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| Jane Addams 1860-1935 |
A belated Happy Birthday, Miss Addams (September 6, 1860)!
"Life in the Settlement discovers above all what has been called 'the extraordinary pliability of human nature,' and it seems impossible to set any bounds to the moral capabilities which might unfold under ideal civic and educational conditions. But in order to obtain these conditions, the Settlement recognizes the need of coöperation, both with the radical and the conservative, and from the very nature of the case the Settlement cannot limit its friends to any one political party or economic school.
"The Settlement casts side none of those things which cultivated men have come to consider reasonable and goodly, but it insists that those belong as well to that great body of people who, because of toilsome and underpaid labor, are unable to procure them for themselves. Added to this is a profound conviction that the common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it, that those 'best results of civilization' upon which depend the finer and freer aspects of living must be incorporated into our common life and have free mobility through all elements of society if we would have our democracy endure.
"The educational activities of a Settlement, as well its philanthropic, civic, and social undertakings, are but differing manifestations of the attempt to socialize democracy, as is the very existence of the Settlement itself."
From: Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
Some evening clubs and classes held at Hull House — January 1895
Arithmetic
Beginning Latin
Chemistry
Cloak Makers' Union (women)
Club Lectures
Dancing Class
English and Letter Writing
Geometry
Gymnastics (men)
Gymnastics (women)
Italian Class
Italian Reception
Italo-American Club
Jolly Boys' Club
Mandolin Club
Parliamentary Law
Physics
Singing
Social Science Club
Young Citizens
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