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" 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. "
The Outlook - Page 378
1911
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Chicago: Its History and Its Builders ...

Josiah Seymour Currey - 1918 - 570 pages
...board of seven trustees, its aims were formally stated in its charter thus: To provide a center for the higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. Both Miss Addams and Miss Starr were church members, but the neighborhood was so full of sensitive,...
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Chicago Social Service Directory

Chicago (Ill.). Department of Public Welfare - Charities - 1918 - 300 pages
...Tel., Monroe 70. Head Resident, Miss Jane Addams. Estab. 1889. Incorp. 1894. To provide a center for higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain...philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. Activities include social investigations, public...
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Social Work in the Light of History

Stuart Alfred Queen - Social service - 1922 - 336 pages
...serviceable thing for Chicago." The Hull House charter states as its object " to provide a center for the higher civic and social life, to institute and maintain...investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial district of Chicago." The third American settlement, known as the College Settlement and located in...
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Literature and Living, Book 3

Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - Readers - 1925 - 748 pages
...those first days we made a beginning toward that object which was afterwards stated in our charter: "To provide a center for a .higher civic and social...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." CLASS ACTIVITIES 1. On a slip of paper write the three opportunities you fixed in mind as you read...
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Vocational Readings

Leverett Samuel Lyon, A. Marie Butler - Occupations - 1927 - 628 pages
...those first days we made a beginning toward that object which was afterwards stated in our charter: "To provide a center for a higher civic and social...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." QUALITIES AND ATTAINMENTS OF THE SUCCESSFUL TEACHER i Here is a list of those qualities and accomplishments...
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Chicago Civic Agencies; a Directory of Associations of Citizens of Chicago ...

1927 - 332 pages
...LaSalle Street, CENtral 2386. Head Resident : Lea D. Taylor. Organized 1894, Incorporated 1895. Objects : To provide a center for a higher civic, and social life, to initiate and maintain religious, educational, and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and...
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Child Health Bulletin, Volumes 4-6

Child care - 1928 - 600 pages
...intercourse that all men feel." " The object of Hull-House, as stated in its charter, is as follows : ' To provide a center for a higher civic and social...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.' Six thousand people come to Hull-House each week during the winter months, either as members of organizations...
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New Outlook, Volume 5

New Thought - 1952 - 1054 pages
...Later, a member of the Hull family gave her the Hull House property. The objectives of Hull House were: "to provide a center for a higher civic and social life, to institute and maintain education and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions of the industrial...
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Power Trips and Other Journeys: Essays in Feminism as Civic Discourse

Jean Bethke Elshtain - Feminism - 1990 - 228 pages
...exploration of her own complex motives, the prose of the Hull House charter sounds remarkably prosaic: "To provide a center for a higher civic and social...philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improv. the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." 27 She and her companions learned quickly...
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The Women of Hull House: A Study in Spirituality, Vocation, and Friendship

Eleanor J. Stebner - Social Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...the settlement had successfully been doing during its five-year history: "To provide a center for the higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain...improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago."1 The first Hull House Board of Trustees was composed of Mary Wilmarth (Vice-President), Allen...
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