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...have had under our care for almost a year little 12-year-old boy who was badly burned by fire. During this time he has had repeated rafting of the skin and will still need more, which will necessitate his remaining for some time with...
Social service offers a chance to know men--men in the making. The boy of the street today is the voter of tomorrow. The city councils and state legislatures of the coming generation are more likely to be recruited from the boy gangs of today than from the colleges. A group of adolescent boys, undirected, may become a social menace--lacking respect for chastity, for property, and for law. That same gang under the guidance of a wholesome personality may be rendered law-abiding and constructive, playing an important role in the service of its street or district...
Through clubs and classes for boys or men, through hikes, musicales, athletic societies, or discussion groups, natural friendly association can be substituted for indifference and suspicion. As volunteer worker for a settlement house or community center, the Boy Scouts, the Juvenile Court or other agency, the student, not through patronage but loyal cooperation, can share in the reduction of misunderstanding and the promotion of orderly and genuine democracy...
...will be recalled that in Mr. Dooley's classic description of the interview between the college president and the millionaire, who is desirous of entering his son in the college, the president finally turns to the boy and says in effect: "And now what subjects should you like our learned and accomplished professors to study FOR you? Almost any undergraduate of today could safely be trusted to name certain courses which would have been included in that young man's choice of electives, courses which are much sought after, in spite of attempts to check the student's wayward fancies...
...dear boy, think for yourself, be an American, and don't be a today. Most intelligent people today realize for almost the first time that the cause of Ireland is exactly parallel to that of the American colonies, so that it is hardly possible to talk against one without disloyalty to the other. HELEN TAFF...