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Title: Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Subjects: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Northern Illinois University
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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A Hull-House Interior. CHAPTER VFirst Days at Hull-House The next January found Miss Starr and myselfin Chicago, searching for a neighborhood in whichwe might put our plans Into execution. In oureagerness to win friends for the new undertaking,we utlHzed every opportunity to set forth themeaning of the settlement as it had been embodiedin Toynbee Hall, although in those days we madeno appeal for money, meaning to start with ourown slender resources. From the very first theplan received courteous attention, and the discus-sion, while often skeptical, was always friendly.Professor Swing wrote a commendatory column inthe Evening Journal, and our early speeches werereported quite out of proportion to their worth.I recall a spirited evening at the home of Mrs.Wilmarth, which was attended by that renownedscholar, Thomas Davidson, and by a young Eng-lishman who was a member of the then new Fabiansociety and to whom a peculiar glamour was at-tached because he had scoured knives all summerin a

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