '93, who is in charge of Gordon House, a well-known social settlement in New York City, is in need of an assistant for the summer, and would like to have a Harvard student take the position during the vacation...
Applicants should play baseball well, and be able to coach the first team of the house for its league games with other settlements. A considerable knowledge of sociology and economics is also required. The position offers a variety of opportunities for gaining an insight into settlement work, and is an excellent opening for anyone who desires to make such work his profession...
...natural that there should be jealousies and misunderstandings between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective efforts at the settlement of the labor problem must be directed. President Eliot has done a great deal in this direction by bringing laborers and employers together, by promoting free and frank discussion between them, by taking part in these discussions, and by setting at all times an example of patience and tolerance...
...meeting of the Graduate Club last night in Phillips Brooks House, Mr. Robert A. Woods, of the South End House, Boston, spoke on "The University Settlement as a Social Laboratory," tracing the aims of the Settlement and its work in investigating home life and educational questions. He also discussed the position of the laborer in regard to the labor question and explained the relation of politics to the poor...