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...that, Pegler exploded into print with a far different version of the 1946 settlement. It was Pearson, he sneeringly charged, who had "begged and pleaded" to be permitted to withdraw his (first) suit without trial. To show that he had not given up one bit of his overworked function of calling names, Pegler printed his own "amended answer" to Pearson's complaint in his second suit. Wrote Pegler: "[Pearson] is a habitual, incorrigible, professional liar, as distinguished from an occasional or accidental liar ... Plaintiff is a liar, faker and blackguard from...
There are 127 men in the College working both ends of the teaching game. Every morning they take down notes as students. Then about two nights a week they reverse the process-tutoring settlement house youngsters as members of the Phillips Brooks House Undergraduate Faculty Committee...
About two thirds of the tutees are taught in groups of ten at the settlement houses. "The rest are receiving individual attention either at the agencies or in their own homes," said Oettinger, "though occasionally we have exceptions like the two youngsters in the polio convalescent ward of the Childrens' Hospital we are now teaching...
...tutoring program has been highly praised by the settlement houses as well as by the parents of the youngsters. George Skelly, Director of the Cambridge Community Center, said that "this is the first year we've had the tutors and the plan has far exceeded any expectations ... the tutors here have certainly done a lot to build good will between Harvard and this community...
...difference between a Brooks House Christmas party and the ordinary social work done by the committee, according to PBH secretary, Charles W. Duhig '29, is largely in the source of the children entertained. Usually parties and instruction groups take place in settlement houses in the poorer districts of Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding areas. Because of this, a great number of poor Cambridge gamins, many of whom are children of parents on relief, and who do not belong to one of the settlement houses, go without holiday celebrations...