Word: social
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...past few years, a campaign of this sort has been made and has netted excellent results. For next fall it is planned to reach more men and to reach them more effectively. Arrangements will be made whereby men will be sent in the evenings to meetings of labor unions, social clubs, and church societies, and during the noon hours into the large factories and packing houses. These men will either speak for five minutes concerning the opportunities of the Union or distribute pamphlets and circulars which describe the Union's work in all its features. To carry out this campaign...
This campaign affords an excellent opportunity for men to help in the "University extension" of which President Lowell has spoken. Men who are interested in public speaking will be given a chance for practical work with audiences which are without exception sympathetic and interested. Men studying social or factory conditions will be given a special field to which they may devote themselves. To all men, both graduates and undergraduates, the Prospect Union, which is a Harvard institution conducted by Harvard men, extends a cordial invitation to help in the work...
...Social Service Committee...
...Social Service Committee has been to increase its usefulness in the University. Early in October pamphlets were issued containing 21 pages of information in regard to social service in Boston and Cambridge, and sent to all men who expressed on their registration cards a willingness to undertake philanthropic work. By this means many men were brought into touch with social service who otherwise would have known nothing of it. The committee has met regularly during the year at informal sessions in the Directors' Room at Memorial Hall. Its activities have been carried on under the direction of A. G. Cable...
...Paul's Society has conducted its usual Wednesday evening meetings in the Noble Room and held monthly corporate communions in Christ Church. It has endeavored constantly also to place churchmen in positions of social service in connection with the Episcopal Churches in Cambridge and Boston. This department of the work has been conducted by M. E. Peabody...