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Hobohemia profiles various impoverished and marginalized groups living in Chicago throughout the 1920s and 1930s, together, these accounts form a social history of the urban USA.Frank Orman Beck is neither overly sympathetic nor critical in his accounts, he efforts to make his evaluations matter-of-factly. That mass poverty, unemployment and social decay were common sights in industrialized Chicago is seldom lamented, it is simply the backdrop...

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Excerpt from A Study of Boys in the Municipal Court of Chicago: With Emphasis Upon Recidivism, a Study Made by the Bureau of Surveys of the Department of Public Welfare, City of ChicagoDr. Beck is to be congratulated upon this splendid contribution of volunteer service to the Department, and I have no doubt but that the value and usefulness of this Study will commend itself to the public and especially to all those interested in the Boy's Cour...

Excerpt from Marching Manward: A Study of the BoyNot many years ago he was a boy himself, and, as Huxley says about the cray fish, one must have been a boy to know just how it feels. Today he finds that Andrew Lang's characterization of Charles Kingsley, a man with a boy's heart, is in a degree true of him self, he is a sort of Peter Pan, a boy at heart who will not grow up. The heart of the boy which has not yet passed out of his life, is, th...

Excerpt from HobohemiaThey are my friends. We met at the time in my life when I desired franker speech and freer relationships with all man ner of men than I then had. Not everything they did was ¿awless in my eyes. Not everything I did was ¿awless to them. But somehow I came early to feel that my life would have been definitely impoverished had I not walked with these travelers on the low road.There is surely no tragedy like living one's year...

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Excerpt from A Study of Boys in the Municipal Court of Chicago: With Emphasis Upon Recidivism, a Study Made by the Bureau of Surveys of the Department of Public Welfare, City of Chicago During the month of July, 1916, at the request of Judges Harry M. Fisher and Harry P. Dolan, of the Boys' Court, and after consultation with Chief Justice Harry Olson, of the Chicago Municipal Court, the Department of Public Welfare undertook a study of habitu...

Excerpt from Marching Manward: A Study of the Boy This is the first age that has a worthy literature upon this important theme. In 1868 a well-known Scottish author wrote, "There are plenty of essays, tracts, pamphlets, stories, poems, remarks, theories, strictures, sneers, and so forth, on the important subject of boys, but not one learned, authentic, entire volume, solely and simply treating of boy." It is different to-day. During the last ...