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...problem of raising the standard of the social service work of the University was the subject of an informal conference held last night in the Living Room of Phillips Brooks House between undergraduate workers and various heads of Boston settlement houses...
...gist of his remarks was that M. Herriot had achieved much in coming to a reparations settlement with Germany and that he should feel great satisfaction therein. The President went on to say that he had read with sympathy the view expressed in the newspapers that the Premier's financial difficulties were inherited and not of his own making...
...registering and distributing men who indicate their willingness to engage in philanthropic activities, the committee performs its work with the success that usually attends any operation of purely routine mechanics. Once the volunteer has been presented to the settlement house, however, he ceases to be of interest. He is given no idea of the problems he may expect to meet, and when he fails, as he frequently does from lack of experience or discouragement, not the slightest attempt is made to readjust him or to sustain his flagging enthusiasm. The Social Service Committee acts as a mere clearing station...
Greetings Sir--In glancing casually through our files, we chanced to read your name in connection with a triviality of $900. The discovery was amazing, a sheer piece of luck, which we wish you to share. Nothing could be more painful to the management than that non-settlement of this peccadillo, this bagatelle, this merest nothing, should prey upon your conscience. We assure you, therefore, it is absolutely payable immediately. A check for this drollery will close your most desirable account, and we insist on this lest its postponement give you anxiety. Solicitously yours...
...University's philanthropies. Unconsciously proving that, though figures do not lie, liars will figure, they have assumed that because four hundred men in September indicate their willingness to do social work, the same four hundred are still faithfully at their task in May which as many a settlement house head knows to his cost is a theory absolutely unsupported by known facts. In insisting on quality at the sacrifice of quantity, the Social Service secretary has done that for which the present generation of professional workers, who have long waged their polite struggle against the dilettantism of college volunteers, will...