Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...wish to take this opportunity to clarify the position of the Student Union regarding summers work camps for the youth of America. Our campaign against work camps is in no way directed against the Quaker camps of others similar to them already established on a purely voluntary cooperative basis. These camps have done a real service to America by there rehabilitation work. However, at the present time there is grave danger that the original purpose and nature of these camps may be perverted. There is alarming evidence indicating that the campaign for local voluntary different plan for American students; evidence...
Affiliation of the Harvard Movement, possessing its own camp and projects, with a group like the Quaker or Work Camps for America gained the Widest support. These two organizations, similar in their general construction and purposes, have formed summer work camps throughout the country...
...Quaker program, however, stresses a long working...
...this pattern conform the CCC, the NYA resident centers, the Quaker Summer Camps, Work Camps for America, and sundry other similar experiments. It is in the type of enrollees that the principal difference occurs. The government organizations consist almost exclusively of young people who would otherwise be entirely on the rocks; the private camps have sought to promote "trans-class associations," through which college youth and working-class youth can come to know each other and to have a more real friendship, a deeper awareness of mutual needs and interests. The private camps, too, have tended to be more democratically...
...Harvard there comes, then, an opportunity. The University where William James once taught can pay him tribute, by fostering one of these work-camps and its "moral equivalent of war": raising money to start a venture patterned after the voluntary experiments of the Quaker and Work-Camps for America variety, and enrolling a number of undergraduates in the camp. With the backing of Phillips Brooks House, of the Student Council, and of other groups in the Yard, the project should readily succeed, for it is not a large sum which is needed. Such a camp would be, in the realest...