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 3781911Full view - About this book
| John B. Kachuba - Travel - 2010 - 240 pages
...charter, as Addams herself defined it in her book, Twenty Years at Hull-House: "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." The original building in the Hull-House Settlement,... | |
| Louise W. Knight - History - 2008 - 598 pages
...she and Ellen had conceived six years earlier. The purpose of Hull House Association, she wrote, was "to provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to initiate and maintain education and philanthropic enterprises; and to investigate and improve the conditions... | |
| George McKenna - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 454 pages
...studied clarinet there), and staged plays. In its founding statement of purpose it declared its intention "to provide a center for a higher civic and social...maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." But this initial boilerplate,... | |
| Home economics - 1911 - 996 pages
...came upon the lasting object of their experimenting, and thus expressed it later in their charter : " To provide a center for a higher civic and social...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." Not all the Hull House efforts have succeeded. There has been an occasional failure. Early successes... | |
| 1971 - 774 pages
...in Chicago. Immigrants constituted about half of Chicago's population when Hull House was chartered "to provide a center for a higher civic and social...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." The splendid accomplishments of Hull House are modestly revealed by Miss Addams in her Twenty Years... | |
| Kindergarten - 1900 - 698 pages
...Seriously, however, the object of Hull House, as stated in its charter, is concise and to the point. "To provide a center for a higher civic and social...improve the conditions in the industrial districts in Chicago." Another viewpoint is given in this statement of Graham Taylor : "Highly as we may value... | |
| Mormons - 1915 - 946 pages
...incorporated with a board of seven trustees. The object of Hull-House as stated in its charter is as follows : "To provide a center for a higher civic and social...investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial district of Chicago." YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNAL. mians, Canadian-French. Irish firstgeneration Americans,... | |
| Ramananda Chatterjee - Electronic journals - 1922 - 972 pages
...incorporated with a board of trustees. As stated in its charter, the object of Hull-House is as follows : To provide a center for a higher civic and social...philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. There are in Hull-House over fifty "residents",... | |
| Women - 1909 - 498 pages
...stated in its charter, is as follows : " To provide a centre for a higher civic and social life, and to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." The residents last year consisted of nineteen women, who occupy quarters in the original Hull-House... | |
| Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1910 - 738 pages
...stated in its charter, is : "To furnish a center for a higher civic and social life ; to institutle and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises,...conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." The question naturally rises: "What is Hull-House? Is it a school — a club — a religion ?" The... | |
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