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 THE AMERICAN

JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

VOLUME II MARCH, l8Q7 NUMBERS

A DAY AT HULL HOUSE.

MI montrait sa maison a quiconque avail besoin de quelque chose."

Tin. old house is almost submerged. With its hooded top storv of fanciful brick, and its large flanking of additions to right and left, there remain but the long windows and wide doorway to hint of the aspect that was its own in the long-gone privacy of the estate of which it was an important and hospi- table part in the quiet days before the invasion of crowd and hurrv and competition. The house justly retains the name of its original owner.

These additions are more intrinsic than external growing out of growing needs and therefore present in themselves a kind of rough estimate or history of them. Thus, the most extensive area and the highest wall belong to the Children's Building, on the right flank, the corresponding smaller wing IK -iiiLT used for lecture and class rooms, with dormitory space above. Following again the analogy of need, with the growth of the work came an extension of the commissary and economic bases, so that the coffeehouse, the model bakery and kitchen occupy a generous surface behind the central house, having appropriately above them the constant but not unchct noises of the gymnasium and club rooms for the men.

Tli is can be but a suggestion of locality, for under the us roofs are harbored many variations of effort, placing

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