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Skinny kids and five-by-fives, soot-covered scalawags and rosy-checked cherubs, kids from all the dark reaches of Boston and Cambridge's soapier side have one thing in common if they spend their idle hours in one of the metropolitan area's 44 settlement houses: they like "that Harvard guy" who comes down of an afternoon or evening to show them a good time...
...That Harvard guy" might be any of 220 students in the College who are on this year's record-high roster of the Phillips Brooks House Social Service Committee. Today nearly half of the entire PBH program, manning the settlement houses began inauspiciously before the turn of the century when there was no central agency in the College to correlate scattered social consciences. Religious groups alone recruited contingents--for charitable work in the old Sailor's Home. By the Nineties duplication of effort brought amalgamation in the Student Volunteer Committee, which eventually called itself the Social Service Committee and took...
Beyond the basic attempt to meet settlement-house demand for an endless stream of day-to-day workers, holiday occasions call for gestures to match. Last night was Halloween: PBH whipped up a special corps of 30 men to fan out into key houses and organize celebrations. At the South Boston Boys' Club alone 1500 kids delighted in the old standbys of sawing girls in half, sipping eider, and calling forth taffy apples from a cauldron of goo. This afternoon is the Rutgers game: another squad of 30 leaders will corral a howling 200 anxious to see football played...
...specifications in the PBH letter to settlements concerning the game called for house troupe leaders who are "over 21 or Harvard students." No director would consider this patronizing. It is a recognized fact that the Harvard student is ahead of his age in leadership and responsibility, and for this reason he can command the respect of toughies and professional settlement workers alike. Brooks House President Charles J. Lipton '48 guesses that more than half of the volunteer workers in the average settlement house are Harvard...
...form only part of a program that extends educational, social, and religious facilities to more than 3,000 Episcopalian students in the University. Located at 24 Farwell Place, the Rhinelander Foundation sponsors Tuesday afternoon teas, Sunday morning breakfasts, Sunday morning services, and various sorts of social work in local settlement houses...