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...trouble with the post-war settlement, according to Buck, was that it gave the Negro too great a measure of political freedom, rather than economic opportunity. "Emancipation was a gift that the Negro could not appreciate," Buck said, "and he had neither the morale of freedom nor the feeling that it should be cherished...
Twenty-six undergraduate volunteers, recruited by the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House, have been working for months teaching classes of young boys in preparation of the famous Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House Science Fair...
...Peabody House, which contains the best scientific equipment of any settlement house in the country, the PBH workers teach classes of about eight boys in an unusually wide variety of subjects, ranging from radio broadcasting to guinea pigs...
...many years the College has carried on numerous activities with the Peabody institution. Several of the Harvard Dramatic Club's productions of the past few seasons have been staged at the Settlement House. In contributing to the House's laboratory equipment the University's professors have shown themselves especially generous...
...present P.B.H. maintains an army of 150 volunteers in the field of settlement house projects. Irving S. Michelman '39, Chairman of the Social Service Committee, announce that the activities at Peabody House are being used as models for all the other PBH classes in Greater Boston...