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...national policy calls for a successful settlement of the China Incident...
...liveliest of the 10 committees and sub-committees that carry on the work of PBH is the Speakers' Committee which sponsored several talks in the West End House last year, along with some 150 others in high schools and settlement houses on subjects ranging from public health (by Med School students) to life in the Orient (by an undergraduate from Japan). Magicians, clowns, musicians, and other entertainers recruited by the Speakers' Committee filled the entertainment side of the ledger...
...provoked easily by youthful antics, and are quick to enforce the rules of the House. Good clothes and a college education are strong elements in prestige. Photography, dramatics, radio, boxing and wrestling, and mechanics are but a few of the many hobbies and fields of instruction taught at the settlement houses by undergraduate social service workers...
Supplementary to the settlement house work is that done by the Undergraduate Faculty, a group of students who volunteer to tutor Boston's high school glads in subjects which will either fit them better for a career or for future college work. Each student professor is responsible for a tutee and instructs his one-man class in his own rooms one night a week. Twelve per cent of the men given instruction by the growing Undergraduate Faculty eventually end up in college, a high figure considering the unfavorable financial position of most...
...students, last year overhauled an estimated 1800 sets of teeth belonging to children whose parents were either too ill-informed or poverty-stricken to send them to a dentist. A similar function was performed by the Medical School Committee, which has established a program of physical exams in the settlement houses and will set up a clinic in Dorcester House this year...