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SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 309 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS , associations of men and See also:

women of the educated classes who take up See also:residence in the poorer quarters of See also:great cities for the purpose of bringing culture, knowledge, harmless recreation, and especially See also:personal See also:influence to See also:bear upon the poor in See also:order to better and brighten their lives. Practically, the watchword of such settlements is personal service. To See also:Arnold See also:Toynbee (q.v.) may be given the See also:credit of leading the way in this direction, and the See also:Hall which See also:Canon See also:Barnett established (in 1885) to his memory in the See also:east end of See also:London was the first material embodiment of the See also:movement. Since then many settlements of the same or similar nature have sprung up in Great See also:Britain and See also:America, some too on the See also:continent of See also:Europe and some in See also:India and See also:Japan. The sympathies of See also:young men at the See also:universities have been enlisted towards the movement, and an See also:Oxford See also:house, a See also:Cambridge house, and other university See also:missions have been founded in London. There are also many in connexioh, with various religious bodies. The See also:practical spirit is shown in the formation of See also:gilds, camps and institutes. Lads and girls, and even See also:children, are gathered together; efforts being made to organize for them not only educational and religious opportunities, but harmless recreation, while the dwellers in the settlements See also:share in the See also:games and identify themselves most sympathetically with all the recreations. Many of the residents take also a considerable share in the See also:work of See also:local See also:administration. Women's settlements probably are more See also:general in the See also:United States than in Great Britain; but in both countries they carry out a great variety of useful work, providing medical See also:mission dispensaries, See also:district nurses, workrooms for See also:needle-women, hospitals for women and children, &c. See W. See also:Reason, University and Social Settlements (1898) ; S.

Coit, Neighbourhood Guilds (1892) ; G. See also:

Montgomery, Bibliography of See also:College, Social, University and See also:Church Settlements (See also:Boston, 1900).

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