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...Classical Conference. "A School boy's Joke in a Greek Inscription," by Professor Lanman. "Coins Illustrative of Byzantine History," by Mr. H. W. Bell. "The Haynes Collection of Classical Antiquities," by Professor Chase, in Harvard...
...broadest features of the work is that of conducting boys clubs. Boston and Cambridge have been divided into six districts, including in all 35 settlement houses, each district supervised by one responsible man. In each settlement house there are about five boys clubs, led by college men. It is the duty of these club leaders to read to the boys, talk to them, teach them games, and generally to lead their meetings. The principle kept in mind is that no boy is born bad nor wants to be bad, and once shown that fair play and manliness is what...
Perhaps the way in which a man may be of the most directly beneficial service in a particular case is in the Juvenile Court work. If a boy on trial for some minor offense is sent to a penitentiary where the influences are not uplifting, the changes are that he will be hardened into an incurable law-breaker. But, on the other hand, if he can be turned over to an intelligent man, sufficiently older than himself to demand respect, and near enough his own age to have mutual understanding, the chances are that he may be straightened...
...object, then, of the Social Service work is to bring into mutually beneficial connection the broad-minded college man and the younger generation of the thickly populated sections of Boston where the scorer classes reside. This connection is not only invaluable to the poorer boy, but also gives to the college man a broad experience that will help him later in life
...meets with difficulties in the business world, is not--we believe--a lack of business training, but a lack of the realization that he is a beginner in the school of the world as much as the Freshman is a beginner in a University. Unlike Kipling's Brushwood Boy when passed from sixth-form leadership of the School to the Army, the man with the A.B. degree has not "sense enough to see that he is in the Lower Third once more...