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  Speaker 1: Forward and Chapter one of the Social Settlement Movement in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: by Josephine Hunt Raymond forward and Chapter one. The Reason
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  Speaker 1: for the Social Settlement. This is a thesis submitted to
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  Speaker 1: the University of Wisconsin in eighteen ninety seven for the
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  Speaker 1: degree of Master of Letters. The world, which took but
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  Speaker 1: six days to make, is like to take six thousand
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  Speaker 1: to make out, Sir Thomas Brown. A few of the
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  Speaker 1: simpler human instincts are really necessary in any attempt to
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  Speaker 1: help human beings, Elizabeth Hastings. The moral and religious reformers
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  Speaker 1: should never forget that an order of time, material reform
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  Speaker 1: comes first, and that in less prop upper precedence be
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  Speaker 1: yielded to it, the higher ends of humanity are unattainable
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  Speaker 1: from problems of poverty. No social reform will be adequate
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  Speaker 1: which does not touch social relations. Buying classes by friendship
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  Speaker 1: and pass into through the medium of friendship the spirit
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  Speaker 1: which inspires righteousness and devotion, Essay Boynette Forward, The object
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  Speaker 1: of the following essay is not to display long columns
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  Speaker 1: of figures in proof that a certain required amount of
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  Speaker 1: original investigation has been done. It is rather to picture
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  Speaker 1: the settlement movement in Chicago as a whole, to describe
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  Speaker 1: the motives actuating the founders of the several settlements, and
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  Speaker 1: to bring out, as far as possible, the individuality in
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  Speaker 1: the work of each of the eleven settlements which are
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  Speaker 1: exerting so powerful an influence on the social life of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: The essay is of necessity incomplete, as the movement is
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  Speaker 1: as yet only current news, but the writer has endeavored
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  Speaker 1: to describe as accurately as possible the various points of
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  Speaker 1: view of the Chicago settlements. The chapter on Hull House
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  Speaker 1: is designed to illustrate the wide scope with which the
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  Speaker 1: various activities of a settlement may have, if successfully carried out.
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  Speaker 1: The seceding chapters aimed to present the peculiar circumstances attending
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  Speaker 1: the establishment of the various settlements and the special features
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  Speaker 1: of the work of each settlement. The appendix furnishes the
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  Speaker 1: important statistics connected with each settlement, so far as they
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  Speaker 1: could be gathered from personal observation and conversations with the residents.
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  Speaker 1: In the bibliography, the writer has given a list of
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  Speaker 1: the books and articles consulted, and, whenever possible, authorities have
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  Speaker 1: been cited in footnotes throughout the body of the essay.
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  Speaker 1: For most of the statements made, however, the writer's authority
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  Speaker 1: is her own observation and the observation of residents of
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  Speaker 1: the various settlement. To mention the names of all who
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  Speaker 1: have been helpful in giving personal information would be to
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  Speaker 1: name almost all the residents of the Chicago settlements. Miss
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  Speaker 1: Jane Adams of Hull House, missus Mary E. Sly and
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  Speaker 1: Miss Jesse Bartlett of Northwestern University Settlement. Miss Mary E.
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  Speaker 1: McDowell of the University of Chicago Settlement, Mister jacob Ott
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  Speaker 1: of b Maxwell Street Settlement, Miss Cordelia Kirkland of the
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  Speaker 1: Kirkland Settlement, and the Reverend N. B. W. Galway of
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  Speaker 1: the Clybourne Avenue Settlement. These are a few of the
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  Speaker 1: settlement workers who have been consulted and who are the
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  Speaker 1: writer's real authorities. To these friends she is indebted for
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  Speaker 1: most of her facts. Chapter one, The Reason for the
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  Speaker 1: Social Settlement, Emerson says, all great ages have been ages
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  Speaker 1: of relief. In all time there has been a saving
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  Speaker 1: remnant of society, composed of men and women who assert
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  Speaker 1: it that man is his brother keeper, who endeavored to
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  Speaker 1: relieve the unfortunate and reclaim the vicious. During the last century,
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  Speaker 1: a great wave of humanitarianism has swept over the world.
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  Speaker 1: Interest in man as man is supplanting the interest in mankind.
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  Speaker 1: We are beginning to realize that society is an organism
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  Speaker 1: made up of many parts, all interdependent. We are slowly
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  Speaker 1: coming to see that we cannot have a perfect or
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  Speaker 1: even a comfortable society until the terrible mental, moral, and
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  Speaker 1: physical inequalities now existing our remedy to our sorrow. We
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  Speaker 1: are learning the relentless truth that sin and misery in
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  Speaker 1: the lower ranks of society infect the upper ranks, That
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  Speaker 1: ignorance in the lower ranks reacts upon the higher, That
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  Speaker 1: idleness and extravagance in the higher produce a terrible harvest
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  Speaker 1: of deprivation and agony in the submerged. Tenth, we are
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  Speaker 1: coming to see these things with clearer eyes. Our ideals
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  Speaker 1: of life for growing more elevated. A useless life is
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  Speaker 1: no longer considered meritorious, though it may be that of
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  Speaker 1: a patrician idler. Wealth may and does cover a multitude
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  Speaker 1: of sins when devoted to great philanthropic purposes, but it
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  Speaker 1: cannot excuse those sins in the eyes of the conscientious.
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  Speaker 1: We are craving and receiving moral enlightenment. We want higher education,
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  Speaker 1: purer morals, cleaner politics. We are trying many remedies for
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  Speaker 1: social ills. We have municipal leagues, civic federations, charity organizations,
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  Speaker 1: free fellowships, and scholarships for our universities. All these are
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  Speaker 1: means to the great end of uplifting men's ideals in
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  Speaker 1: every department of life and of work. I believe we
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  Speaker 1: are on the right track. The methods we are employing
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  Speaker 1: are educational ones. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that in order
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  Speaker 1: to reform a man, we must begin with his ancestors.
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  Speaker 1: In order to ensure a safe and enlightened life for
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  Speaker 1: our children and their descendants, we must instill into their
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  Speaker 1: minds the principles of good citizenship, of true morality, of
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  Speaker 1: splendid humanity. They must be made to feel responsibility for
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  Speaker 1: their kind resting upon them. True democracy in its best
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  Speaker 1: sense must be taught them. In our universities. The same
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  Speaker 1: democracy must be insisted upon. Civic responsibility, too, must be inculcated.
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  Speaker 1: In a generation where this course faithfully followed, we should
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  Speaker 1: have a purer world in a regenerated society. Some may
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  Speaker 1: well object, this is well enough for the wealth to
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  Speaker 1: do for those for whom life is not a struggle.
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  Speaker 1: What of those who did not even know the meaning
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  Speaker 1: of education, of moral responsibility, of mental independence. To this
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  Speaker 1: there is but one answer. Man is his brother's keeper.
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  Speaker 1: The enlightened must help the blind. The morally well must
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  Speaker 1: help the morally sick. This is being done in the
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  Speaker 1: best and most complete way in that agency which, after
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  Speaker 1: careful analysis, I place first in the list of remedies
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  Speaker 1: for the sorrow and sin of the world, the social settlement.
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  Speaker 1: The social settlement appeals to every earnest worker in society
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  Speaker 1: because it touches every side of man's nature. The very
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  Speaker 1: aim of the social settlement is to develop many sightedness,
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  Speaker 1: both in the worker and those whom the settlement is
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  Speaker 1: trying to reach. The moral life of the community is
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  Speaker 1: purified and strengthened by contact with those living with high aims.
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  Speaker 1: Ever before them, the mental life is recreated by wholesome instruction.
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  Speaker 1: The social nature is freshened by diversified recreation, by enlivening
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  Speaker 1: society by contact with other natures. A better physical life
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  Speaker 1: is encouraged by constant suggestions of wholesome exercise, of cleanliness,
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  Speaker 1: of decent living. The better life is the motto of
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  Speaker 1: every branch of settlement work. The need for the social
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  Speaker 1: settlement today, however, is not only objective but subjective. Tennyson
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  Speaker 1: says that it is more life and fuller that we want.
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  Speaker 1: Life grows fuller and richer and sweeter for every effort
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  Speaker 1: for others. It was by sharing his last crust with
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  Speaker 1: a leper that Sir loundfall at the revelation of the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: It is a dangerous thing to cramp a young soul.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest wrong which can be done to the faculties
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  Speaker 1: is to deny them their proper exercise. There are many
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  Speaker 1: gifted young men and women who have inherent powers of execution, which,
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  Speaker 1: exercised would revolutionize this world of ours. The life repressed
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  Speaker 1: within itself and prevented from guiding and moving and strengthening
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  Speaker 1: other lives, is as sadisfied as that life which knows
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  Speaker 1: nothing of the wide free life. Some were waiting for it,
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  Speaker 1: young life, young purpose ought to have full play. If
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  Speaker 1: it is not sent wisely into the channels of philanthropic effort,
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  Speaker 1: it will either stagnate or rush in harmful currents through society.
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  Speaker 1: One of the greatest truths impressed upon me during my
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  Speaker 1: observation of the work of the social settlement is that
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  Speaker 1: the life and experience of the resident worker among the
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  Speaker 1: poor grows grand and sweet and beautiful in proportion as
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  Speaker 1: he gives himself to those who need him. I've been
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  Speaker 1: impressed with a splendid self control, the beneficent sacrifice, the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of sympathy displayed by settlement workers, who, in giving
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  Speaker 1: themselves to those lacking in moral and intellectual poise, grow
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  Speaker 1: to majestic stature in those very qualities whose lack their
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  Speaker 1: own giving supplied. The objective need for the social settlement
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  Speaker 1: is only too well known. General Booth, W. T. Stead,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor L. A. Banks, Miss Jane Adams, B. O. Flower,
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  Speaker 1: and many others have portrayed only too well the needs
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  Speaker 1: of the crowded city. They are hotbeds of vice and disease,
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  Speaker 1: where direct protests and interposition are an absolute necessity. There
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  Speaker 1: are communities of working pieceeople whose lives are a dull monotony,
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  Speaker 1: and who need recreative interest infused into life whole wards
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  Speaker 1: are peopled by foreigners who know nothing of our country
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  Speaker 1: save as a place in which to live and make
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  Speaker 1: a living. They are totally ignorant of the meaning of
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  Speaker 1: our government or of our ideals as a nation. These
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  Speaker 1: must be reached and taught if we would not give
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  Speaker 1: our great cities over to the machinations of the politician,
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  Speaker 1: whose tools are the ignorant foreign population. There are the
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  Speaker 1: evils of sweatshops and crowded factories, to guard against prostitution,
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  Speaker 1: to cope with the fascinating saloon, to outwit all sides
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  Speaker 1: of life must be responded to. The Social Settlement is
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  Speaker 1: trying to do all these things, and by so responding
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  Speaker 1: it aims to renovate the atmosphere of the community in
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  Speaker 1: which it is carrying on its work. In seceding chapters,
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  Speaker 1: I shall endeavor to show in detail the development of
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  Speaker 1: the idea of the social Settlement in the city of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: An effort has been made to discover what are the
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  Speaker 1: peculiar needs of certain communities, and various means have been
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  Speaker 1: employed to supply these needs. The history of the growth
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  Speaker 1: of the Social Settlement in Chicago is the record of
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  Speaker 1: the gradual quickening of social consciousness and the congruent work
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  Speaker 1: of social reorganization, with its corollary of amelioration of social conditions.
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  Speaker 1: I do not intend to convey the impression that I
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  Speaker 1: believe a social millennium is at hand, but with a
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  Speaker 1: profound conviction that social salvation can come only from association
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  Speaker 1: and cooperation of the morally strong with the morally weak,
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  Speaker 1: of the enlightened with the ignorant. I see unmistakable signs
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  Speaker 1: of help at hand. The soul is stirred at the
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  Speaker 1: sight of a few strong, dauntless men and women, educating
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  Speaker 1: and uplifting the ignorant, and meeting invincibly the corrupt ward
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  Speaker 1: politician and the spoilsmen. But while it may seem like
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  Speaker 1: but a bit of leavin in a great mass of corruption,
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  Speaker 1: still a little level leveneth the whole lump and of
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  Speaker 1: forward and Chapter one Chapter two of the Social Settlement
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  Speaker 1: Movement in Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond. The LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Chapter two, The Genesis of
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  Speaker 1: the Social Settlement Movement. The Social Settlement as it exists
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  Speaker 1: today in Chicago is the child of the English social settlement.
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  Speaker 1: We in America have not hesitated to model our settlements
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  Speaker 1: after English ones, which year after year are gaining a
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  Speaker 1: strongerhold on the lower classes in the large cities of
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  Speaker 1: England by their work of practical reforms. The social settlement
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  Speaker 1: as an institution is young, previous to the founding of
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  Speaker 1: Toney Hall in eighteen eighty six. In eighteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: efficient work had been done among the poor of East
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  Speaker 1: London by many philanthropically disposed, among them Charles Kingsley in
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  Speaker 1: his capacity of clergymen, and by John Ruskin as prophet
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  Speaker 1: of the beauty of social service. It was at Oxford
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  Speaker 1: that the great impulse to lead the working classes up
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  Speaker 1: toward a loftier plane of living originated. Thomas Hill Green
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  Speaker 1: stirred the moral natures of the young men of Oxford
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  Speaker 1: by his inspiring teachings. In eighteen sixty Frederick Denison Morris
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  Speaker 1: established the Workingmen's College, drawing upon Cambridge graduates for the
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  Speaker 1: teachers of his classes. Seven years later, Edward Denison went
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  Speaker 1: to the Reverend John Richard Greene, vicar of Saint Philip's
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  Speaker 1: Stepney and begged the privilege of living and working among
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  Speaker 1: his parishioners. Though endowed with wealth and social rank, Denison
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  Speaker 1: took lodgings among the people of the parish and worked
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  Speaker 1: with them the few remaining years of his life. In
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  Speaker 1: eighteen seventy five, Arnold Toynbee, one of the saintliest souls
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  Speaker 1: who ever strove to redeem this world from its misery
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  Speaker 1: and vice, spent a summer vacation in Whitechapel. Thenceforth his
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  Speaker 1: best thought and effort were given to the needs of society.
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  Speaker 1: Toynbee's character is one which fairly thrills one for its earnestness,
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  Speaker 1: its purity, its greatness of purpose. He was the friend
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  Speaker 1: and disciple of Thomas ill Green and John Ruskin, and
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  Speaker 1: the guide and counselor of many of Oxford's strongest and
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  Speaker 1: best young men. In eighteen seventy nine he settled among
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  Speaker 1: the poor of East London. He invited workingmen to his lodgings.
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  Speaker 1: By his cordiality and spotless character, he won their confidence.
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  Speaker 1: He led them to the consideration of social and economic questions.
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  Speaker 1: He addressed them my questions of the time, But his
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  Speaker 1: frail body yielded to overwork, and he was carried from
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  Speaker 1: the platform where he was lecturing to workingmen to his
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  Speaker 1: death bed. He died in eighteen eighty three. Workingmen and
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  Speaker 1: university scholars alike born deeply. When the saintly earnest life
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  Speaker 1: went out, it seemed as though a savior of the
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  Speaker 1: poor and the ignorant had suddenly and cruelly been snatched away.
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  Speaker 1: The attention of the London well to do was at
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  Speaker 1: this time centered on the deplorable condition of the poor
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  Speaker 1: in East London. Various plans of relief were proposed. Friends
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  Speaker 1: mourning Toynbee's untimely death proposed that a hall should be
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  Speaker 1: rented for the use of workingmen, and courses of lectures
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  Speaker 1: be given for the benefit of the poor, the purpose
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  Speaker 1: being to elevate, if possible, the aims in the standard
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  Speaker 1: of life in East London. This hall was to be
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  Speaker 1: known as Toynbee Hall, in memory of the self sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: of the beautiful spirit which once dwelt here among the lowly.
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  Speaker 1: It was further proposed that university men be induced to
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  Speaker 1: settle here in so strengthened, if possible, the bond between
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  Speaker 1: the educated and the ignorant. The plan was inaugurated with
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  Speaker 1: the greatest success. Toynbee Hall, the first social settlement, was
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  Speaker 1: open January first, eighteen eighty five, with the new year
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  Speaker 1: blossomed an idea whose magnitude is only just beginning to
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  Speaker 1: be realized. Toynbee Hall is located in Commercial Street, Whitechapel,
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  Speaker 1: East London. The warden is the Reverend s A. Barnett,
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  Speaker 1: for many years Vicar of Saint Jude's. A regular force
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  Speaker 1: of residents and a body of associates carrying on the
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  Speaker 1: work of the settlement instructional and social. There is at
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  Speaker 1: once the classic atmosphere of the university and the home
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  Speaker 1: life of the residents. Each resident and associate has some
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  Speaker 1: duty which brings him into close touch with the people
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  Speaker 1: of Whitechapel. The work of Toynbee Hall is of so
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  Speaker 1: diversified a character that it is almost impossible to give
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  Speaker 1: any adequate idea of its wide reaching capacity in a
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  Speaker 1: few paragraphs. Moreover, essentially the same work is being done
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  Speaker 1: at Hull House, which is in most senses the child
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  Speaker 1: of Toynbee Hall. The primary aim of Toynbee Hall is
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  Speaker 1: to bring the working people of Whitechapel into the social
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere of the settlement. The rooms are open to them
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  Speaker 1: for clubs or entertainments or business. There are classes in
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  Speaker 1: all branches of instruction, and charitable in labor organizations whose
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  Speaker 1: meetings are all held at Toynbee Hall. In every possible sense,
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  Speaker 1: Toynbee Hall is the center of the best and highest
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  Speaker 1: life of the community. Its connection with the universities is
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  Speaker 1: kept strong by frequent visits of students and professors from
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  Speaker 1: Oxford and Cambridge, and by university extension lectures. The work
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  Speaker 1: is supported by contributions from the universities, by fees from
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  Speaker 1: the University Settlement Association, and by sums from interested friends.
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  Speaker 1: Residents and visitors pay their board, and expenses are marvelously low.
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  Speaker 1: For so great a work. Toynbee Hall takes no sectarian
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  Speaker 1: or partisan. At itsitude. All shades of political and religious
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  Speaker 1: opinion come together. The position of nearly all the residents
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  Speaker 1: on economic and social questions is somewhat more conservative than
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  Speaker 1: one might expect. As to religious preferences, there have been
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  Speaker 1: among the residents churchmen, Nonconformists, Roman Catholics, Jews, and unsectarians.
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  Speaker 1: The absence of official connection with religious effort has thus
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  Speaker 1: made it possible to bring together into a working unity
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  Speaker 1: a wide variety of men. In this way, an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: of social service has been open to men who never
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  Speaker 1: would have associated themselves with any religious movement. The whole
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  Speaker 1: of Toynbee whole life and work, however, as the essential
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  Speaker 1: spirit of Christianity. In it, each man shows respect for
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  Speaker 1: the convictions of every other. Brownings says, each deed thou
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  Speaker 1: hast done, dies, revives, goes to work in the world.
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  Speaker 1: So the life purpose of Arnold Toynbee, perpetuated in the
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  Speaker 1: work of toynbay Bey Hall, is not confined to that institution.
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  Speaker 1: Soon after the establishing of Toynbee Hall in eighteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: Oxford House began its work at bethnal Green, East London.
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  Speaker 1: The great point of difference between Toynbee Hall and Oxford
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  Speaker 1: House is in their attitude towards religion. The founders of
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  Speaker 1: Toynbee Hall removed every obstacle which might come in the
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  Speaker 1: way of their work from religious prejudice. Oxford House declared
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  Speaker 1: its motto to be the Christian faith. The work is
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  Speaker 1: above all religious work. The great aim of the workers
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  Speaker 1: is to reconcile the workingmen and the church. With this difference,
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  Speaker 1: only the two settlements have the same great aim, the
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  Speaker 1: unifying of the upper and lower strata of society through
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  Speaker 1: the medium of common interests in common life. The social
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  Speaker 1: work of Oxford House has been a splendid success. A
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  Speaker 1: number of large clubs are under the direct supervision of
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  Speaker 1: Oxford House. The largest and most powerful of these, the
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  Speaker 1: University Club, starting with less than a dozen members, has
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  Speaker 1: increased to a membership of two thousand. Its clubhouse is
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  Speaker 1: one of the most attractive in England, with its billiard room,
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  Speaker 1: reading room, classrooms, etc. Through the efforts of mister P. R. Buchanan,
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  Speaker 1: the University Club carries on cooperative enterprises of various kinds,
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  Speaker 1: a general store, a boot and Shoemaker's cooperative Society, a
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  Speaker 1: dispensary alone association, a bookstore, and a large working woman's
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  Speaker 1: cooperative association. Oxford House is the center of the Federation
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  Speaker 1: of Workingmen Social Clubs, embracing forty three non political and
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  Speaker 1: non alcoholic clubs with a total of nearly four thousand members.
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  Speaker 1: Great good has been done by the secretaries and communities
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  Speaker 1: appointed by the residents of Oxford House to investigate sanitary
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  Speaker 1: affairs in all matters having to do with high ideals
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  Speaker 1: of social citizenship. In eighteen eighty nine the women's branch
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  Speaker 1: of Oxford House began work. Its settlement is known as
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  Speaker 1: Saint Margaret's House. Its aim is to provide a center
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  Speaker 1: from which women with time, talent and experience at their
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  Speaker 1: disposal can work to do for the women and girls
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  Speaker 1: of Beth mc green what the Oxford House is doing
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  Speaker 1: for the men and boys. Mansfield House, founded in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety at Cannington, London, is now well known from the
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  Speaker 1: skillful supervision of its warden, Mister Percy Alden. The following
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  Speaker 1: words of praise have been written of Mansfield House. The
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  Speaker 1: Mansfield House leads all the other settlements of the world
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  Speaker 1: in grappling with the problem of poverty and with the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: problem of the unemployed. Some idea of the immense work
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: on the hands of the Mansfield Home during the past
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: year may be gained from the fact that the weather
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: was colder in London than in New York, that the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: people were unprepared for it, and that under these conditions
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  Speaker 1: not less than twelve thousand men were out of work,
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  Speaker 1: and that of this number most had not been able
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  Speaker 1: to make any provision for this emergency. Mansfield House fed
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  Speaker 1: from six to eight thousand persons a day. The inhabitants
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  Speaker 1: forming the community in which Mansfield House is located are dockers,
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  Speaker 1: occupying miles of streets in their little four or six
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: roomed houses, two or more families in every house. The
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  Speaker 1: district is not so degraded as Whitechapel or Bethnal Green,
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  Speaker 1: but furnishes nevertheless abundant opportunities for good work of every kind.
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  Speaker 1: In many respects, Mansfield House is the most comprehensive of
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  Speaker 1: all these social settlements. It includes religious as well as
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: educational work of the most thorough kind. There are many clubs,
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  Speaker 1: one devoted to workingmen who are given training in citizenship,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: another to youth who receive instruction in handicraft, and various
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: other organizations. The Settlement of Women's Workers, found in eighteen
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: ninety two, may be found at Canning Town, East London.
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  Speaker 1: This settlement has been developed upon a religious, though not
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: sectarian basis. The work of the settlement has been done
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: principally along two lines, visiting the homes of the people
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and helping agencies already in existence as the Factory, Girls Club,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Mother's Meetings, the Medical Mission, the Children's Cheap Dinners in
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the winter and in the summer, the Flower Mission, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Children's Country Holidays. Leighton Hall Neighborhood Guild at Kentish Town, London,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: was founded in eighteen eighty nine. The originator of the project,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: doctor Stanton Coit, said of the settlement, we hope to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: make a moral oasis of it. The very name Neighborhood
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Guild suggests the fundamental idea which this new institution embodies,
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  Speaker 1: namely that, irrespective of religious belief or non belief, all
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the people, men, women and children, and any one street
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: or any small number of streets, in every working district
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  Speaker 1: of London, shall be organized into a set of clubs
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  Speaker 1: which are by themselves or in alliance with those of
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  Speaker 1: other neighborhoods, to carry out or induce others to carry
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  Speaker 1: out all the reforms domestic, industrial, educational, provident or recreative
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  Speaker 1: which the social ideal demands at the outset. A true
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: insight into the spirit and methods of the Guild will
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: perhaps be gained most readily by noting that it is
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: an expansion of the family idea of cooperation. One of
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the growing settlements of London. Founded in eighteen eighty nine
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: is Trinity College Settlement at Camberwell, South London. This has
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: already become a most important factor in social life among
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the workingmen of its community. The settlement followed the establishment
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: of Trinity Mission in eighteen eighty five. The residents are
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a clerical staff and a number of lay residents. The
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: settlement will be a Cambridge House in time, sustaining the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: same relation to Cambridge as Oxford House does to Oxford.
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  Speaker 1: Attention is paid to intellectual, manual and athletic training, while
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the cultivation of social needs is not neglected. Trinity Court,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: as the settlement is called, is now the headquarters for
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a federation of workmen's clubs of South London. A popular
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: settlement and one not distinctly a university settlement is that
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  Speaker 1: known as University Hall. Found it in eighteen ninety one
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  Speaker 1: mainly by the efforts of Missus Humphrey Ward. University Hall
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: is situated in Gordon Square in the west central part
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  Speaker 1: of London, about a half a mile from the Chancery
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  Speaker 1: Lane slums. The movement which resulted in the founding of
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: University Hall is identified with the Unitarian Church missus Ward's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: object was to give free scope to a new spirit
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  Speaker 1: of Christian discipleship. Beyond sympathy with the general work of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a hall, residents might be as liberal as possible in
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: religious matters. The study of social and industrial questions has
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  Speaker 1: always been prominent in the minds of the founders and residents,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and lecture courses are given on subjects calculated to enlighten
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  Speaker 1: the working people regarding the great needs of the time
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  Speaker 1: and the best methods to supply those needs. I will
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: speak of only one more settlement of London, the Women's
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: University Settlement, found in eighteen eighty seven. Much of the
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: splendid work done by the residents of this settlement was
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: inspired by Miss Octavia Hill of London, famed for her
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: tenement work with John Ruskin. One of the residents. Under
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the direction of Miss Hill, manages seven courts of cottages
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: near the settlement, collecting rents, supervising repairs, trying to prevent overcrowding,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and visiting the tenants in a friendly way. Much attention
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: is paid to the recreation of the children of the neighborhood.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: There are classes, clubs and entertainments. As in the other settlements,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: other settlements in London are as follows Allcroft Road Neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: Guild Northwest London, Mayfield House, bethemol Green, East London, Newman
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  Speaker 1: House Southeast London, Robert Browning Hall, South London, Bermondsey Settlement
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Southeast London, Woman's House of Bermondsea Settlement London, Pembroke College Mission,
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  Speaker 1: London College of Women Workers London, York House, North London,
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  Speaker 1: Friends New East End Mission, East London, and Rugby House,
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  Speaker 1: West London. Outside of London, the following settlements have been organized.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: University Settlement Scheme, Manchester, England, Toynbee House, Glasgow, Scotland, Student Settlement, Glasgow, Scotland,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Chalmers University Settlement, Edinburgh, New College Settlement, Edinburgh and aar
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Insha the House of Brotherly Love in Keyoto, Japan. The
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Social Settlement in America is, as been said, the child
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of the English social settlement, and differs but little from
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it in kind or in the means employed to inspire
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the community in which it carries on its work. The
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: first social settlement of New York was founded by mister
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Stanton Cooit in eighteen eighty seven. He began his work
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of reform and socialization by inviting to his own apartments,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: which he had rented in a tenement house in New York,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: a number of young men informed a men's club. The
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: number increased so that a basement of the tenement in
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: which he lived was rented as a club room. The
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: clubs increased in number, one being formed for young women,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: one for little girls, and one for little boys. Soon
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a kindergarten came into being. These various organized bodies now
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: become very numerous, formed the Neighborhood Guild. The motto of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the Guild is order is our basis, improvement our aim,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and friendship our principle. The Guild's methods of entertainment and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: education are like those of Toynbee Hall. Their are clubs
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  Speaker 1: of many kinds. Classes in clay modeling, wood carving, debating,
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  Speaker 1: public declamation, parliamentary practices, singing, drawing, gymnastic and military drill.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Every opportunity is given for social leaven of the right
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: sort to work upon the people come to the club rooms. Moreover,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the idea of practical reform is constantly held before the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: minds of the members. These small fees collected from the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: members aid in keeping the streets of the immediate neighborhood
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: clean during the summer. Relief is often afforded the sick
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: from the same source. It is estimated that no less
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: than forty social settlements have followed the lead of the
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Neighborhood Guild in the United States. These settlements differ but
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: little in their ultimate ends, though the personnel and convictions
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: of the residents shape the particular policy of each institution.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: The principal settlements in New York City at the present
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: time are as follows. New York College Settlement, East Side House,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Association House, Church Settlement House, Alumni College House Settlement, Community House,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Phelps Settlement, All Souls, Friendly Aid House, Nurses Settlement, and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Union Theological Seminary Settlement. In Buffalo, New York, Westminster House
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: is doing social settlement work with success. In Philadelphia, the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: following social settlements have been established Philadelphia's Settlement, Princeton House,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Minster Street, Neighborhood Guild, and Saint Peter's House. There are
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: several flourishing settlements in Boston, among them the following Dennison
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: House Andover House, Boston College Settlement, Epworth League House, Dorothea House,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and Hale House. In Louisville, Kentucky, the Louisville Neighborhood House
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: has recently been opened. The King's Daughters have found the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: King's Daughter's Settlement in Des Moines, Iowa. Even in the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: far West, the idea of the Social Settlement is favorably received.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: The Man's in West Oakland, California, was found not long since.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Thus the movement has gained a strong foothold throughout our land.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: The forces at work in the settlement have their roots
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: in human sympathy. With this beginning, expansion comes as naturally
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and as easily as the plant grows upward to the light.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: The greatest need of the human heart to day is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: for sympathy, for friendship, for cordiality. We may have most
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: elaborate schemes for relieving the condition of the poor, but
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: if we omit sympathy in our direct dealings with them,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: we shall have a body of charity without the soul
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: of love in it. End of chapter two, Chapter three
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: of the Social Settlement Movement in Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: This librivog re coorting as in the public domain Chapter
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: three Hull House. In September eighteen eighty nine, Miss Jane
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Adams and Miss Allen Starr inaugurated the work of the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: social settlement known as Hull House. Both were women of
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: means and education, and permeated with a desire to be
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of use to the unfortunate people of Chicago. After a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: careful study of social conditions, they decided that social intercourse
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and social education would go far to better the lot
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: of the poor and ignorant. They saw that the prime
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: factor in civilization is discontent, that the satisfied do not
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: strive for the higher life, and that the two great
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: steps to be taken toward reaching their goal the bettering
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: of social conditions, were first to create a kind of
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: divine discontent among the poor, second to put within their
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: reach the means for improving their lives and homes. The
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: medium which these women chose was the social Settlement, which
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: should become a center for all good things moral stamina,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: intellectual nourishment, social recreation. The founders had no wish to
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: pose as charity dispenses nor as reformers. They simply wished
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: to form a home in a community where good influence
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: were rare, to set the standard for refined and earnest living.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: In Miss Adams's own words, Hull House seeks to make
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: social intercourse express the growing sense of the economic unity
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: of society. It is an attempt to add the social
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: function to democracy. The young Englishman, when pressed for a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: definition of a settlement, after trying to word his definition comprehensively,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: set at last, in desperation, Why hang it, madam? We settle?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: So Miss Adams and Miss Starr settled, realizing that permanence
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: is the greatest element of success. A prosaic admirer of
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Hull House, in trying to express his satisfaction at its
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: enduring qualities and at the same time deprecating its location,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: remarked that it was well grounded in the mud. Hull
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: House stands on South Halstead Street, adjoining Polk. The original
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: mansion stands between two large brick buildings of recent construction.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Was built in eighteen fifty eight by Charles J. Hull,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: a real estate dealer, and still retains the name of
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: its builder. In those days it was a stately family mansion,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and even now it has not lost its look of
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: aristocratic dignity, lent by its wide door in great windows.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: At the death of mister Hull, the property passed to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Miss Culver, his niece, who has given it rent free
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: until nineteen twenty to Miss Adams for the purpose to
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: which it is now put. On either side of the
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: house stood rickety buildings which have since been removed to
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: make way for beautiful red brick buildings Butler Gallery on
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the south, the Children's building on the north. Adjoining the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: house on Polk Street is the Gymnasium building. The upper
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: floor devoted to the spacious gymnasium, the lower to the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: coffee house and kitchen, facing Polk Street to the south
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: at two fifty three Ewing Street. Inside of the south
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: windows of Hull House is the building devoted to the
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Jaine Club, a co operative club of young women. At
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: two forty five Polk Street. Across from the coffee house
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: lived the Palings Club, a young men's co operative club.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: The children's playground is on Polk Street a few doors
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to the east. These features will be described in detail
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: later on. Miss Adams chose as a fitting place for
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: her settlement one of the worst districts in Chicago, a
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: sweatshop district in the nineteenth ward. The ward contains means
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: a population of fifty thousand inhabitants of almost every nationality.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: It was the very diversity of population and variety of occupation,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: which led to the choice of residence. South Halsted Street
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  Speaker 1: is thirty two miles long. Polk Street crosses Halsted midway
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: between the stockyards to the south and the shipbuilding yards
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: on the north branch of the Chicago River. Between Halsted
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Street and the river lived ten thousand Italians. To the
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: south on Twelfth Street lives a German colony. On side
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: streets are many Polish and Russian Jews. Farther south still,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the Jews give way to a large Bohemian colony. To
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the northwest of Hull House live Canadian French in a
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: clannish group. To the north are the Irish West, and
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: farther north are the better class of English speaking. The
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: streets of this ward are of the dirtiest or word
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Before Miss Johnson, the Hull House Inspector, undertook the work
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: of seeing that they were claimed. Hundreds of houses are
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: not connected with the main sewer. There is bad lighting,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: miserable paving or not at all in school buildings, most
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: inadequate for the number of children living in the ward.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: The houses are almost all wooden structures. There are many
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: back tenements. The faucet in the backyard is the only
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: water supply. For great numbers of houses, there are no
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: fire escapes. This condition of things is made still more
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: hopeless by the fact that the better class of people
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: move out of the ward as soon as possible, giving
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: it over to the ignorant immigrant. There are two hundred
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and fifty five saloons in the ward, one saloon for
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: every twenty eight voters. Seven churches and two missions attend
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: to the souls of the inhabitants in the ward, and
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: only three of these is the service in English. In
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a district like this, certainly there is need of work
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: of all kinds. Miss Adams asserts that all the functions
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: of a hull house may be grouped along four lines,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: social education, humanitarian, and civic. Clearly these lines will overlap.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Social clubs have educational features, while the humanitarian may prevail
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: throughout both, and the direct purpose of all three may
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: be made to subserve the ends of civic uprightness. The
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: primary aim of the settlement is, however, social, and abundant
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: opportunities are offered to people of the district for cultivating
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: this side of their natures. The social atmosphere is strong
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: in and about Hull House. I cannot say with any
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: degree of certainty to what extent the residence of Hull
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: House have the trust of the foreign population surrounding it.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: But there is a constant stream from the outside world
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: pouring through its doors on various errands, matters of life
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: and death, matters of poverty, efforts to get work, every
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: sort of plea, with a seeming faith in the power
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: of Hull House to grant every request. Friday evening was
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: first devoted to the German neighbors of the house, Saturday
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: evening to the Italian. Though these receptions were successful in
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the highest degree, pressure of the work is crowded them
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: out for a time at least. Besides these informal social gatherings,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: receptions are given at regular intervals by the various organizations
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: which bring a constant current of social life into the house.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: During one of my stays at Hull House, during one
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: week alone, occurred a number of most unique gatherings. In
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: the beautiful Butler Art Gallery, I attended a fine art
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: exhibit to which the neighbors were bidden. People of all
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: classes and clothing came. Only a small collection of pictures
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: was shown, but these were properly catalog. After the exhibit
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: came a reception at Isis. There was some awkwardness, to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: be sure, one would see the same thing in any
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: great drawing room of sweldom. The beautiful feature of this
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: was that one saw something. Besides awkwardness, there was appreciation
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: in every face for the treat artistic and s On
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: another evening occurred a reception given by the Laundry Employees Union,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: on another one by the Watson Social Club, others by
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: other organizations. A week of festivity, closing with a grand
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: function undertaken by the Working Women's Council. The educational work
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: of Hull House has from the first been substantial and beneficial.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: The founders of Hull House believe that if this old
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: world is to be regenerated, we must begin with the children,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and so kindergarten work was undertaken at the outset. English, Irish, German,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Russian and Italian were gathered into the beautiful dining room
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: of Hull House for three hours of each day from
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: nine to twelve. Experienced kindergarteners were employed to care for them,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: and the institution grew into high favour in the neighborhood,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: chiefly perhaps because it was free Miss Adams likes to
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: describe the admiration of the mothers, whose astonishment at the
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: miracle of Hull House, being willing to put up where
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the children knew no bounds. Two years ago the children's
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: building at the north of the main building was built.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: It is the gift of mister Charles mother Smith, whose
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: hearty support of the work of Hull House has from
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the first been most inspiring. The building is most beautiful
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: in all its appointments. It is four stories high, with
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: two broad balconies on the front and south, which make
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: delightful play spaces for the little ones in summer. On
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the third floor of this building you may find the kindergarten,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: a large school room with adjoining cupboards and bathrooms furnish
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: ample space for the children's work. Let us go into
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the school room, where five days in each week from
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: nine till twelve, we shall find fifty little ones with
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: as happy faces as one can find in this sorrowful
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: world of ours. The room is cheerful and beautiful. The
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: dark red walls make the darkest day seem Light windows
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: light the room on three sides, and on the fourth
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: are generous cupboards for material. A brick fireplace is opposite
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the door. On the wall hang pictures from Malaise and
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Breton mus Starr. The kindergartener in charge is a graduate
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: of missus Putnam School, and her work shows the highest
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: degree of efficiency. The day begins with music. The children
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: forget their miserable home surroundings as they sing of beautiful
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: growing things which many of them have never seen, or
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: of singing birds unknown in smoky Halsted Street. In the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: middle of the session, a tiny lunch of crackers is
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: given the children, who vie with one another to pass them,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: learning all the time lessons of gentleness and courtesy. Then
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: come games, where fairness, politeness, a sense of beauty are taught,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: where graceful swaying motion teaches rhythm and harmony, and where
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: a real joy of life is put into the day.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: For the time being at least, the class work of
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Hull House, though considered a subordinate part of its function,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: is growing rapidly in importance. It was, however, a day
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: disappointment to me that so few of the objectly ignorant
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: were to be seen in the classes. Young men and
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: women of imperfect education, clerks, teachers in the lower grades
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: of the city schools. These are found in the advanced classes,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: but almost no men and women, who, realizing their utter
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: lack of education, wish even at this late day, to
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: supply their needs such as these, go to the night
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: sessions of Chicago's public schools. Classes are formed in almost
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: every branch of learning. The teachers are either residents, teachers
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: from the various institutions in the city, or people of
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: leisure who wish to extend the sphere of their usefulness.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: All give their services. The classes are arranged in terms
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: of twelve weeks. The fees for advanced classes are fifty
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: cents a term. No class is formed for less than
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: six pupils. Upon the payment of the fee, each student
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: receives a card which is called for by the teacher
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: of each class at the end of the third week
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: of the term. The April Bulletin of Hull House offers
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: twenty four courses of work for advanced students covering the
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: following subjects. In science, a course in physiology offered by
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: doctor Dorothea Moore, Physics by mister Kaufman, astronomy by mister Lemoyne,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Mathematics a course in elementary algebra offered by mister Kaufman
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Advanced Algebra again by mister Kaufman, and Geometry offered by
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Miss Oakley. In language, a course in Greek is offered
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: by mister Moore. In Latin Advanced offered by mister Moore,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Latin Intermediate by Miss Young, Latin Beginning again, Miss Young,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: German Advance, Miss Petersen German Intermediate, Miss Feugue German Elementary,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Miss Fugue. Psychology a course in educational psychology offered by
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: mister Moore. Art is related to to Life offered by
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Miss Starr, Art is Related to Life, and Religion offered
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: by Mister Twoes. Four courses in drawing are offered by
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: missus Benedict West and Hannis and mister Whitney, a course
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: in Painting by Miss Benedict, a course in Embroidery by
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Miss Hannig and the art classes. The attendance averages fifteen
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: students and in the other classes ten. The courses offered
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: for secondary classes are given free. They include the following
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: branches of instruction. Mathematics, work and arithmetic offered by Miss Kerry.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: In English, Grammar and letter writing offered by Miss Boynton.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: English Speaking for Russians offered by Miss Thomas in art
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: clay modeling by Miss Benedict sewing offered by missus Bettman.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: The secondary classes are much larger, all except the class
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: in art, averaging twenty. The class in clay modeling average
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: is fifteen. There is little doubt that the class work
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: done here is beneficial. The faculty is excellent, the spirit
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: is eager. A great deal of tutoring goes on all
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: the time among the students themselves at the Hull House.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Happening into one of the pleasant rooms on the ground
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: floor used as classrooms in the children's building, I saw
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: two bright jewesses, perhaps sixteen and eighteen, respectively, the elder
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: instructing the younger and spelling. The children and youth of
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood regard the very walls of the house as
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: breathing and learning, and prefer to come here for their
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: simple tutoring than to remain at home and perform the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: very same task. It is the hunger of the human
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: heart for what is beautiful and harmonious displayed in the
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: love of the soul starved for Hull House. Delicate colors
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: on wall and floor, good pictures and atmosphere of refinement
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: are more soul satisfying than the surroundings to which many
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: of the poor live. The clubs for children form a
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: distinctive feature of the educational system of Hull House. There
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: are boys clubs and girls clubs, each with its adult director.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: The greatest good fellowship prevails in every club, and the
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: ends of education and of social culture are found to
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: be best served by combining the two. Many of these
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: clubs bear somewhat fantastic names, derived from some romantic preference
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: of the members. Others are named for their purpose or
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: their leader. There are at present eight flourishing girls clubs.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: The Eleanor Smith Club admits girls between the ages of
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: twelve and fourteen. The purpose of the club is a
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: study of the history of music and musicians. Four clubs
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: are devoted to learning the art of sewing. The Sweet
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Violet Club is the club of beginners. Girls eight to
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: ten years of age may belong. The Little Woman's Club
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: has for its purpose a continuation of the work of
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: the Sweet Violet Club, admitting girls between the ages of
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: ten and twelve. The next step in the art is
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: to go into the Little Workers Club, to which girls
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: between the ages of twelve and fourteen are admitted. A
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Good Fellowship Club includes girls somewhat older and more experienced.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Other girls clubs are devoted to reading. The Happy Reading Circle,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: whose members range from ten to twelve years of age,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: as have late been reading Eugene Field's poems. The American
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Rose Club includes girls from twelve to fifteen years of age.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: The Clara Barton Club takes them on farther as they
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: become older. The boys clubs are graded in the same manner.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: The small boys from eight to ten years of age
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: are entertained by wisely chosen stories in the George Washington Club.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Boys from ten to twelve find their way into the
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Sigfried Club, as the name indicates. The children listen to
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: legends from the various mythologies. Their imaginations are quickened, and
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the story day comes to mean the gateway into an
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: enchanted land of beauty. The Columbus Club is made up
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: of boys ranging from ten, twelve to fourteen years of age.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: The smaller children boys and girls make up the Kindergarten Club.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: There is besides a Woodcarver's Club, a chorus of school
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: children under the direction of mister Tomlin's meets during the
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: winter at Hull House. Children between the ages of eight
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: and fourteen are admitted to the chorus. All these clubs
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: meet weekly. The Boys and Girls Club have each a
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: membership of ten. The Kindergarten Club often numbers fifty. There
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: are clubs for older youth as the Clinton Locke Club
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: and the Young Debating and Social Club, two organizations formed
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: for debating purposes. There is the Idah Right Club composed
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: of young girls who carry out pleasant literary programs. The
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Young Men's Clubs are as follows the Young Citizen's Club,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: the Eldorado Club composed of Jewish young men, and the
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Grant Club devoted to debates. The Drexel Club includes both
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: men and women in its membership. The programs are literary
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: of play now and then being presented. The Friendship Club
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: is one of like nature, music and tales of travel
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: being the object of the club. The Hull House Shakespeare
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Club is one of the best. At Hull House, the
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: plays of Shakespeare are studied, and when the best actors
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: give Shakespearean plays at Chicago theaters, the club attends in
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: a body. At present, only women are members of the club.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: The Social Science Club for Men and Women has been
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: in existence since the founding of Hull House. There has
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: frequently been a membership of one hundred at the weekly meetings,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: and address of forty five minutes is followed by discussion.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: All shades of political and religious opinion are brought together.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: The Women's Club of Hull House is another prosperous club.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: It numbers ninety of the most able women in the ward.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: The members of the club are doing good work along
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: sanitary and municipal lines. Much attention is also paid to
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: the question of moving the home, the better education and
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: training of children, et cetera. Hull House has from the
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: first been a flourishing university extension center. Scarcely a week
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: has passed since the founding of Hull House that several
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: courses of lectures have not been in progress. These lectures
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: occur on Sunday nights as well as week nights and
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: are largely attended. The Sunday night lectures have had audiences
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: of three hundred people, meeting in the large gymnasium. In
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: addition to the regular extension courses, a constant effort is
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: made to bring to Hull House men of note, not
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: only residents of Chicago, but lecturers from abroad. The well
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: equipped Gymnasium offers admirable facilities for work in physical culture.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: A small fee is charged each month for men and
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: women twenty five cents for girls and boys fifteen cents.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: During the winter, the classes are usually very large, but
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: as the warm weather comes on the numbers fall off.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Perhaps seventy five people are during the present term using
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the Gymnasium for physical training. A men's class and a
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: woman's class, as well as one for girls and another
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: for boys, are in full swing. The circulating picture gallery
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: is one of the best features of the Hull House
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: educational system. Miss Starr believes that the influence for good
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: of one good picture in the house is enormous. Accordingly,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: with infinite pains, she has collected a number of pictures,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: all of the very best, which are loaned after the
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: manner of a circulating library, for two weeks at a time.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: A typewritten account of the picture is pasted on the back,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the name and particular excellence of the artist, and a
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: brief characterization of the picture. The pictures go into many
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: poor homes where before has been only dinginess. Perhaps new
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: impulses are given by these works of art, which preaching
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: and mission work could not accomplish. There are at present
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: one hundred framed photographs, water colors, etc. In the gallery.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: A vast amount of relief work of one sort or
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: another goes on at Hull House, which can best be
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: classified by its humanitarian aspect. A Bureau of Relief has
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: been established, which is in constant communication with the Chicago
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Bureau of Charities. Information is given concerning the societies and
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: charitable institutions of the city, and every effort is made
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: to put the applicants in communication with the proper sources
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: for the relief. One resident has charge of the clothing supplies,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: another solicits employment for the unemployed. Another is visitor and
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: kindergarten teacher for sick children. Without endowment and without capital itself,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Hull House constantly acts between the various institutions of the
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: city and the people for whose benefit these institutions were erected.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: The hospitals, the county agencies, and state asylums are often
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: but rumors to the people who need them most. This
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: commission work, as I take it, is a value not
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: only to the recipient but to the institutions themselves. For
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: three years a day nursery has been in successful operation
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: at Hull House. Here, working mothers may leave their babies
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: while they are at their daily toil. As some careworn
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: creature climbs the stairs to the second floor and the
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: beautiful new children's building, and there leaves her baby to
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the care of kind motherly women. She probably echoes the
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: words of that poor mother who said, as she left
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: her little one here to the delights of the cresh
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: h h is meant to stand for Hull House, but
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: it also means half heaven. One airy, beautiful room, hung
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: with the madonnas of Raphael, as well as casts from
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Donatello and Della Rovilla, contains the little white beds where
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: the babies take their knaps. In An adjoining room is
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: a play room and lunch room for the children who
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: toddle about with one another in summer. The wide balconies
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: furnished splendid places of exploration, besides affording a never failing
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: delight at the presence of a saucy parrot in a
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: playful squirrel. Each mother pays five cents a day for
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: the privilege of leaving her baby here while she earns
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: her daily bread. The faces of the children of the
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: poor are inexpressibly pathetic and Hull House Nursery will preach
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: more than one powerful sermon to the inquiring soul who
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: wants to know what to do in the world. The
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: crowded city, with its countless forces for evil, is simply
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: a great battleground, and the strongest weapon for good is
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: the salvation of the children from the miserable or sinful
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: lives their parents have lead. Every day, rain or shine.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: At nine o'clock, the visiting nurse takes her supplies of
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: clean linen, towels, salves, and medicine from the capacious cupboard
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: in the hall of Hull House and goes out on
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: her errands of mercy, up and down the streets of
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: her district. She goes with her list of numbers. Here
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: there is a new baby coming to a destitute Italian family.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Built and unsanitary surroundings greet the newcomer. The mother has
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: no comforts whatever, the father is out of work. Several
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: other children already need food and clothing. The visiting nurse
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: supplies the bed of the mother with clean linen, washes
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: and dresses. The baby advises the father how best he
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: may make the house clean and comfortable, and goes on
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: her way, followed by the blessing of the mother. The
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: work of the Visiting Nurse is not a distinctive part
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: of Hull House relief work. She simply has her headquarters
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: here and receives telephone messages, keeps her stores of linen
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and medicines here, and is in general identified with the
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: humane work of the house. Salary and directions come from
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: the Visiting Nurses Association, which is supported by private subscription.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: The Jane Club, found it five years ago, is carrying
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: out most successfully the great principles of applied philanthropy. To me,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: it seems therry crown of humanitarian effort, affording as it
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: does a safe and comfortable home for working girls, with
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: all the instruments of intellectual and physical progress about them,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: besides being a shiny example of the success of co
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: operative efforts when correctly and scientifically made. The Jain Club,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: so named from Miss Adams, is a co operative boarding
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: club occupying five flats at two forty one Ewing Street,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: just around the corner from Hull House. The club is
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: limited to fifty. Each member pays three dollars a week board,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: all expenses being met thus by the thirty members now
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: forming the club. A housekeeper supervises the work of the club,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: and the thirty girls have as delightful a home life
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: as can be wished. The nucleus of the Jain Club
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: was a group of trades union girls, two book binders,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: two shoemakers, and one shirt maker. Each member is a
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: wage earner. Some members are teachers, some factory employees, others
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: office clerks. This diversity of occupation and interest among the
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: members has always been valuable to the life and tone
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: of the club. There are classes and clubs within the membership,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: and nearly all the members are regular attendants at the
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Hull House lectures the club as an economical experiment and
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: a most successful one, has attracted wide attention in London.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Miss Adams remarks that on two occasions in London she
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: found herself received not because she was identified with Hull House,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: but because she was associated with the Jaine Club. Great
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: interest was displayed as to the probable reasons why Hull
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: House's Jane Club had succeeded so gloriously when similar attempts
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: had repeatedly failed in London. Miss Adams is especially anxious
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: that a new building be provided for the Jane Club.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: The size of the club makes more convenient quarters. In
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: absolute necessity, fifteen or eighteen thousand dollars would build a
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: commodious house for thirty girls upon a piece of land
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: already donated to Hull House. The Failings Club, a cooperative
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: boarding club for young men at two fifty three Polk Street,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: is conducted on the same plan as is the Jain Club.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: The number, however, is much smaller, twelve being the greatest
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: number who have board it here. The coffee house was
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: opened in eighteen ninety three. It was built and fitted
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: up by mister Colvin, a generous friend of Hull House.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: The coffee House is intensely interesting from an esthetic point
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: of view alone. It is like an old English inn,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: with its dark rafters, its diamond shaped pains, its rows
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: of old blue mugs and pitchers. A wonderfully attractive place
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: it is in every way. Its influence is singularly refining.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: There are well cooked food, all the daily papers, quiet attendants.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I do not know that it is serving its purpose
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: as an offset to the saloon. Frequenters of saloon certainly
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: do not eat here with any regularity. When the coffee
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: house was open, an Irish laborer coolly inspected it and remarked,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: you can have the coffee Gang here part of the time,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: and you can have the shovel Gang here a part
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: of the time. But you can't have the office Gang
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: and the shovel Gang here both at the same time.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: And so it has proved the office gang loves the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: coffee house as a pleasant place of cheer. The shovel
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Gang send their children to buy well cooked food, but
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: do not come themselves. In time, they may, but not now.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Back of the coffee House is a New England kitchen
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: with all model and modern appliances for cooking, including a
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: number of the Latin ovens. Coffee, soup and stews are
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: delivered every day at noon to the neighboring factories. A
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: pint of soup or coffee with two hot rolls can
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: be bought for five cents. This extension of the coffee
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: House to the factories has become very popular with the
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: employees of the factories. The Penny Providence Savings Bank of
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: New York has a station at Hull House. This is
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: one of the popular features of Hull House. The depositors
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: receive cards upon which stamps are paced to the amount
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: of their deposit. These stamps are redeemable in money at
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: the option of the depositors. From January first, eighteen ninety
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: six to April first, eighteen ninety seven, four thousand cards
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: have been issued. It is a most interesting study from
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: life to sit from seven to eight o'clock each evening
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: banky hours and watch the varied specimens of humanity, defiantly
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: or cautiously coming in to deposit their mites. A woman
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: with the savings of a week of grinding toil, striving
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: to keep from a brutal husband. What has made the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: grave so much nearer? A thrifty bohemian or german with
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: his day's earnings tied in the corner of a red handkerchief.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: A newsboy, pride written on every sharpened feature, at his
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: own prosperity. Chapters in the brute struggle going on in
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: our great cities, where too often the end of the
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: story is exhaustion and death. Little by little, the residents
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: of Hull House have extended their influence into municipal affairs.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Hull House is a most convenient spot in which to
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: hold meetings, and the residents are most clear headed agitators,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: prominent people of Chicago. A vere that the whole city
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: of Chicago feels the potent touch of the group of
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: citizens residing at Hull House upon matters relating to civic life.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Within a few blocks of Hull House is located the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Carter H. Harrison Free Public Bath, the only one of
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: its kind in the city. Miss Adams was influential in
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: determining the location of the bath and having the whole
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: amount of the appropriation twelve thousand dollars put into the building.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Within three blocks of Hull House at twenty one Blue
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Island Avenue is a free reading room a branch of
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: the public library. In order to get the reading room started,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: the lecture hall of Butler Gallery was used for a
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: public library. When the venue has proved a distinct success,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: the library authorities rented their own reading room. The erection
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: of the Sholto Street School building was due to the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: efforts of missus Kelly, a prominent resident of Hull House,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: who called attention to the alarming fact that the school's
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: census showed six thousand, nine hundred and seventy six school
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  Speaker 1: children in the nineteenth ward, and that they were provided
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  Speaker 1: with only two thousand, nine hundred and fifty seven public
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  Speaker 1: school sittings. The nineteenth Ward has always been branded as
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  Speaker 1: one of the worst from a sanitary point of view
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  Speaker 1: in the city. One of the greatest services hull houses
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: rendered the city is departed. Has played in securing more
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: efficient garbage inspection. When the city contracts for removing garbage
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: expired two years ago, Miss Adams herself put in a
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: bid for the work, but it was thrown out on
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  Speaker 1: the technicality. She then applied for the position of garbage
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: inspector and was appointed by Mayor Swift. She promptly appointed
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Miss Amanda Johnson, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 1: her deputy, and the war was waged on uncleanliness. Since
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  Speaker 1: the passage of the Civil Service Law, Miss Johnson has
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: taken the examinations prescribed by the Commission and now holds
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  Speaker 1: in her own name the position left vacant by Miss Adams.
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  Speaker 1: Old residents of the ward say that never before have
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: the alleys been kept in so good condition. In my
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: tour with Miss Johnson through the alleys of the nineteenth Ward,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: I was impressed by the courtesy everywhere shown by the inhabitants.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: To the firm faced, pleasant voiced woman who strode down
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: one street after another, directing, commending, reproving where simple notification
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  Speaker 1: does not do. She prosecutes, but her prosecutions are rare. Indeed,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: her executive power is simply wonderful. She knows exactly where
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: every man employed by the contractor for the removal of
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: garbage should be at seven o'clock every morning, and she
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: generally finds him at his post. Specially neat did I
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: find the alleys in the Greek colonies? Whose filth was
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: I am told simply impassable? A few years ago, in
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety two, Missus Florence Kelly, a resident of Hull House,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: was appointed Special Agent of the Illinois Bureau of Labour
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Statistics for the purpose of investigating the condition of the
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: home finishers under the sweating system. The results of her
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: work were embodied in the report of the Bureau for
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: that year. The information thus gathered served as a basis
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: of agitation for the passage of the sweatshop Law. In
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety three, Missus Kelly was appointed by the United
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: States Department of Labour to act as expert in charge
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  Speaker 1: of the Chicago Branch of the Investigation of the Slums
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: of Great Cities. The results of the investigations were published
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: in the Special Report of the Department. The information gathered
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: served as the basis of the maps in Hull House
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Maps and Papers. In eighteen ninety three, missus Kelly was
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  Speaker 1: appointed Chief Inspector of the Factories of Illinois, being the
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  Speaker 1: first woman appointed to that office. As a member of
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: the Bar of Illinois, she now prosecutes violators of the
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Factory Law. During eighteen ninety five, she obtained the conviction
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: of two hundred seventy eight employers upon the charge of
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: employing four hundred eighty eight children in violation of the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: child labor provisions of the Factory Law. Whose object it
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: is to obtain more wholesome conditions of work in the
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: sweatshop and to regulate the employment. At this writing, a
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: bill is before the State Legislature designed to regulate the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: employment of children in the State of Illinois and to
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: provide for the enforcement thereof. If passed, this bill will
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  Speaker 1: materially relieve the oppression of the child laborer who is
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: exploited by the grasping employer. A resident of Hull House,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Miss Julia C. Lathrop has been reappointed as member of
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  Speaker 1: the State Board of Charities. She has worked for four
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  Speaker 1: years to increase the comfort and efficiency of poor houses
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: throughout the state, to secure women physicians in the hospitals
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: for the insane, and many other needed changes and of
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: chapter three, Chapter four of the Social Settlement Movement in
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond. This LibriVox recording as in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain Chapter four Northwestern University Settlement, the settlement
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: founded by the faculty, alumni, and student body of Northwestern
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: University at Evanston, Illinois, has entered upon its sixth year
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  Speaker 1: of progress. It was founded by the Northwestern University Settlement Association,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: which organized in eighteen ninety one has since been incorporated
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  Speaker 1: under the laws of the State of Illinois. The object
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  Speaker 1: of the Association is the elevation of neglected parts of
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Chicago by the maintenance in their midst of settlement. Modeled
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: after those already in operation in London, New York, Boston
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  Speaker 1: and other cities, the aim and motives are distinctly Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Certain fundamental details of organization were from the first in
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: the minds of the prime movers of the project. A
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: settlement house was to be established where college graduates and
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: in some cases others with wide social experience and kindly
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: tact were to reside. The residents were to seek to
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: influence the surrounding community as members of it. A resident
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: secretary was to be employed by the association. The other
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: residents were to pay their board. The residents were to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: study the special needs of the neighborhood, to investigate abuses
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: and seek redress for these abuses through the proper authorities.
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  Speaker 1: To cooperate with all elevating social agencies at work in
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. To seek personal acquaintance and association with their neighbours.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: And to apply all practicable incentives to cleanliness, good manners,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: hygiene in the home, economy, and other right habits. The
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: settlement was not in any way to be a charitable institution,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: but was rather to supplement the scanty opportunities of the
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: people for mental, social and moral improvement. This was, in
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: brief the plan proposed by the Settlement Association. The work
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: was to be allowed to open out as fully as
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: it might in the future. A flat was rented at
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  Speaker 1: one forty three West Division Street and put in charge
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: of mister Charles Zuplin, resident Secretary. The other residents were
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: mister and Missus Clark, Tisdale. A store and basement at
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: two twenty five West Division Street were also rented and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: given the name of Evanston Hall. Here were put in
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: operation the reading room and club room. A few clubs
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: were started, one for men under the name of the
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Social Science Club, one for boys, another for working girls,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: another for young men. The expense of care on the
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: work of the settlement for the first year was about
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars. It was difficult to secure the required amount,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: and the salary of the resident secretary was in arrears
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: at the close of the year. Then some other difficulties,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: the withdrawal of the secretary from the work and the
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: necessity of removal from West Division Street to Rice Street.
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  Speaker 1: The second year has passed without permanent arrangements as to
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: head worker or residence, and it was not until October
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  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety five that the present quarters of the settlement
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: were rented. The Settlement House, two fifty two West Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Avenue is a handsome red brick building consisting of three
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: commodious flats. It is situated in the sixteenth Ward, one
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: of the river wards of Chicago. It is a well
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: known fact that the river wards are the worst in
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: the city. The sixteenth Ward contains a population of seventy
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: thousand people who were densely domiciled in an area of
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: about a square mile. There are about one hundred sixteen
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: people to each acre of its area. These are chiefly
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: working people, and the greatest destitution often prevails among them.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I have been through front, rear and alley tenements where
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: it seemed almost impossible to draw a full breath with
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: any degree of comfort, so feted was the air. In
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: underground cellars. People may be found pale and haggard. They
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: are only light coming through a grating on the level
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  Speaker 1: of the street. Not a single part gladdens the eye
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: with its freshness. In the whole ward, the alleys and
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: streets are in the worst possible condition. As yet, no
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: public library has been established here to furnish a center
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: of intelligent recreation. But two hundred five saloons flourish, and
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: two low concert and dance halls extend a welcome to
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: poor souls who know no better diversion. A stroll through
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  Speaker 1: the sixteenth Ward would furnish one with almost as good
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: data for the study of the customs, manners, and dress
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: of its foreign population as a tow or three through
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: certain countries of the Old World. In the northern part
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: of the ward are thirty thousand Poles. The rest of
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: the ward is divided among twelve thousand Germans, six thousand Scandinavians,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: a thousand Irish, about as many Italians, and a few
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: scattering hundreds of other nationalities. Careful investigation has shown a
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: terrible record of crime and poverty in the sixteenth Ward.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: The overcrowding of tenements, the terrible unsanitary conditions of life
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: in many houses forces the general death rate up until
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: it is five times greater, and its death rate of
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: children seven times greater than that of the twenty fourth Ward.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: In the heart of such conditions as these, the Northwestern
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: University's Settlement began its work. The outlook was not very encouraging.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: The children especially, seemed totally to pray. The captain of
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: the West Chicago Avenue Police Station suggested to the residents
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: of the settlement that they might start a reformatory, which
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: you could start with twenty thousand boys in young men.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: The general direction of the work and the financial maintenance
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: of the settlement are in charge of a council of
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: fifteen members. The fund supporting the settlement is made up
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: of fees of members of the association and voluntary subscriptions.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: At present, there are a head worker in five residents,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: who are assisted by many who come to the settlement
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: to teach classes or to entertain clubs. The head worker
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: receives a salary. The other residents pay their board. The
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: Settlement House has become a social center for the entire neighborhood.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: From five to seven hundred people come to the settlement
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: every week. The activities of the settlement, as at Hull House,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: operate along four lines social, educational, philanthropic, and civic. The
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: clubs are carried on with a view to their socializing influence,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: rather than to any great intellectual good which may accrue. Indeed,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: all settlement workers, though they may concerning the best methods
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: to be employed in the attainment of ultimate ends, agree
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: that the great work of a settlement is socialization. The
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: work done by Northwestern University Settlement in the work of
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: socialization has been eminently successful. A beautiful spirit of fellowship
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: permeates the settlement House. The children of the neighborhood gaze
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: lovingly toward the windows as they pass. The members of
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: the various clubs regard the settlement as a mecca of enjoyment.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Religious toleration has come to be one of the fruits
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: of friendly intercourse in interchange of opinion. The kindly ministrations
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: of the residents are producing changes in many homes of
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: the community. Missus Sly, the head resident, preaches cleanliness constantly
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: to the wives and mothers about her. The polls are
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: especially difficult to deal with in matters pertaining to the home,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: but these Missus Sly reaches through the happy medium of
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: proffered friendship be kindly advice. Through the children who are
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: gathered into the kindergarten and children's clubs, the parents are
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: frequently reached. Probably a thousand people come to the house
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: weekly for various purposes, but to all of them the
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: settlement is in every sense of the word, a social center.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: The clubs have in every way been successful from the outset.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: The German Club, which now numbers about forty members, has
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: met every Friday evening since the settlement started. It is
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: made up of German women of the neighborhood, who, in
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: this meeting preserve the spirit of their nationality while freely
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: sympathizing with the aims of the Settlement. Their purpose is
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: to promote a spirit of sociability among the families of
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood, and for improvement of the members in such
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: blends of reading and study as they may determine upon.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: At present, the members meet and sing the dear old
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: songs of the Fatherland, listen to recitations in German and
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: to lecturers who address them in German, and they enjoy
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: real social fellowship over coffee and cake. Not only does
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: the club defray its own expenses, but it annually pays
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: two membership fees of five dollars each into the Settlement Association.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: One of the most enjoyable afternoons I spent at the
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: Settlement was as guest of the Settlement Women's Club. This
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: club was organized in eighteen ninety three and is prosperous
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: in growing. Three of its weekly meetings during the month
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: are devoted to literary programs, in the fourth to sociability.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: The personnel of the club was extremely interesting to me.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: A Roman Catholic an irishwoman sat amicably side by side
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: with a German Jewess and discussed with her the differences
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: between the Orthodox and Reformed jew The spirit of tolerant
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: interest was refreshing representatives of two of the most conservative
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: churches here and Friendly Spirit exchanged views, each with the
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: aim of mutual enlightenment as to what the other. It
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: was not the result of the coffee, which it cannot
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: be denied, was most modifying in its effects, but the
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: fruit of months of kindly intercourse, which demonstrated to every
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: member of the club that religious differences mattered little in
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: this atmosphere of friendly appreciation. The club has now about
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: forty members. As a side attraction, it is carried on
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: most successfully a cooking class. The club is frequently addressed
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: by advanced students of Northwestern University Women's Medical School. There
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: can be no doubt that the work of the club
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: has resulted in better homemaking, better food, better life in
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: every way. Twenty enthusiastic young working women constitute the membership
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: of the Home Culture Club. They meet weekly, have readings,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: music in a general good time. For a year they
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: have been studying the art of cooking. The proceeds of
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: a musicale given under the auspices of the club, were
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: devoted to the purchase of a fine gas range, which
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: was presented to the settlement house to be used for
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: experimental cooking. A men's club, meeting every Tuesday evening and
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, has been carried on from the beginning of
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: the settlement work the membership averaging forty. The object of
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: the club is discussion of current topics. The club has
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: suspended operations until fall. On Friday evenings, the boys clubs meet.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: The membership of the clubs has increased so rapidly that
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: the basement of the settlement house does not afford room,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: so the building adjoining the house on the east has
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: been rented for the purpose. A club of ten boys
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: is learning basket weaving, another numbering five members, the printer's trade,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: another numbering six boys, ornamental brass work, a fourth of
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: ten leather chain work, while enthusiastic work in carpentry is
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: being carried on by fifteen boys. Younger children who come
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: to the settlement are admitted into clubs like the Star Club,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: the Eugene Field Club, each numbering fifty members, the Evanston Club,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: the Jolly Crew, the Hero and Round Table Clubs, which
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: average twenty members each. Books pictures, music and games, furnish
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: elevating recreation for the children who find in the club
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: rooms a place of safe pleasures. The educational work of
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: the settlement is done through the medium of lectures in classes.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: Two large art classes have been doing enthusiastic work. Classes
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: in arithmetic, literature, elocution, French, and penmanship are also very prosperous.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: The settlement has also inaugurated a circulating library numbering eight
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty volumes. The library is constantly increasing in
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: size and in popularity. Books can be obtained two afternoons
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: of each week. Over one hundred fifty books are drawn weekly.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: A reading room is open a part of each afternoon.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: Is some benevolent person would provide permanent quarters for a
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: reading room and stock it with the best periodicals of
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: the time, the eye of such a gift would be priceless.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: One of the most attractive features of settlement work and
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: educational lines has been the work in music. Several settlements
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: have co operated in the music extension movement. It is
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: superintendent by an executive committee consisting of two representatives from
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: each settlement and from the Amateur Musical Club. The children's
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: chorus numbers one hundred forty four members and the adult
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: class thirty. Both classes meet weekly to reform this old world.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: We must begin with the children. So each settlement has
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: found that it is not only wise but necessary to
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: have a kindergarten taught by a superior kindergartener. Whatever else
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: may be lacking in the make up of the settlement.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: Miss Burdock, who is exceptionally fine in her work, presides
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: over this kindergarten, which now has forty members. A School
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: of Domestic Science flourishes at Northwestern University Settlement. It includes
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: sections in sewing, dressmaking, kitchen gardening, cooking, and sanitary science.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: The sewing classes in roll one hundred sixteen members, the
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: kitchen garden twenty four and the dressmaking fifteen. Four different
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: clubs have taken the instruction in cooking. The philanthropic work
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: of Northwestern University Settlement is not as yet so fully
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: developed as the resident's desire, but a good beginning has
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: been made. The settlement co operates with a Bureau of Charities,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: whose superintendent, Mister Robert Kilbourne, is a resident of the Settlement.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: During the past winter, residents of the Settlement have assisted
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: materially in bringing to the notice of the superintendent cases
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: of suffering. Physicians from Northwestern University Medical School come at
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: any call from the settlement to attend the sick of
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: the community. The residents faithfully visit the sick and are
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: often very successful in finding work for the unemployed. Miss
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: Jesse Bartlett, recently a resident of Denison House, Boston now
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: this settlement, is a friendly visitor in the neighborhood and
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: is doing excellent work, especially among the boys whose home
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: she visits, with a view to a better understanding of
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: their home life in influences. For a year, a stamp
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: bank similar to that carried on at Hull House has
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: been in successful operation. As in previous summers, parties of
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: children and young people will be taken to the parks
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: in the country on pleasure trips. A strong effort is
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: being made to induce such citizens of Chicago as have
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: summer cottages or farms, to invite children from the settlement
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: community to spend at least two weeks out in the
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: fresh air, that they may come to know what flowers
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: in green grass and growing trees are. In the sixteenth ward,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: one hardly knows what a grass plot or a green
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  Speaker 1: tree is like. The change for good wrought in a
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  Speaker 1: child's life by such an outing cannot be estimated. The
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  Speaker 1: residence of Northwestern University. Settlement cannot as yet point to
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  Speaker 1: any great work accomplished along civic lines, but a constant
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: effort is being made to infuse into citizens of the
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  Speaker 1: war to desire for a higher civic life, for better
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the state and municipal government, and to impress
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: them with a feeling of responsibility for the condition of
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: the ward. Two years ago the sixteenth Ward Civic Federation
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: ceased to exist. In the prospect of obtaining clean streets,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: good lighting, paving, and the inspection of garbage seems hopeless. Indeed,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: it is true that during the recent municipal campaign, considerable
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: influence for good was brought to bear by the residents
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: of the settlement. During the present summer, large basis in
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: the ward will be devoted to the raising of potatoes,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: under the direction of the District Superintendent of the Bureau
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: of Charities. The work will be done by those out
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: of work in the ward. If the effort secedes, as
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: well as a similar one did in Detroit, the experiment
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: may become a permanent good in them is part of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: The needs of this district are many. In pressing. Unsightly
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  Speaker 1: tenement should be torn down and parks and playgrounds substituted.
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  Speaker 1: More school buildings are needed to keep out of the
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: streets those who now attend only half a day from
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: lack of school room. A reading room fully equipped open
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  Speaker 1: day and evening would be a great force for good
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Coffeehouses scattered through the ward would outrival
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: the saloons and would soon be self supporting. In all
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: these enterprises, Northwestern University Settlement would willingly cooperate. Indeed, that
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  Speaker 1: is its great hope that it may share in the
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  Speaker 1: work of socializing and elevating the seventy thousand people of
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: the ward in which it is situated. End of chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five of the Social Settlement Movement in Chicago by
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: Josephine Hunt Raymond. This libraviot recording as in the public
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: domain Chapter five, Clyborne Avenue Settlement. The history of the
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: Clyborne Avenue Settlement is an illustration of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: in these days, when social consciousness is quickening, interest in humanity,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: which begins under phase as strictly religious, often comes to
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: assume more and more The humanitarian aspect born into Clyburne
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: Avenue life as a church mission. The work has gradually expanded,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: until now all branches of effort are centralized under one name,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: in one management. In the days when Professor David Swing
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: was pastor of Central Church, his congregation, at his earnest wish,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: started a little mission at two forty five Clyburne Avenue
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: in the region known as Little Hell. The mission grew
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: to such proportions that it soon assumed all the aspects
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: of a church, and it was evident that a new
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: church edifice was needed. Through the generosity of the daughters
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: of the Late Missus S. P. Williams of Chicago, a
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: handsome church was built at the corner of Vetterer and
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: Penn Streets, about half a mile south of the old location.
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  Speaker 1: The church was called the Olivet Memorial Church. Olivet Memorial
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  Speaker 1: Church was dedicated in October eighteen ninety three. From this
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  Speaker 1: time the rooms of the old mission were devoted to
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: institutional work carried on under the auspices of Olivet Memorial Church.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: To be sure, before this time there had been an
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: effort made to instruct the members of the community in
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: various ways through a few clubs and classes. But under
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: the new organization the work opened out splendidly. A number
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: of workers made their home in three flats at two
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: seventy nine Clibourne Avenue in the two points of attack
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: on the forces of ignorance and vice constituted the Olivet Mission,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: Rever Mister Hormel being head worker. The work of Olivet
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: Mission was until the present year supported by the Home
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  Speaker 1: Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church. From July eighteen ninety three,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: Reverend mister Galway became co pastor. In eighteen ninety four,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: at the resignation of mister Hormel, Mister Galway assumed sole
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  Speaker 1: charge of the work. In February eighteen ninety seven, the
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Central Church of which Reverend Doctor hillis is now pastor,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: offered to assume the entire expense of the work, the
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  Speaker 1: name to be changed to the Clyborne Avenue Settlement. Mister
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: Galway at once resigned the pastorate of Olivet Church and
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: assumed the management of the social settlement. The field of
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: work of the Clyborne Avenue Settlement is a most important one.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: Out of every hundred of the population, ninety five are German.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: Some of the most difficult social problems have arisen for
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: solution low dance halls abound. Saloons are numerous, gambling dens
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: are everywhere. The aim of the settlement is to lead
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: the members of the community, step by step from their
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: low plane of living to a desire for more comfortable homes,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: for higher recreations, for education for the children. All this
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: can be accomplished only by placing at the disposal of
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood pleasant rooms for gathering of the proper kind,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: instruction on necessary topics, and a general atmosphere of cordiality
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: in good fellowship. The resident workers now number ten. They
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: occupy four flats at two seventy nine Clybourne Avenue. They include,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: besides the head resident, mister Galway, the resident physician, doctor B. M.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: Lannell and his family, and a visiting nurse. These flats
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: are all on the second floor of a large building
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: on the corner of North Halsted Street and Clybourne Avenue.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: A large basement of the building is used as electure hall,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: and a store underneath the flats is used as a
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  Speaker 1: cresh At two forty five Clybourne Avenue, large meetings are held.
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  Speaker 1: This has for some time been known as as the
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Social Institute and includes the various branches of educational work.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: The Clyborne Avenue Settlement has not as yet extended its
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: activities into many clearly defined lines. For the present, it
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: is doing good educational work in its kindergarten, its clubs
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: and its classes. The kindergarten is one of the largest
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: in the city. When opening for work October first, eighteen
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: ninety three, a crowd of over two hundred sought for
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: a mission lack of kindergarten assistants admitting more than seventy five.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: There is no doubt that the kindergarten has been the
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  Speaker 1: most valuable agency of Cliborne Avenue Settlement. The principles of
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: child study are so fundamental that, once inculcated into a
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: child its life has permanently helped toward the higher life.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: A personal investigation into the homes of the children will
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: show that the settlement has reached many fathers and mothers
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: through the medium of the kindergarten. The basement of the residence,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: building two seventy nine Clyborne Avenue is utilized for the kindergarten.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: It is an airy, well lighted apartment of immense proportions.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: Heat it with steam, light it with gas and fit
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: it with a tessellated marble floor. Sixty five of the
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: neighborhood children meet here every morning from nine to twelve o'clock.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: The superintendent of the kindergarten, Miss Stone, is assisted by
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: a half dozen other kindergarteners. The methods of the celebrated
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: Pestalozzi frible Hans of Berlin are employed here so far
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: as possible, clay modeling, the fashioning of household objects from twigs,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: where as in the child's mind the love of doing
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: basket weaving and wood carving too reveal wonderful things to
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: these little ones. The kindergarten is recruited from the day nursery,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: one of the best in Chicago. It is three large
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: rooms below the resident's flat. The crush is under the
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: management of Miss Wagner, an ideal woman in her profession.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: The three rooms are fitted up with tiny white beds.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: There is a dining room where food is prepared, and
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: a reception room for the mothers of the children. Ten
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: cents a day is charged for the care of a child,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: and at least one hundred are provided for in the
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: course of a week. Each child brought to the nurseries
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: given individual care and attention. If the child is uncleaned,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: its soil clothing is removed. It is given a bath
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: and then clad in a clean, bright gingham dress. After
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: the noonday lunch, the children are put to sleep in
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: little white cots. The working mothers call for their children
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: between six and seven o'clock at night. In June eighteen
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: ninety four, a company of the Boy's Brigade was organized
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: with twenty four members every Monday evening under the leadership
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: of skilled instructors. The boys are drilled in United States
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: military tactics. It is planned to have this movement worked
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: out along the broadest and most practical lines which shall
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: be calculated to aid in the developing of a true manly,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: brotherly spirit and around it character. The Girl's Brigade has
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: also been formed, Its aims the same as those the
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: Boys Brigade adapted to girls. In all other respects, the
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: work of the Clyborne Avenue Settlement is similar to that
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: of the other settlements. Possibly more stress is laid on
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: the manual training, on the cooking, fancy work and dress
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: making for the girls, and on the basket weaving, wood
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: carving and sloyd for the boys. In communities where the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: population is so generally foreign. The fact that the children
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: are learning to do something is a most significant one
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: to working people. The men have their club for the
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: discussion of social, civic and economic questions. The mothers made
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: every second Friday and are instructed in regard to child
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: nature and child nurture by Missus Robbins of the Chicago
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: Kindergarten College. Another club, the Women's Club of the Settlement,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: is flourishing, mating every second week for literary programs in
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: social intercourse. It was found at the outset of the
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: settlement work that music was one of the attractions to
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: which the large German element of the community surrendered. Accordingly,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: a large singing class of children was organized and trained
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: by mister Tomlins. This has proved a most successful effort.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: A number of Chicago's best musicians, vocal and instrumental, frequently
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: give their services at concerts for the Settlement. The work
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: of Cliburne Avenue Settlement is surely telling on the community
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: in which it has unfurled its banner of the higher life.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: The children are gaining certain ideals in the germ from
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: contact with educated men and women who come to the settlement.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: The men and women who allow themselves to be drawn
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: into their kindly influence, will sooner or later learn to
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: think about life in a way entirely strange to them. Heretofore,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: the very fact that there are recreations of a higher
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: type than those to which they have been accustomed is
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: a revelation to them. But here, as in all other settlements,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: the children are the key to the situation, and parents
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: will not often deny their children what they see is
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: lifting them beyond the place they have held in life.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: The work of the social settlement must, of necessity be
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: of slow growth, built as it is upon the slowly
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: growing characters of the younger generation. End of chapter five,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: Chapter six of the Social Settlement Movement in Chicago by
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: Josephine Hunt Raymond. This sleep of axual courting, as in
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: the public domain Chapter six, Maxwell Street Settlement, the ghetto
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: of the city of Chicago, may be found in parts
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: of the nineteenth seventh and eighth wards. A walk through
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: an area of about a square mile between Polk Street
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: on the north, Blue Island Avenue on the west, Fifteenth
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Street on the south, and Stuart Avenue on the east
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: reveals all the characteristic features of life and co customs
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: among the poor, say perhaps that Hebrew signs are everywhere.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: The dry goods stores display the cheapest wares products of
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: the sweater's trade. The dwelling houses, either wooden shanties, brick
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: tenements or rear tenements, are frightfully unsanitary and in almost
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: every instance overcrowded. The religious conservatism of the Jews has
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: made them difficult to reach, except through the philanthropic of
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: their own race. Relief work has been successfully carried on
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: by the United Hebrew Charities, through whom employment has been
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: provided and suffering during hard winters has been mitigated. The
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: Jewish Training School gives industrial training to nine hundred students, who,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: in the light of modern pedagogic methods, will be too
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: many degrees in advance of the present generation as regards
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: liberality of religious thought and a higher standard of living.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: Through the medium of the social settlement, the Jewish quarter
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: referred to is being reached and benefited. Probably no more
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: effective work is being done in an educational way than
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: in the Maxwell Street settlement, for the reason that the
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: social and educational are skillfully blended, and while receiving instruction,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: the people of the community are unconsciously being lifted to
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: an appreciation of in a desire for a higher plane
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: of living. The Maxwell Street Settlement came into being when,
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: at the suggestion of a rabbi, two young Jews collegemen
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: rented the house on Maxwell Street in the heart of
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: the ghetto and began their work of education. The people
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: responded readily to the kindliness and sympathy of the residents
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: and eagerly joined the classes form for their benefit. The
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: population immediately surrounding the settlement is almost exclusively composed of
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: Russian Jews employed during the day as peddlars, tailors, cigar makers,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: or clerks in department stores. In Chicago, there is only
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: one night school in the ward. The overcrowded condition of
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: the classes at the school, and the general desire of
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: the working men and women of the community to acquire
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: some knowledge of the elementary English branches led to the
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: evening classes at the settlement. The residents, with a few
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: other Jewish assistants, gave instruction in English, reading, spelling, and writing.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: As German was very generally spoken, a class in German
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: was started and short German sentences were translated into English
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: and English sentences into German. The number of each class
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: was restricted to twenty, a limitation which resulted in close
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: social relations between teachers and students. Three boys and three
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: girls clubs were organized, with a total membership of eighty five,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: the object being a knowledge of good juvenile literature. Fifty
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: young men who were too old for admission to the
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: boys clubs banded together and formed the United American Educational Club,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: probably the most notable of the many or organizations of
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: the settlement. The members of the United American Educational Club
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: or all members of the Cigar Makers Union, and are
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: among the most intelligent and progressive Jews in the community.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: After fitting up club rooms nearby, the members of the
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: club organize three classes, each meeting three times a week
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: under the leadership of the residents of the settlement. Some
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: of the members are learning to read, some to write,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: some to speak English. One class reads as a textbook
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: in English newspaper. Frequently classes spell down. Every effort is
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: made to prevent the work from assuming an institutional form.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: It is natural that minds, wearied by the harsh task
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: which the days struggle imposes upon them, should be ill
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: fitted to receive even the most elementary education. If offered
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: in a heavy form A popular line of study at
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: the Maxwell Street Settlement is that of literature. One class
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: which had read Irving's Sketch bo attended in a body
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: Van Winkle as played by Joseph Jefferson. Shakespeare's plays have
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: been made vivid in the same manner. The leaders of
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: the classes have, in such cases accompanied their pupils to
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: the theatre, and a meeting subsequent to the theatre evening
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: guided them in intelligent and critical interpretation. Boys and girls
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: who aspired business positions are admitted to classes in civil government,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: in bookkeeping and arithmetic. Talks on commercial practices are given
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: in some of the fundamental laws of commerce explained. A
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: good deal of sound teaching on right business relations accompanying
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: the technical training. The question what shall the girls read
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: is being answered by the work of the Girl's Home
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: Culture Club. About twenty working girls from seventeen to twenty
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: two years old are being directed in the reading by
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: an able teacher who gives informal talks on the choice
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: of books and aids in the interpretation of them best
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: English novels. Not viciousness but ignorance is the explanation of
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: so much time being wasted on pernicious literature. A taste
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: for good literature. Once formed, there is little danger of
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: relapsing into trifling enjoyments. The Home Culture Club does a
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: double work. Meetings are held at the homes of the members,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: who take great delight in making their humble living rooms
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: bright for the occasion. Home making comes to be a
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: part of the educative processes of the club, with its
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: resultance of neatness, friendliness, and hospitality. As in the other settlements,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: there are a reading room in a small circulating library.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: The residents do not rest with this. They carefully explain
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: the technicalities of the substation of the city library, situated
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: a few blocks from the settlement. This is much more
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: important than appears on the surface. Many working people have
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: never seen the inside of a library, and perhaps never will,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: simply because they do not know the ins and outs
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: of procuring books, which they, in their simplicity, imagine to
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: be much more complicated than they, in reality are. There
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: is only one instance where the Maxwell Street Settlement teaches
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: the fundamentals of life and social customs. Too many things
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: are taken for granted with the uneducated. Intellectual and moral
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: blindness are not confined to Asia and Africa. Labor employed,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: and a few of the thoroughfares of Chicago would be
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: quite as productive as that lavished on the other side
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: of the world in missionary enterprises. End of chapter six,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of the Social Settlement Movement in Chicago by
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: Josephine Hunt Raymond. This LibriVox re courting is in the
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: public domain. Chapter seven The University of Chicago Settlement the
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: plan for a university settlement to be affiliated with the
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: University of Chicago and to dates the opening of the
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: university itself, it having been a part of the original
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: purpose of the institution. In January eighteen ninety four, the
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: settlement began its work in that part of Chicago known
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: as the Stockyards District, the settlement rooms being at four
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: six three eight Ashland Avenue. This district was chosen by
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: reason of its pressing needs for humane work. Hence, the
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: work with which the Settlement has become mostly closely identified
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: is that of the organized charities of the City of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: This does not necessarily imply that other lines of work
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: have not been fully and successfully carried out. The day nursery,
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  Speaker 1: the kindergarten, the clubs and classes, the picture gallery, the
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: circulating library, and the savings bank are all in a
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  Speaker 1: most prosperous condition. But here, perhaps more than in any
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: other social settlement, the work of investigation and matters pertaining
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: to the unemployed and the needy, has been most thorough.
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  Speaker 1: The community in which the University of Chicago's settlement is
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  Speaker 1: located is one of the most interesting economically and sociologically
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  Speaker 1: considered in the City of Chicago. The territory lies between
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  Speaker 1: thirty ninth and fifty fifth Streets. It is primarily an
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  Speaker 1: industrial community built up around one great industry. The stockyards,
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  Speaker 1: together with the packing houses, virtually furnish all the employment
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: in the community, the stores, saloons, et cetera, being indirectly
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: dependent upon the yards for support. Perhaps seventy five thousand
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  Speaker 1: people draw their means of livelihood from the stockyoids. The
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: employment is, however, very irregular. When a heavy shipment of
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: cattle is received and extra force of men is put
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  Speaker 1: on to dispose of the animals, that the burden of
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: their maintenance may not rest on the company any longer
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  Speaker 1: than is necessary. Hope of obtaining this extra work attracts
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  Speaker 1: more men to the stockyoid's district than can be supplied
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  Speaker 1: with steady work. And those best acquaint it with the
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  Speaker 1: situation declare that all the workmen concerned, as well as
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: the community, would be better off were twenty five percent
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  Speaker 1: of the laboring force to be discharged and forced to
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  Speaker 1: leave the district. In recent years, the introduction of improved
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: machinery has affected the employment of labor as well as
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: the wages paid. Unskilled workmen being able to operate machines
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  Speaker 1: as well as trained workers, there are always plenty of
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: the former waiting for work, and for this reason it
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: is impossible to form labor unions. Moreover, attempts at organization
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: of labor have met with decided opposition from the capitalists
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: of the district. Indeed, it may truly be said that
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: the whole district is dominated by the owners of the stockoids.
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  Speaker 1: The various nationalities in the district form a curious conglomerate Irish, German, Poles, Bohemians, Jews, Finns,
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  Speaker 1: Russians and Lithuanians. It is most Unamerican in spirit and
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: in manner of living, from the fact that the entire
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: community seems to be given over to desperate struggle for
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: a livelihood, and there have been until recently almost no
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: influence to humanize and harmonize so many diverse elements. Charity
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  Speaker 1: in the commonly accepted sense of the word is not
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: what is needed in the district like this. The workers
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: are self respecting people who, in spite of the fluctuating
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: condition of labour, refuse to pose as paupers even in
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: idle times. But the results of this irregular employment are
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: poverty and a spirit of independence, coupled, however, with an
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: unwillingness to change lest matters be made worse. It is
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  Speaker 1: with this unhappy combination of difficulties that the residents of
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: the University of Chicago Settlement are trying to cope. The
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: formation of character is aimed at as well as the
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: relief of distress. The industrial situation being what it is,
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: many elements of common interest, educational, social, and recreational must
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  Speaker 1: be introduced before a feeling of common sympathy and an
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  Speaker 1: unconscious growth into harmony of purpose shall bond the now
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: unharmonious elements of the community together. The Chicago Bureau of Charities,
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: operated under the Civic Federation of Chicago, has organized six districts,
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  Speaker 1: each with its President, treasurer, and agent. One of these
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  Speaker 1: districts is the Stockyard's District. The agent, mister A. M. Simmons,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, is a resident
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: of the University of Chicago's Settlement, and from its rooms,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: plans and oversees the relief work of the district. This
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: has proved a most beneficent arrangement, as the residents of
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: the Settlement, because of their close touch with the needy
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: of the commute unity, can give to the scientific worker
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: knowledge of the actual facts of various cases dealt with
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: by the Bureau of Charities. The object both of the
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: Settlement and of the Bureau is to administer relief in
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: such a way that those aid it shall be lifted
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: to a higher spiritual plaim by the aid, rather than
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: be pauperized, as is often the case in philanthropic work.
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  Speaker 1: There are seventy five friendly visitors connected with the Stockyard's district.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: The visitor receives no reward for his or her services,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: but performs a most necessary function in the working system
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: of organized charities. Each family in distress is visited regularly
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: with a view to obtaining a knowledge of its personnel,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: its standard of life, its misfortunes, its weaknesses, and the
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: possibilities rising into stability of livelihood. The visitor endeavors to
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: teach the family in dependence and self respect, and to
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: encourage all attempts at self support. Employment is found for
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: those members who are able to work, and the education
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  Speaker 1: of the children of the family is insisted upon. The
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: most accurate information can thus be given the district agent,
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  Speaker 1: who can thereupon proceed systematically in his treatment of the family.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: If it seems wisest to assist with money, money is supplied,
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  Speaker 1: Medical aid and the attendance of a nurse are given
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: the sick, while, however, every means is employed to relieve
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: the work proceeds in the most scientific manner. The causes
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: for poverty or illness are sought, the physical and mental
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: peculiarities of individuals noted, and steps taken whenever possible to
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: make an upward course easy. During the recent winter, the
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  Speaker 1: cooperation of the Settlement and the Bureau of Charities has
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: been most satisfactory. Charity has been given a meaning widely
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: different from what it has stood for in the past.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: It has become more intelligent, more sympathetic, more effective. The settlement,
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: with its knowledge growing out of its close constant personal contact,
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: the friendly visitor, enlarging the life of the neighbourhood by
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: bringing a continuous, vitalising force from the better favored neighbourhoods.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: The charity organization Society, with its trained officials and recorded knowledge,
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: bring its technical skill to bear upon the most difficult problems.
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  Speaker 1: Foretell a better day for our needy neighbours when we
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: shall no longer be compelled to offer alms to any
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  Speaker 1: able bodied American citizen. It is fast growing evident that
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: the house to house work done by the combined forces
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: of the settlement and the organised charities is aiding the
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: other activities of the settlement. It is not difficult to
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: reach the children of the various families through the friendly visitors.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: The kindergarten, under the direction of missus Mary B. Page,
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: has been a pronounced success from the start. Two choruses
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: are conducted by Miss Marie Hoefer with splendid results. There
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: is a day nursery supported by the South Side Crush Association.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: The same association maintains sewing and dressmaking classes. The cooking
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: classes have outgrown the limits of the settlement kitchen and
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: have been moved to larger quarters of the clubs. The
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: most notable is the Women's Club, conducted by Miss m Dowell,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: the head resident of the settlement. The members of the
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: club have caught the spirit animating the relief force carried
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: on by mister Simmons, and are seeking to put into
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: living operation the ideas developed in the settlement alone. Collection
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: of articles for the sick bedding, hot water bottles, and
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: other necessaries of the sickroom have been contributed by members
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: of the club. The voice of this settlement has not
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: yet rung so plainly in the years of the municipal
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: authorities as has that of Hull House, but it is
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: growing louder all the time. It is demanding that a
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: branch of the Public Library of Chicago be as established
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: in its district. It also claims public baths in a
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: park or two. None of these demands have as yet
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: been granted, but they will be in time. The needs
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: of the people are too evident to be long disregarded,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: and the residents are moreover born agitators. The residents of
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: the settlement have repeatedly called attention to the fact that
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: the health of residents of the Ward the twenty ninth
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: is constantly threatened by the criminal neglect which allows two
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: other wards to make a part of the territory of
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: the twenty ninth Ward a dumping ground for garbage. The
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: death rate in the ward is steadily rising because of
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: the nuisance, though to dump garbage within the city limits
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: is an offense punishable by law. Thus far, the only
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: protests has been that raised by the residence of the Settlement.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: The relations between the University of Chicago and its settlement
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: are most cordial and inspiring. The assistance is felt to
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: be mutual. As Miss mcdal has plainly pointed out, each
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: owes a spiritual debt to the other. The University has
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: a spiritual debt to the Settlement, which is diffusing throughout
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: its wretched community, a better conception of the possibilities of life,
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: higher ideals, cleaner morals, so that the whole level of
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: life will in time be raised. The Settlement owes to
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: the University much of its inspiration and its hope for
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: the future. End of chapter seven, Chapter eight of the
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: Social Settlement Movement in Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond. This
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter eight Epworth House,
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  Speaker 1: one of the recent movements organized in the city of
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: Chicago for the purpose of investigating and improving the social
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: condition of the people in congested districts, is known as
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: the Forward Movement. This movement is an attempt to apply
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: the teacher and practices of Christ to modern life and conditions,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: especially to the neglected classes. The activities of the Forward
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: Movement are directed by a board of trustees, all of
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: whom are members of the Epworth League of the Methodist
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: Episcopal Church. The movement took definite shape in eighteen ninety
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: four when rooms were rented at forty nine Pierce Street
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  Speaker 1: and a social settlement organized under the name of Epworth House.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: A building at two twenty nine and a half South
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: Halsted Street was also rented and named Epworth Hall. Epworth
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: House became the settlement house, Epworth Hall the center for
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: meetings of all sorts. The work of Epworth House, unlike
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: that of other social settlements, is distinctly religious. It is
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: an effort to reach a class of people alienated from
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: churches and not within the reach of ordinary missionary work.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: People largely of the type usually called unfortunate, who are
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: so wholly surrounded by vicious influences that they themselves are
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: rapidly descending to the stratum of the submerged tenth. It
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: is to these people that the activities of the Forward
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: Movement are directed. The district of which Epworth House is
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: the working center, presents most disheartening aspects. The territory is
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: bounded by Madison Street on the north, by the River
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: on the east, by Harrison Street on the south, and
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: by Morgan Street on the west. It contains a population
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: of two hundred thousand people. In this community there are
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: yearly a number of arrests equal to one fourth the population.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: There are three hundred seven licensed saloons, one hundred fifty
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: four wine parlors, nine opium joints, three hundred fifty seven
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: houses of ill fame, and eight gambling houses. But four
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: hundred shops are open regularly on Sunday. What a banner
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: of vice to flourish in the eyes of the workers
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: at Epworth House, who have taken as the motto of
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: their faith, the wilderness shall blossom as the rose in
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: all this desert of evil. There are only two churches,
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: one Protestant and one Catholic. There are also five small
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: missions scattered throughout the district. These were the only sources
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: of religious influence before evangelic work was undertaken at Epworth Hall.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: Several services are held on Sunday and their week day
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: and week night meetings. In a word, Epworth House is
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: an evangelistic settlement and the means chosen of reaching the
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: ungospeled masses are evangelistic ones. All the methods of Epworth
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: House seem based upon faith that support of every kind
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: will be forthcoming when needed. There is no financial endowment
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: save that contributed by friends. From week to week. The
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: head worker, doctor George W. Gray, gives his services, directing
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: all details of the management of the settlement, preaching, visiting,
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: taking long journeys to appeal to distant churches in behalf
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: of the work in Chicago. There are five other residents
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: at Epworth House, only one of whom receives any compensation
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: for her never ceasing work social, religious and educational. The
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: rooms of Epworth House are not beautiful like those of
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: Hull House. The furniture looks forlorn and old. The pictures
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: hanging on the walls are not of the highest type
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: of art. An appearance of meagerness pervades the place. Members
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: of the community who may pass in and out of
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: the house can hardly be impressed with its furnishings. Yet
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: one is met at the threshold with cordiality, which is
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: spontaneous with words of warm welcome. A woman with a
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: face like sunshine communicates by the grasp of her hand
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: the warmth of her kindly heart. The women about Epworth
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: House confide in her, the young girls trust her, the
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: children love her. A sort of take no thought for
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: the moral atmosphere seems to pervade the settlement. It is
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: a marvel how the rent has always been paid, how
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: the janitor and matron and receive their salaries. There's no
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: systematic provision for the expenses of the settlement, and yet
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: the work goes bravely on from day to day, as
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: Epworth leagues and churches and private sympathizes send their contributions
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: to help the gospel settlement on. Though Epworth House stands
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: for evangelical work, it carries on the various lines of
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: work found in the other social settlements, the kindergarten clubs, choruses,
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: mothers meetings, et cetera. The community has responded, as to
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: all communities, to sympathy and humanity. Any appearance of institutionalism
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: is carefully avoided by the residents of Epworth House. Their
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: work is based upon the conviction that the Christian purpose
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: of the church is not to be an institution, but
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: an influence. So the religious work done in connection with
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: the various functions of the settlements does not seek to
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: make Methodists, but to make men and women. End of
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: chapter eight, Chapter nine of these Social Settlement Movement in
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: Chicago by Josephine Hunt Braymont. This LibriVox recording is in
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: the public domain. Chapter nine, Chicago Commons. The Social settlement
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: has become a kind of social observatory, furnishing an outlook
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: upon industrial conditions of all sorts. The data obtained from
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: such an outlook are providing most valuable to students of
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: social phenomena. The conditions of labor, the needs of the
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: working classes, the necessity of interpreting these needs to all
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: who possess the higher conscience. All these may be observed
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: from the outlook of the Social Settlement. Beginning as a
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: vantage ground for the better conservation of social data, the
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: settlement has come to be a living part of the
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: labor movement. It pledges itself to cooperate with the industrial
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: community about it to obtain a better standard of life,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: living wages, just legislation for the workers. This is the newest,
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: the highest development of the idea of the social settlement.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: The labor movement is not a thing of the past.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: Its progress is seen in the better organization of labor
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: and in the growing feeling of altruism, which recognizes the
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: interdependence of all classes of society. It was due to
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: a conviction that the highest function of the social settlement
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: is to join the hands of organized labor in our
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: educational institutions and thus most surely and speedily bring in
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: the reign of industrial peace and social unification in the
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: cooperative commonwealth. That is to be that the settlement known
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: as Chicago Commons began work in eighteen ninety four at
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: one forty North Union Street in Chicago. The prime mover
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: in the enterprise was Graham Taylor, professor of sociology in
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: Chio Cargo Theological Seminary. He saw at the outset that
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: a settlement in an industrial community would prove a most
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: valuable statistical laboratory, a field for original research into social
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: and economic conditions. His primary object was to furnish such
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: a laboratory, but gradually the purpose of the settlement widened
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: until today it has become a rallying point for the
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: champions of civic regeneration, of good citizenship, and of organized labor.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: The idea from which all practical work grows at Chicago
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: Commons is that of industrial and social democracy. The name
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: of the settlement indicates conclusively its object. The word Commons
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: as the spirit of old English freemen in it with
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: suggestions of ideal democracy irrespective of pecuniary circumstances or social status.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: The Common is first of all a social clearinghouse, a
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: common center where various grades of society meet and mingle,
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: and thus formed the bonds of social unification. Gradually and
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: merely as means to an end. Around the center have
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: grown up various activities and interests in the way of
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: educational classes and social clubs. Besides the work centering in
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: the kindergarten and the savings Bank, there are sixty or
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: more gatherings each week devoted to training of one sort
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: or another, the elementary and higher branches of study, manual training,
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: and music. But first of all, as has been said,
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: the Commons is identified with the labour movement and all
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: its various activities aid in the development of its central purpose.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: This purpose is being worked out in three ways. First,
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: the Industrial and Economic Union, an organization meeting weekly at
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: the commons, is making the working people of the community
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: intelligent in the live issues of the day. Those who
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: have heretofore held no opinion save as were denunciator of
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: all institutions and persons, are growing to have more clearly
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: defined ideas on labor, its rights and its abuses. Here, individualists, socialists,
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: single taxes, and others representing every shade of opinion meet
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: and amicably discussed questions relating to the world of labor.
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: Some topics recently discussed are the social outlook, the scientific
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: basis of equality, socialism, duties of labor leaders, the relation
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: of socialism to the single tax, proportional representation, et cetera.
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: We read lovingly of the labors of Arnold Toynbee in
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: East London, of his patient instruction of workingmen who listened
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: eagerly to his careful expositions of the fundamental principles of
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: political economy. We remember how his gentle influence came to
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  Speaker 1: be felt more and more in the larger view taken
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  Speaker 1: by these same listeners. It is not improbable that the
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  Speaker 1: same result is being obtained at Chicago Commons. A working
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  Speaker 1: community is being drawn together and instructed on the great
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: questions whose solution makes for poverty or comfort, for oppression
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  Speaker 1: or independence. The solution of these questions is comprehended in
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of the word which Phillips Brooks loved to use, mutualism. Second,
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Commons has become identified with active attempts to bring
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  Speaker 1: about reforms in the civic life of Chicago. It is
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  Speaker 1: aided in the organization of the seventeenth Ward Council of
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  Speaker 1: the Civic Federation. A strong influence has been exerted by
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  Speaker 1: the Council on the politics of the Ward, and the
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  Speaker 1: moral tone of the Ward shows the effect of hard
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  Speaker 1: work on the part of the residence of the common. Third,
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  Speaker 1: the organ of the Settlement, published monthly, is proving beneficial
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  Speaker 1: in disseminating the opinions of the Warden Professor Taylor regarding
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: the Settlement and the labour question. A series of papers
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: running through the year give the historytorcal development of the
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: labor movement. Various questions relating to the life of the
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: work and classes are brought from the sphere of theory
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  Speaker 1: into the sphere of fact and are applied to the
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: needs of personal life. In an address before the National
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  Speaker 1: Conference of Charities in Correction, June eighteen ninety six, Professor
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  Speaker 1: Taylor said, loyalty to law and legal measures to secure
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  Speaker 1: and maintain rights may at this moment depend more than
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: anything else, upon the popular interpretation of the movement of
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  Speaker 1: labor from its legal inferiority to its equality before the law.
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  Speaker 1: No public services of greater moment than this, which these
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: settlements are exceptionally well circumstanced to render. End of chapter nine,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten of the Social Settlement Movement in Chicago by
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  Speaker 1: Josephine Hunt Raymond. This librivoxial quoting is in public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten. The medical missionary call it settlement. Every social
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  Speaker 1: settlement has in view the same ultimate goal, the winning
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  Speaker 1: of the community about it to the higher life. Yet
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: while all settlement workers agree that this is the end
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: hoped for, it is evident that each particular settlement has
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  Speaker 1: in mind one or more remedies which it considers beneficent
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: for particular forms of social evil. These remedies are suggested
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: by the character in need of the community about it.
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  Speaker 1: What is indispensable to one district, however, is often not
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  Speaker 1: so necessary for the welfare of another community. This being
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  Speaker 1: the case, it is natural that each settlement should become
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: identified with certain methods which give to it an individuality
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: shaped by its ideals. One settlement is pledged to neighborhood work,
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: another to municipal reform, another to religious work, and so on,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: each giving its best effort to that form of social
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: corrective which seems most needful at that time and for
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  Speaker 1: that community. The settlement, known as the Medical Missionary College
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: Settlement as a working plant distinctively its own, its activities
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: being directed almost wholly along the lines of physical welfare.
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  Speaker 1: This is but a means to an end that end
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  Speaker 1: the higher spiritual life. The measures employed by the workers
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: of the settlement are such as tend to create high
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  Speaker 1: ideals of cleanliness, of health, and of healthful diet. The settlement,
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  Speaker 1: located at seven forty four forty seventh Street, Chicago, was
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  Speaker 1: established in eighteen ninety five by the Seventh day Adventist,
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  Speaker 1: Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association of Battle Creek, Michigan. The
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: settlement is only one of various enterprises carried on under
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: the same auspices in order to understand the work of
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: the settlement, it will be necessary to give an idea
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: of the parent work and its various branches. Probably no
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  Speaker 1: institution of its kind is better known in this country
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  Speaker 1: than the Battle Creek Sanitarium. The Association supporting the Sanitarium
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: carries on three other enterprises in Battle Creek, the Nurses
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: Training School, the James White Memorial Home for the Aged,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: and the Haskell Orphans Home. In Chicago, the Association has
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  Speaker 1: established the Chicago Branch Sanitarium, the Chicago Medical College, the
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: Workingmen's Home and Medical Mission, and the Medical Missionary College Settlement.
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  Speaker 1: There are also twenty medical missionary stations located in various
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  Speaker 1: parts of the United States, Mexico, Europe, Asia and Africa.
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  Speaker 1: This vast work supported by the Association at Battle Creek
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: has received large requests from sympathizing friends, so that as
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  Speaker 1: yet Chicago, which receives the benefit of the branch work
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: established in that city, has never been asked for aid.
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  Speaker 1: Two brothers in Cape Town, South Africa, have invested forty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars the income to be used for the support
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  Speaker 1: of the medical mission in Chicago. A wealthy landowner, the
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  Speaker 1: late mister Edward C. Petticoord bequeathed to the Association a
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: farm of one hundred and sixty acres near Marseilles, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: to be used for the benefit of the mission work.
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  Speaker 1: The farm is to be devoted to various enterprises on
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: the cooperative plan, the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, and
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: various other lines of industrial work. The farm will be
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  Speaker 1: made the means of restoring to usefulness men who, through
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: misfortune or in temperance, have fallen into idleness and want.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: It would be impossible, in the brief compass of this
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  Speaker 1: chapter to describe the great work done by even one
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: branch of the Association. The above facts have been given
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: to set forth the source and scope of the philanthropic effort,
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: one branch of which is the Medical Missionary College Settlement
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: at forty seventh Street. As the name indicates, the work
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: of the settlement is founded on sanitary principles. The residents
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: of the settlement are seven visiting nurses, two physicians, and
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: a matron, all having received their training at the training
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  Speaker 1: school at Battle Creek. The same mode of life is
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  Speaker 1: carefully observed here, which is a part of the curative
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  Speaker 1: plan of the sanitarium. A vegetarian diet on only two
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: meals a day. The community about the settlement is made
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  Speaker 1: up of the better class of poor, Irish and American
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: preponderating the greatest need of the neighbors is a better
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: knowledge of the fundamental principles of decent living, a better
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: understanding of the human body, the correct preparation of hygienic foods,
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: frequent bathing, et cetera. This end the Settlement is seeking
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: to accomplish in the community. It stands for practically philanthropic
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: rather than social work. The bathrooms and cooking apparatus having
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: a very definite meaning to those who come to the
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: settlement rooms for instruction. The activities of the settlement divide
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: themselves naturally into medical, home making, and religious. This is
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  Speaker 1: a most comprehensive nomenclature, each division of activity comprehending many
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: contributing lines of work. One, as has been said, the
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: medical corps connected with the institution consists of two physicians,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: a man and a woman, and a number of trained nurses.
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  Speaker 1: Physicians and nurses are alike at the service of the
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: sick at any time. Those unable to pay being treated. Free.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: Appliances are provided for bats of all sorts, and for
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: electrical and massage treatment ministered by skilled attendants. It seemed
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: to me a fitting name that bestowed on the visiting
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: nurses by some grateful soul angels of mercy. As they
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: go here and there into wretched garrets and cellars into homes,
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: now bathing and dressing a newborn baby, and caring for
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: the destitute mother, dressing wounds, soothing the restless, fever stricken patient.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: They are the sweetest ministers of good in a crowded
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: city life to many a distressed soul. The sober garb
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: of the visiting nurses the symbol of a living charity. Two.
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: Many lines of work enter into that class of activities
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: which I have denominated homemaking. Mother's meetings are held monthly
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: for the purpose of discussing topics relating to home matters,
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: the rearing of children, how to make home attractive, how
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: to buy economically, et cetera. A cooking school affords opportunities
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: for becoming familiar with the best methods of scientific cookery.
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: The teachers are graduates of the Battle Creek Sanitarium School
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: of Cookery. So in classes are being successfully carried on
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  Speaker 1: with a good average attendance. A free kindergarten, day nursery
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: and kitchen garden have already gained a firm hold on
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: the homes of the community. Through the children, a physiology
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: class numbering seventy children is being instructed in the fundamental
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: facts of life. Another method employed for reaching the neighborhood
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: is through free popular lectures on subjects relating to the
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: care of the body and of the home. In these lectures,
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: the vital necessities of health are set forth good ventilation,
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: frequent bathing, dress, reform, etc. Three. Here As at Epworth House,
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  Speaker 1: the religious element is kept plainly before the community. Gospel
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: meetings are held at the settlement and at neighboring houses.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: Frequently the visiting nurse begs the privilege of holding a
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: prayer meeting at the home of one to whom she
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: is ministering to. One making the rounds of the social
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: settlements of Chicago earnestly, endeavoring to reach the underlying purpose
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: of clubs, classes, gospel work, and public lectures. The work
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: of the settlement just described impresses one with a grateful
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: sense of the eternal fitness of its mission, teaching the
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: common facts of existence how to live clean, healthy lives,
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: and how to make attractive, sanitary homes. The Social Settlement
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: accomplishes this, and this alone it achieves a work of
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: surpassing beneficence. End of chapter ten. Chapter eleven of the
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  Speaker 1: Social Settlement Movement in Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond. This
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter eleven The
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  Speaker 1: Helen Heath Settlement. The Helen Heath Settlement of Chicago is,
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: like Toynbee Hall in East London, a memorial of the
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: loving labors of one saintly soul. The story of Arnold
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: Toynbee in his beautiful life recurs to us his work
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: among the poor of East London, the sacrifice of body
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: and mind made in the effort to instruct and elevate
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: the unfortunate, his death caused by overwork in their behalf.
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: Toynbee Hall is a memorial commemorating the self abnegation, the ideals,
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: the hopes of Arnold Toynbee. The Helen Heath Settlement, too,
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: is a memorial given by loving friends of the work
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: of Helen Heatham on the poor and ignorant. The story
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: is one of infinite pathos. Doctor Helen Heath, the woman
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: of strong philanthropic sympathies, one who had devoted herself to
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: those in need, came before the members of All Souls
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: Church on the night of the annual business banquet of
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: the church. She had been asked to present a report
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: of the needs of certain districts, the residents of which
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: the church had undertaken to relieve. While reading her report
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: and urging immediate aid for the poor, she was stricken
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: with death. A pall of sadness enveloped the church. Doctor
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: Heath had been one of the strongest working members, and
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: the loss suffered by her death seemed irreparable. But out
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: of the loss rose a new thought, the idea of
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: building a memorial to the life and work of this
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: noble woman. In a few months, the idea became an
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: accomplished fact, and the most important activity of All Souls
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: Church was born the Helen Heath Settlement. During the summer
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: of eighteen ninety five, a beautiful brick cottage was erected
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: at eight sixty nine thirty three Court, the entire property
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: costing about four thousand dollars. All Souls Church adopted into
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: its bosom, as it were a large district of which
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: the settlement has been made a center of noble work.
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: The district is one full of dire and crying need
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: for help. Many Poles and Bohemians reside in this part
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: of the city, and during the brief life of the
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: settlement it is substantially relieved suffering incident to lack of
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: employment among the laborers of the community. Iroumi Flat nearby
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: accommodates four residents who assist and the educational work of
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: the settlement. The settlement house itself is so small that
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: it can never be more than a cozy and beautiful
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: center for various gatherings, as it contains only half a
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: dozen rooms, two large beautiful rooms on the ground floor
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: for the kindergarten, and four above. Here the resident physician,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: doctor Laurinda G. Brown, took up the broken thread of
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: doctor Heath's professional work. As one enters the sunny kindergarten
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: rooms of the cottage, an inscription over the beautiful mantle
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: meets the eye, the name of her whose work inspired
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: the idea of the settlement, and the words she hath
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: done what she could, surely if her eyes illumined by
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: the knowledge of what the next life has in store
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: could gaze for a while into the beautiful room, filled
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: with the brightness and the innocence of childhood. She must
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: feel that her labors have not ceased, but have multiplied
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: a hundredfold and been crowned with a majestic glory, receiving
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: as it does the support of all Soul's Church and
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: the direct supervision of the charitable section of the membership
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: of the church. The helen Heath Settlement, during its eighteen
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: months life has wrought a good work. Its activities differ
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: but little from those of other settlements, though as yet
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: the work is on a very modest scale. Only educational
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: and charitable work has been attempted, the latter made absolutely
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: necessary by lack of employment among the people near the settlement. Truly,
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: she built it better than she knew who gave by
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: her life the inspiration for this work, which bids fair
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: to grow into Goodly's stature. The power of a single
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: human life to achieve is something incomprehensible. This one was
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: mighty in life, but mightier in death. One is reminded
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: of Owen Meredith's words. No stream from its source flows seaward,
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 1: how lonely soever its course, but that some land is gladdened.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: No star of arose and set without influence somewhere who
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: knows what Earth needs from Earth's lowest creatures. No life
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife.
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: In all life not be purer and stronger thereby end
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: of chapter eleven. Chapter twelve of the Social Settlement Movement
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: in Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond. This LibriVox recording is
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Chapter twelve the Elm Street Settlement.
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: In eighteen seventy six, in the district of Chicago known
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: as Little Hell, a group of benevolent people started, in
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: a modest way a sowing and cooking school for girls.
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: In this part of the city, the ignorance and squalor
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: of the people are extreme, and it was hoped that
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: a movement which, in even a small way influenced the
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: girls might in some manner touch the homes of the community.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: Reading and writing soon were added to the curriculum, as
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: it was found that many of the girls who attended
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: the classes had never attended the public schools and now
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: felt too old to begin. Gradually, the activities of the
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: school developed to such an extent that it was thought
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: best to incorporate it as an industrial school with a
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: visiting committee, a matron, and an assistant. In eighteen eighty
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: the school was accepted as a charge by Unity Church
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: and name Unity Church Industrial School for Girls. The chief
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: aim of the school was to train girls for domestic
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: service and to inculcate in them the feeling that such
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: service is as thoroughly honorable as the factory life into
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: which most of them hurried as soon as they were
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: able to work at all. Even in families most wretchedly poor,
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: crowded together in little dens, in filth and squalor, most
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: girls preferred going into shops and factories and living at home,
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: with no thought of elevating the standard of living or
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: of preparation for the duties of wifehood or motherhood. Until
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: the year eighteen eighty four, the Industrial School performed its functions,
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: now rapidly increasing, at two fifty three Larabee Street, and
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: that year mister Joshua Bates bequeathed twelve thousand dollars for
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: a new building and grounds for the school. The building
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: was erected at eighty Elm Street and dedicated October fifth,
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: eighteen eighty four. It is a large, handsome structure surrounded
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: with roomy grounds, rare enough in this part of the city.
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: From the time of the erection of its new quarters,
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: the activities of the school steadily increased. A day nursery
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: in a kindergarten grew to be necessary adjuncts in the community.
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: The boys of the neighborhood were admitted to classes, and
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: the problem of the boys came to rival the problem
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: of the girls. One may speak advisedly in thus naming
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: the solicitude felt for the boys of the neighborhood. The
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: problem of the boys the community, made up of Irish
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: and American poor, is one of the most vicious in
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: the city. The children early become incorrigible. How to keep
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 1: them out of the streets is the question of questions.
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: In eighteen ninety five, at the earnest desire of many
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: of the members of Unity Church, as well as other
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: friends of the school, the various lines of work were
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: concentrated in a social settlement to be known as the
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: Elm Street Settlement. Missus Helen Campbell feigned for her investigations
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: in the world of labour and for her searching analyzes
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: of the conditions of poverty and distress, became head resident,
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: Missus Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the socialist poet, also lived for
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: a time at the Elm Street Settlement. A settlement Board
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: composed of nine women connected with Unity Church as the
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: control of the settlement finances, matters of settlement policy, etc.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: As in most of the other settlements, may be found
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: the savings bank, the reading room, clubs and classes, mothers, meetings,
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: and all the various means devised to bring members of
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: the community into a wholesome social atmosphere. A woman's club
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: of one hundred members augurs well for the future of
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: as many homes in this district sadly in need of
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: radical suggestions in the way of homemaking and wife making.
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: The growth of the Elm Street Settlement has been rapid.
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: The outlook is at once disheartening and encouraging. Disheartening because
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: of the depravity of little Hell. Encouraging because of the
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: strength of the working force arrayed at the settlement against
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: the ignorance and vice of the community. Scarcely a passing
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: glance at the human tide which flows daily in and
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: out of the Elm Street Settlement is needed to prove
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: that there are needs more pitiful than those of immediate
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: hunger and nakedness, and that the power of years of
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  Speaker 1: patience and moral firmness will be necessary to repair the
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  Speaker 1: ravages of hereditary vice and ignorance. The movement is slowly upward.
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  Speaker 1: Evolution works its marvels in society as well as in
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  Speaker 1: the Amiba. The power or which will regenerate little Hell
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  Speaker 1: may lie in the patience and persistence of a few who,
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  Speaker 1: day by day marvel at the fertility of Jimmy Maloney's deviltry,
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  Speaker 1: and shudder at the shiftlessness of Missus o'flarety's whole household,
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  Speaker 1: and look over the day, wonder, almost hopelessly, if anything
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  Speaker 1: has been accomplished, how far that little candle throws his
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  Speaker 1: beams so shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter twelve. Chapter thirteen of the Social Settlement
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  Speaker 1: Movement in Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Chapter thirteen, The Kirkland Settlement.
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  Speaker 1: The History of the Kirkland Settlement, if a few brief
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  Speaker 1: months can be dignified with the name of history, is
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  Speaker 1: full of pathetic interest, for it bears the shadow of
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  Speaker 1: an unfulfilled hope, and of a life baffled in its
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  Speaker 1: noblest purpose. Life stories like those of Elizabeth Kirkland and
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  Speaker 1: Helen Heath impress one with the futility of hoping to
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  Speaker 1: finish grandly what one begins, but thrill the heart, nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: with the consciousness that no man liveth to himself, and
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  Speaker 1: no man dieth to himself, and that the world is
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  Speaker 1: better for a noble purpose but half fulfilled. Miss Elizabeth Kirkland,
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  Speaker 1: for many years prominent in Chicago's educational circles as principal
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  Speaker 1: of the Kirkland School, a private seminary for girls. Determined
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  Speaker 1: to devote the remaining years of her life to work
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  Speaker 1: among the poorer classes of Chicago. Feeling that great possibilities
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  Speaker 1: for good lie in the social settlement, she planned a
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  Speaker 1: settlement of her own in which certain pet educational projects
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  Speaker 1: should be carried out. Renting an old family mansion, bearing
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  Speaker 1: all over it the marks of fate gentility, she took
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  Speaker 1: up her life on Indiana Street among the poorer classes.
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  Speaker 1: The community is not the lowest Stratham, but is made
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  Speaker 1: up of ignorant and unfortunate, such as needs social recreation
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  Speaker 1: and much instruction of every kind, but sudden and alarming
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  Speaker 1: illness warned Miss Kirkland that her new work must be
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  Speaker 1: laid down just as she had taken it up, and
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  Speaker 1: she requested her sister, Miss Cordelia Kirkland, who had been
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  Speaker 1: for many years a resident of California, but who was
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  Speaker 1: with her sister in her last illness, to carry on
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  Speaker 1: the work at least until the time for which the
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  Speaker 1: house had been taken two years expired. Miss Kirkland's death
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  Speaker 1: July thirtieth, eighteen ninety six took from the Kirkland Settlement
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  Speaker 1: its creative power. The work still goes on, although only
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  Speaker 1: a few months of the two years lease remain. Whether
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  Speaker 1: or not interested friends will continue the work planned by
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  Speaker 1: Miss Kirkland in the hope that her coming into the
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood might quicken into being some germs of the higher
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  Speaker 1: life is not definitely known. There is no doubt that
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  Speaker 1: one very important branch of the settlement will prosper, for
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  Speaker 1: its beginning and growth have been remarkably propitious. Leaving out
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  Speaker 1: of consideration the kindergarten, the day nursery, the sewing and
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  Speaker 1: cooking classes, etc. The most interesting feature of the Kirkland
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  Speaker 1: Settlement is the Lake Villa Juvenile municipality the famous Bradley
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  Speaker 1: Club of Chicago. This club, organized by mister E. L. Bradley,
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  Speaker 1: now a resident of Kirkland Settlement, is working out in
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  Speaker 1: a very simple way the vexed problem how to obtain
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  Speaker 1: pure municipal politics. Two hundred and fifty boys, the voters
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  Speaker 1: of the future, are almost unconsciously being educated in all
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  Speaker 1: that pertains to good citizenship and to a thorough knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of municipal affairs. Mister Bradley, who is a graduate of
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  Speaker 1: Princeton University, is endowed with a strong sympathy for boys,
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  Speaker 1: combined with great resources for holding them to a purpose.
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  Speaker 1: He has rented an old store of two flats at
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  Speaker 1: two nineteen Indiana Street, where as a means to an end,
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  Speaker 1: he has evening classes in pressed ironwork, whittling, electricity, and
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  Speaker 1: rough carpentry. A gymnasium furnishes an outlet for two exuberant
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  Speaker 1: spirits and develops neglected strength. The club forms a municipality,
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  Speaker 1: the members holding their elections and electing to office Mayor, aldermen,
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  Speaker 1: and all the other city officials. No magnate holding office
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  Speaker 1: of any sort in the city government of Chicago is
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  Speaker 1: omitted from the miniature municipality of the Bradley Club. Civil
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  Speaker 1: service examinations must be taken, and whatever preliminaries are necessary
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  Speaker 1: for holding office come to be familiar facts to these
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  Speaker 1: incipient citizens. Indirectly, some ideas other than facts relating to
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  Speaker 1: office holding are communicated to the boys. The significance of
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  Speaker 1: a public trust, the necessity of filling an office trustworthily,
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  Speaker 1: the ignominy attached to lack of fidelity to one's duty.
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  Speaker 1: All these are inculcated blind by line. Once a month
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  Speaker 1: a trial is held. Judge, jury, attorneys all are in
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  Speaker 1: their places during the month. There is great vigilance, boys
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  Speaker 1: watching warily, not themselves, but others, lest a tempting offense
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  Speaker 1: escape their notice, which would furnish excellent material for a trial.
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  Speaker 1: At a recent meeting of the club, a boy was
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  Speaker 1: tried for an offense, but acquit it. It was great excitement.
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  Speaker 1: Almost the entire club accused the jury, judge and attorneys
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  Speaker 1: of having accepted bribes. There was much discussion of a
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  Speaker 1: very high sounding sort, talk of a new trial and
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  Speaker 1: other measures. In outside her thinking the youth must have
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  Speaker 1: committed some very heinous misdeed, insisted on knowing what he
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: had done to cause such excitement. The reply was he
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: coughed with intent to disturb the good results of training,
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: which may, in many respects seem to approach the farce
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 1: can hardly be estimated. What a city government is, what
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  Speaker 1: it stands for, its various departments, the duties of the
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  Speaker 1: heads of departments, et cetera. All these facts will be
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly understood a generation. Hence by the lads who are
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  Speaker 1: now mister Bradley's charges. Through the generosity of friends, Allendale Farm,
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  Speaker 1: located Cedar Lake, Illinois, has been purchased for the club. Here,
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  Speaker 1: those of the members who are entitled to the privilege,
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  Speaker 1: either by their exemplary conduct or by their homelessness, spend
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  Speaker 1: long glorious summers planting and tending crops, milking cows, fishing
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  Speaker 1: and swimming, and doing everything which can be done on
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  Speaker 1: a farm by boys who have been accustomed only to
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  Speaker 1: dingy city surroundings. One boy, who has never seen Allendale Farm,
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  Speaker 1: but who hopes to do so during the coming summer,
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  Speaker 1: in conjecturing what the place would be like, remark confidentially
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  Speaker 1: that he hoped it would be like a lake, adding
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  Speaker 1: with a flash in his eyes. There's swimming in li
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  Speaker 1: Surely anyone who can open to homeless and perhaps worse
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  Speaker 1: than homeless boys, the vista of delights furnished by Allandale
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  Speaker 1: Farm is worthy to become one of the immortals. He
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  Speaker 1: who makes possible to a child a happy childhood free
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  Speaker 1: from polluting influences, has helped the world on by a
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  Speaker 1: great step. Missus Browning's Cry of the Children brought its
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  Speaker 1: perfect work. The most stupid of us know that the
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  Speaker 1: world of the future must be good or evil, just
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  Speaker 1: as the condition of children of to day dictates so
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  Speaker 1: to have a merry world years. Hence, these sad children
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  Speaker 1: of today must be given their birthright of happiness. The
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  Speaker 1: vicious must be made to love, the morally lovely, and
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  Speaker 1: the ignorant must be educated. The world is moving around
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  Speaker 1: to the children, and the Bradley Club is one indication
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  Speaker 1: of this fact. The Kirkland Settlement may be but temporary.
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  Speaker 1: Yet in two years what may not have been wrought
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  Speaker 1: in a day or even an hour, whole life purposes
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  Speaker 1: are altered, though the instruction may come to an end
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  Speaker 1: here in the shabby settlement house. The humanity which underlies
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  Speaker 1: the spoken words may have wrought miracles which only the
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  Speaker 1: future will reveal. End of chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen of
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  Speaker 1: the Social Settlement Movement in Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: The social settlement as a place of exchange. The social
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  Speaker 1: settlement is primarily a place of exchange to those unacquainted
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  Speaker 1: with its real life, the inner life where personalities come
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  Speaker 1: together and where the real work of transformation goes on.
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  Speaker 1: The settlement appears to be a philanthropic enterprise in which
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  Speaker 1: the benefit flows from once or slone the settlement workers.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is farther from the truth. The benefit is mutual settlement.
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  Speaker 1: Resuscidence of wide experience testify that they have gained quite
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  Speaker 1: as much lasting good from the community whose life they
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  Speaker 1: are sharing as they can possibly have given. It is
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  Speaker 1: natural to dwell upon the objective value of the social settlement.
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  Speaker 1: One can readily recognize the advantages accruing to a poor
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  Speaker 1: and ignorant community from the advent of a few cultivated
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  Speaker 1: people who have come to share with the neighborhood their
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  Speaker 1: own superior, mental and spiritual heritage. The tasteful rooms of
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  Speaker 1: the settlement house reveal hints of beauty which, though unattainable
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  Speaker 1: in many meager homes, refine the senses and educate the taste.
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  Speaker 1: The atmosphere of friendly sympathy which pervades the settlement calls
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  Speaker 1: forth the confidence of the community, which, once gained, proves
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  Speaker 1: a powerful lever for the introduction of needed reforms. Acting
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  Speaker 1: as a socializing force, the settlement brings together representatives of
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  Speaker 1: the various classes of society. The feeling of distrust with
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  Speaker 1: which the poor regard the more fortunate, melts away, however slowly,
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  Speaker 1: in the feelings of a common humanity. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: the settlement should exercise the socializing function. Class distinctions pale
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of the spirit of democracy, which must
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  Speaker 1: constitute the very life of the social settlement. Indeed, all
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  Speaker 1: the intellectual effort put forth in classes and clubs for
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  Speaker 1: the benefit of those who have missed the opportunities of
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  Speaker 1: education amounts to little of the teachers have not communicated
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  Speaker 1: something of their own ambitions and aspirations, as well as
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  Speaker 1: the mere texts which they are trying to interpret. Lessons
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  Speaker 1: of morality and refinement may often be taught in terms
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  Speaker 1: of arithmetic and reading. If the instructors have spiritual vision.
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  Speaker 1: In the brief summary given in preceding chapters, an attempt
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  Speaker 1: has been made to describe the different lines of activity
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  Speaker 1: in which the various social settlements of Chicago engage. It
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: has been seen that in some localities the need for
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  Speaker 1: civic reform seems most pressing. In others, where the religious
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  Speaker 1: nature seems dormant, the people receive strong religious appeals. But
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  Speaker 1: whatever the predominating activity of the settlement, the end sought
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  Speaker 1: is the same, a quickening of the social consciousness of
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  Speaker 1: the community, a discontent with bad social conditions, and a
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 1: hunger for better ones. But what social service flows into
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  Speaker 1: the settlement house On this point, it is interesting to
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  Speaker 1: note the testimonies received in answer to a series of
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  Speaker 1: questions submitted to eighty three persons who had been identified
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  Speaker 1: with settlement work. All show wonderful unanimity and their loyalty
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  Speaker 1: to the settlement and to the wider ideal of mutual
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: social service. All agree that the knowledge gained in the
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: social settlement is invaluable. The very existence of the settlement
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  Speaker 1: is a protest against existing conditions. Many people who are
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  Speaker 1: drawn hither by curiosity go away filled with the sickening
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  Speaker 1: knowledge that there are conditions of life widely different from
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: their own, and that the suffering and sorrow of the
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  Speaker 1: poor call for recognition. A wider sympathy is gained by
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  Speaker 1: those who come face to face with the problems of poverty.
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  Speaker 1: One worker testifies, when I am in the atmosphere of
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: the settlement, class distinction seems so artificial that it seems
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  Speaker 1: possible to do away with them. Sometimes everywhere else, the
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 1: settlement idea seems so foreign to people's minds that I
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  Speaker 1: think class distinctions will be done away with only when
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  Speaker 1: Christianity has completed its perfect work. Another gives this testimony,
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: my attitude towards social and industrial problems has entirely changed
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: from my experience in settlement work. I have seen so
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: much and heard so much that is entirely new to me.
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  Speaker 1: My feeling toward the poor has changed from pity to
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  Speaker 1: a sense of honorest comradeship, and has made my life
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  Speaker 1: full of new hopes and aims. I cannot be sufficiently
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  Speaker 1: thankful for the year I spent at the settlement. Another replies,
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: I had little or no knowledge of industrial problems before
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: coming to the settlement, and much of the little I
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: have now came from work which I might probably have
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 1: never done except for settlement influence. Still another testifies I
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: felt more the needs of the people than before, because
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  Speaker 1: what I had known before with my head I now
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: understand with my heart. I did not become a socialist,
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: but I did feel that many beneficent laws might be
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  Speaker 1: enacted which would ameliorate the condition of the poor without
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  Speaker 1: interfering with any rightful freedom or liberty of the community
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 1: as a whole. Here are strong words from another resident
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: of wide experience. My first very close and direct contact
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 1: during a winter of great stress with the under side
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  Speaker 1: of things, produced a spirit of antagonism and bitterness to
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: some degree toward those blinded by luxury and wealth, and
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: toward the careless and indifferent. Subsequent experiences have made me
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  Speaker 1: realize that the social question will in no degree be
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: solved by sympathy toward one class to the exclusion of another.
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  Speaker 1: Pity and large mindedness are needed quite as much in
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  Speaker 1: one as in the other. I might multiply these testimonies
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  Speaker 1: and evidence of the value of social settlement work to
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  Speaker 1: the workers themselves. Many even bear witness to the fact
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  Speaker 1: that life in a settlement is far from being a
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: life of deprivation. Separate it though it be from uptown pleasures.
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  Speaker 1: It is to me the happiest and fullest life that
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  Speaker 1: I know or can imagine. One writes, the true significance
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  Speaker 1: of a home was taught me there its best right
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  Speaker 1: to happiness. And as the opportunity has come to me,
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 1: I have tried to make my own home such a
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: center as I learned to feel through settlement life that
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: a home should be. Settlement life has its sparkles of merriment,
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: as well as his long serious days of hard work.
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 1: When the powers of body and mind are so strained
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  Speaker 1: to the utmost effort, people actuated by manifold motives come
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 1: to the settlement feeling that there they shall supply every
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 1: need of the human heart. It stands in the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of the neighborhood for an institution where information of every
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  Speaker 1: conceivable kind may be obtained. One man comes to be
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  Speaker 1: shown how to make sense of poetry. Another wants his
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: wife convert it to the evangelical faith. Another insists that
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  Speaker 1: the patrol wagon is kept here. One neighbor requests that
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  Speaker 1: the residence of the Chicago Commons keep two dogs for
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: him during an absence from the city. A woman desires
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  Speaker 1: a refractory neighbor sent to jail. Another has been robbed
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: of her chickens, and urges that the head worker pursue
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: and capture the thief. But the plea which crowns all
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: the others is that of a mother who announces that
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: the baby has swallowed a half dollar, and who wants
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: to know how to recover the money. The time is coming,
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  Speaker 1: is indeed here now for many whose moral consciousness is quickening,
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: when men and women will go to the congested districts
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: of great cities for inspiration and food for soul growth,
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: as the physically ill journey to the seashore into the
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: mountains in quest of bodily rest and refreshment. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter fourteen, Chapter fifteen of the Social Settlement Movement in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago by Josephine Hunt Raymond. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Chapter fifteen, the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: Social Settlement. Any new movement which from the first receives
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: unusual approbation and encounters little or no opposition from the
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 1: well to do is liable to become what is termed
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: a fad, and, after running an unnaturally rapid course to
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: dwindle into insignificance. This tendency has been repeatedly illustrated in
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: movements of various sorts. It has been the growth of
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: the social settlement idea in England and America that some
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: thoughtful observers predict that they can discern unmistakable signs of
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: faddism approaching. They argue that the growth of the movement
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: has been abnormal, that a feeling of sentimentality, rather than
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: a deep conviction, actuates the workers of the settlement, that
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 1: the lowest and neediest class of society is not reached,
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: and that the movement will run its course and share
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: the oblivion of other short lived philanthropic efforts. The prediction
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 1: is one worthy of consideration. It cannot be denied that
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: the growth of the movement has been remarkable. This, however,
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  Speaker 1: is not a terrifying symptom, but rather a most encouraging one,
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: inasmuch as we cannot have too much settling of the
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: intelligent class among the ignorant in large cities. Moreover, philanthropic
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 1: effort of every kind is multiplied due to the quickening
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: of the social conscience, a result brought about by the
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: wider diffusion of educationation in the world. The charge of
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: sentimentality rather than conviction, existing among and actuating many settlement workers,
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: is no doubt a just one. But those who come
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: to the work for the purpose of shedding a few
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: tears in some attic or valuably pitying some unfortunate either
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 1: drop out of the work in a short time, tired
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 1: of the too incessant drain on their sympathies and of
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: the genuine work required of residents, or grow into the
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: spirit of the place and become educated to the demands
• 2:41:32
  Speaker 1: made upon them, so that it can hardly be said
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: that the neighborhood or the principle underlying the work of
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 1: the settlement has been permanently injured by the condemned sentimentalist.
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: The charge made against the settlement on the ground that
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 1: it does not meet the needs of the abjectly poor
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 1: and degraded has been mentioned elsewhere in this treatise. The
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 1: charge is undoubtedly true. But society is an organism, and
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: what benefits and uplifts one part of humanity benefits and
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: uplifts the rest through the great power of human contact.
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: They're those who refuse to be directly influenced by the
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: settlement but those who have been touched and benefited give
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: out again in their turn to those next below them
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: what they have themselves received, But their other engraver charges,
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 1: which cannot so easily be brushed aside. The settlement is
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: in danger of becoming crystallized into an institution which shall
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  Speaker 1: dispense charity or education according to certain piously formulated rules.
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  Speaker 1: Settlement activities are becoming so well defined that there is
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  Speaker 1: danger that they will become mechanical and less close. Personal
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  Speaker 1: sympathy between residents and community prevents the introduction of rigid methods. Possibly,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that residents come and go, that the personnel
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  Speaker 1: of a settlement changes frequently, will counteract the tendency to institutionalism.
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  Speaker 1: Another danger confronts the success of the word work of
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  Speaker 1: the social settlement. The workers, feeling themselves to be a
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  Speaker 1: sort of chosen people, sometimes grow clannish and strengthen the
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  Speaker 1: walls of that very social distinction which is the main
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  Speaker 1: object of the settlement to break down. In a recent
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  Speaker 1: symposium upon the settlement question, this danger was discussed by
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  Speaker 1: Miss Starr of Hull House. She voiced the fear held
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  Speaker 1: by many who are interested in the movement that a
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  Speaker 1: sort of settlement cult is growing up, and that before
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  Speaker 1: long it may be necessary to bring into existence a
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  Speaker 1: new movement with a new idea designed to correct and
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  Speaker 1: offset the blunders of the settlement movement, idea and cult.
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  Speaker 1: A feeling among the residents of a settlement that they
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  Speaker 1: are a peculiarly constituted priesthood and divinely ordained in the
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  Speaker 1: division of labor to do what no others can do
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  Speaker 1: will be fatal to the success of the work. As
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  Speaker 1: in all other agencies for good, the settlement makes mistas.
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  Speaker 1: Its workers are not infallible. Its policy is not always
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  Speaker 1: the wisest. At best, it cannot be pronounced a final agency,
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  Speaker 1: for it cannot remedy or wrongs now existing in the
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  Speaker 1: industrial and social world. The government must act where now
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  Speaker 1: the settlement can only indicate. But in the interim it
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  Speaker 1: can bridge the chasm which separates plenty and want. It
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  Speaker 1: can bring wholesome elements into the lives of the poor
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  Speaker 1: and inspire new ideals of life. This is the duty
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  Speaker 1: of the hour, and that duty being fulfilled, it must
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  Speaker 1: follow as the night the day. Governmental aid will be
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  Speaker 1: the result of a quickened social conscience. End of Chapter
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and of the social settlement movement in Chicago by
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  Speaker 1: Josephine Hunt, Raymond