UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENTS: THEIR POINT AND DRIFT.

This article presents information on university settlements. As an agency for social improvement, the settlement is a more significant and in its degree a more costly undertaking than is the elaboration of organized charity or of systematic popular education. It is designed to attempt a more difficult and a more serious problem. The submerged type is easily accessible on the basis of necessities. The aristocracy of labor is easily accessible on the basis of its ambitions. There is it great middle class of labor, the working class proper, having the loyalties and passions of the proletariat, in one section of which is the center of industrial unrest, in another the center of corrupt municipal politics. It scorns charity. It is indifferent to offers of advanced education. This class is to be met only upon the basis of some of the commonplace interests of life. Within it one sort or another of social tie is always very strong. Now it is the most marked characteristic of the settlement that it meets persons always in the light of such relations, touching them at the point of family affection, neighborhood camaraderie, industrial and political affiliation, the clannishness of nationality or race religious solidarity.