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...leading of boys clubs and boy scouts troops, the giving of entertainments and speaking on topics of interest at community and settlement houses, assisting with the probation work of the Cambridge Juvenile Court, and teaching of classes in subjects varying from grammar school to college difficulty are included in the activities of the workers...
There are now, or soon will be, in the Borough of Manhattan, 50 Troops of Boy Scouts without leaders. University men are wanted as Scoutmasters for these boys. The service is neither difficult nor arduous. But it is of the highest possible importance to the city. College men have had opportunities denied to others. They owe something to the community. As Scoutmasters they are asked to give not money but a little of themselves. They can get nearer to the coming American and influence him more directly in this way than in any other. And in so doing they will...
...good for the young man to be constantly reminded of his own worthlessness. But most of it is misdirected; such advice is undoubtedly needed in the case of the man whose sole function in college is to be what the world expects him to be -- a "typical college boy". But this type is becoming a negligible factor in the college of today...
...college we should not need the petty rules which are required of the school boy. For that very reason we should assume as a matter of course the strict and uniform enforcement of the few rules we have. It is hardly to be expected that habits of promptness and obedience will be a part of a Harvard education--and they certainly ought to be when there are courses in which a report may be handed in days after it was due. Such an attitude towards scholastic work is just the opposite of that adopted by men in college activities. There...
...Boy (triumphant): "Hasn't been written yet, here...