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wrote, "Dear Friend, I find I have contributed in the naborhood of $ 20,000 to
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How would you spend four hours every evening, every week with no money? Read, study, listen to the radio? Well the radio might have one tube or none at all, and there might be so many noisy younger children in the few rooms you called "home" that you couldn't hear you own thoughts... "What would I
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in the late 1910s and the creation of the Morgan
Memorial House to accommodate this. While the guests of the Kingsley House had come from industrial backgrounds, many of the guests of Morgan Memorial House were experiencing for the first time the life and ways of a city. Thus, the Morgan Memorial
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that otherwise would not be able to afford it. Hodges himself described the
Kingsley House as existing, "for the purpose of being a friend to everybody in the neighborhood who needs a friend." He was referring to the Kingsley House existing just as a friend does, as a source of
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do?" Frank answers the question which a companion had asked of
Kingsley House. "You mean if Kingsley House weren’t here to go to? Just what I did – till I got interested in club and basketball – hang around pool-rooms or 'sneak a movie,' or worse stuff than that."
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to act as an extension of the
Kingsley House while also getting children away from the city and to experience something other than what they had been used to all of their lives. Another change came with the influx of
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were more emphasized compared to the other parts of the
Kingsley Association. The purpose of the Kingsley Association cannot be restrained to one definition and as it has increased in size and Pittsburgh's
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class had an average attendance of thirty girls beginning in
January. Other clubs included the "Kingsley House Literary Society", a "City Government Club", and a "Reading Club". A
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Pittsburgh settlement house. According to an article written in 1894, Hodges had come to Pittsburgh under the auspices of the Church club. In Cambridge he had served as the
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present as well. A major shift from these ethnic groups occurred in 1919. The businesses in major cities had been experiencing a
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House tended to concentrate its classes and activities more along the lines of adapting these children to city life. Lifting and
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conducted a survey of the area surrounding the Kingsley Association and recommended that it relocate its settlement house to
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could find a good education for their children. The school also served as a place for children to meet and
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