ABSTRACT
The settlement, through its preservation of several of the fine old houses of the neighborhood, maintains a curious link with what, in a city of rapid changes, is already a shadowy past. Fortunately the district attorney then in office had from time to time invoked the co-operation of the settlement in problems that could not be met by a prosecutor. Formal meetings with parents to consider matters affecting their children are a fixed part of the settlement program, and the problems of adolescence are freely and frankly discussed. Brilliant personalities are attracted to the settlement, but it can use to good purpose the moderate talents and abilities of more ordinary people whose good-will and interest are otherwise apt to be wasted because they find no expression for them. The classes have more definite educational programs, but in the settlement they are interrelated with the clubs and made to harmonize with their purpose.
