AP Success - AP US History: Jane Addams and Hull House

The Settlement...is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems...engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city...an attempt to relieve...the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other...most sorely felt in the things that pertain to social and educational privileges...The only thing to be dreaded in the Settlement is that it loses its flexibility, its power of quick adaptation...It must be open to conviction and...ready for experiment...Its residents must be emptied of all conceit of opinion and all self-assertion, and ready to arouse and interpret the public opinion of their neighborhood...They are bound to see the needs of their neighborhood as a whole, to furnish data for legislation, and to use their influence to secure it...residents are pledged to devote themselves to the duties of good citizenship and to the arousing of the social energies which too largely lie dormant in every neighborhood given over to industrialism.