To provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. Chicago Seminary Quarterly - Page 621904Full view - About this book
| 1890 - 520 pages
...gradual growths. As defined by the articles of legal incorporation, the purpose of the Settlement is " to provide a center for a higher civic and social...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." The Commons has thus far been distinct among settlements in the continuous residence of families. At... | |
| Chicago theological seminary - 1893 - 1002 pages
...gradual growths. As defined by the articles of legal incorporation, the purpose of the Settlement is "to provide a center for a higher civic and social...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." The Commons has thus far been distinct among settlements in the continuous residence of families. At... | |
| Self-culture - 1899 - 880 pages
...charter, -viz.: <( To provide a centre for a higher civic and social life ; to institute and maintain A ' Work upon these lines must be many-sided and flexible, and a settlement may not become wedded to routine,... | |
| Charles Richmond Henderson - Social settlements - 1899 - 222 pages
...which it is formed is to provide a centre for a higher civic and social life; to initiate and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises; and to...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. ' ' The Commons adds the word " religious." The societies of King's Daughters and similar organizations... | |
| Home economics - 1900 - 436 pages
...are striving, is, by slow degrees, being brought about. That object is tersely stated in the charter: "To provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the... | |
| Christianity and culture - 1901 - 382 pages
...spirit of tolerance and courtesy is easily preserved. The Chicago Commons Association was incorporated "To provide a center for a higher civic and social...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." -Students of sociology In colleges and theological seminaries spend seasons at the settlement in order... | |
| Child welfare - 1905 - 188 pages
...for the articles of incorporation thus : "The object for which it is formed is to provide a center of a higher civic and social life, to initiate and maintain...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." But in the fellowship of its work Chicago Commons is as little of an organization and as much of a... | |
| 1896 - 446 pages
...Association, filed with the Secretary of the State of Illinois, "2. The object for which it Is formed Is to provide a center for a higher civic and social life, to Initiate anil maintain religious, educational and philanthropic enterprises and to investigate and Improve conditions... | |
| Social settlements - 1905 - 158 pages
...Settlements and the New Civic Spirit, Char., 1903. Object of Hull House (as stated in its charter) : To provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the... | |
| Samuel Robertson Winchell - Chicago (Ill.) - 1906 - 260 pages
...others, less extensive in their scope. The chief aim of these settlements is to provide centers for higher civic and social life, to initiate and maintain...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. CEMETERIES There are nearly fifty cemeteries required for burying the dead of Chicago, some of the... | |
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