Miss Addams’ address will be found on pages 97–107 of this volume.
Mr. Porter then introduced Mr. Nathaniel B. Crenshaw, who presented the results of an investigation by the Octavia Hill Association into the Housing Problem in Philadelphia. The paper read is printed on pages 109–120 of this volume.
The President of the Academy, in closing the session, said:
In closing the meeting I desire to express to the speakers of the afternoon, as well as to the presiding officer, the sincere thanks of the Academy, and I feel that I am simply giving expression to your feelings when I say that we all go away with new ideas and a new inspiration in the work of bettering social conditions.
Session of Saturday Evening, April 5.
Subject: “Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration; Its Possibilities and Limitations.”
In giving the meeting into the hands of the presiding officer of the evening, Mr. Charles Custis Harrison, the President of the Academy said:
Members of the Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen.
We have much of importance to hear this evening and there is therefore little time for formal introductions. I have the honor of presenting to you, as presiding officer of the evening, Dr. Charles Custis Harrison, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Harrison, in introducing Senator Hanna, said: