ABSTRACT
Hull-House is situated in the midst of the sweat-shop district of Chicago, and it was natural that the first effort of the House to procure legislation against an industrial evil should have been directed against the sweating-system. The two original residents of Hull-House are entering upon their sixth year of settlement in the nineteenth ward. The original residents came to Hull-House with a conviction that social intercourse could best express the growing sense of the economic unity of society. A helpful supplement of the College Extension Courses has been the summer school held for three years in the buildings of Rockford College, at Rockford, III. A reading-room in the lower floor of the Hull-House Art Gallery was maintained by the Chicago Public Library Board for three years, with two city librarians in charge. The first residents of Hull-House held strongly to the belief that any compromise in the matter of excellence in art was a mistake.
