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...congregational singing is the unfamiliar, unsuitable and often difficult musical settings. Either the air is rarely heard or, if well known, it hardly seems to fit the unfamiliar stanzas; and in several cases where both music and words are familiar the high-pitched arrangements for the former boy choir are out of range of the average voice...
...number of men are needed to fill positions as leaders of boys' clubs, Boy Scout troupes, teachers of English, and as coaches of dramatic, debating, glee, and athletic clubs. Information may be had from the Social Service Secretary, who is at his desk in Phillips Brooks House mornings from 8 to 10 o'clock on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and from 8 until 11 o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. He will be glad to talk with any men interested...
...Social Service Committee needs a large number of volunteers for Boys' Club work, particularly for Boy Scout Clubs, and also men for teaching English to immigrants. Information about this work may be obtained from the Social Service Secretary, who will be at his desk in Brooks House on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8-11 o'clock, and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 8-10 o'clock...
...astonishingly large development of the Boy Scout Movement within the past three years has made the problem of securing adequate leadership a very engaging one. There is an evident and strong desire on the part of the boys for activities which the Boy Scout Movement furnishes but, unless men of large capacity, who understand and appreciate what scouting means, can see their way clear to give some serious time and attention to it, its development will not be as large as the field merits. A large number of men of character, enthusiasm and ability are needed in Greater Boston...
...grammar school boy lies the burden of proof to show why he should go on to high school, and on the high school boy lies much more heavily the burden of proof to show why he should go on to college. But 90 per cent of the private school boys go to college as a matter of course, whether they are intellectually negligible or not. All they need is an allowance and a passing mark in the entrance examinations. And so, serious and trivial, stupid and bright, they all herd in together. Of course they will not stand as high...