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When recruiting for social service workers the Phillips Brooks House calls attention to the fact that we owe a certain amount of service to the community in which we are temporarily living; that if we want to make good citizens out of the boys of the slums we must keep them off the street. These are good arguments when applied to Roxbury--they would be even more effective when applied to the ragamuffins of the Square...
There are many tradesmen about the Square who can persuade all the students to pay something of what they owe, and even some to pay all that they owe; but there is only one man who, during the last thirty-four years, has induced all of his debtors to pay all of their debts. That man is Charles F. Mason, Bursar of the University. Now comes his resignation after a long period of service during which his name has been impressed upon many generations of Harvard men. To us he, like the poor has appeared to be always with...
...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 help themselves...
...upon which we base our pride in Harvard if we continue to think so lightly and remain in such profound ignorance as wt do now of the universities of the West. Unless we try to understand their efforts and problems we will fall equally in the service which we owe to the nation...
Read over the list of speakers and then tell me if I am not warranted in asking whether the suthorities of a college to which I owe much and to which I have hoped to send my boy indorsed these ultra-radicals by by officially offering them a forum and encouraging them in their propaganda. C. H. HOLMES '94, in N. Y. Tribune...