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hundred young people each year. Paupers are 

 seldom, if ever, found among those who have 

 studied there. A number of Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge students live and work in the University 

 and Public School Settlements and the Mansfield 

 House, East and South London. There young 

 men from the universities go, not technically to 

 be missionaries, though in a missionary spirit, but 

 to improve the conditions of life at Whitechapel. 

 Toynbee Hall, the Oxford House, Mansfield 

 House in the East, and Browning Hall in the 

 South, — the worst districts of London, — show 

 what certain individuals are doing to solve the 

 problem of pauperism. They live among the peo- 

 ple, go among them, and try to elevate their local 

 affairs. They are on the poor-boards and the 

 school-boards; — the head of Mansfield House is 

 an alderman; — they assist the police in the sup- 

 pression of vice, and the like, and thus are them- 

 selves trained for larger and better work in the 

 future. What these young men and women 

 are doing in England is being done by others 

 equally consecrated in this country, in Andover 

 House, Boston; in Hull House, Chicago; in the 

 Whittier House, Jersey City; in the University 

 and College Settlements in New York and in 

 many other cities. 



