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...service workers are needed by Phillips Brooks House. A fairly large number of men are working now, but the philanthropic activities are so comprehensive in scope that more men are desired. The work is for the most part concerned with boys' clubs, but it also includes Americanization work and settlement house entertainments. Last year there were 250 men doing social service work. The Social Service Committee hopes to enlist an even greater number this year...
...entertainment work, including music, sleight-of-hand tricks, story-telling, and so on, are especially desired. About 30 free entertainments will be given at the settlement houses this year...
Through clubs and classes for boys or men, through hikes, musicales, athletic societies, or discussion groups, natural friendly association can be substituted for indifference and suspicion. As volunteer worker for a settlement house or community center, the Boy Scouts, the Juvenile Court or other agency, the student, not through patronage but loyal cooperation, can share in the reduction of misunderstanding and the promotion of orderly and genuine democracy...
...comprising the association. Chief among the philanthropic activities is that of the Social Service Committee, which last year enlisted 250 men in boys club and Americanization work--a record which this year's committee plans to exceed. About 30 free entertainments for poor people will be given at the settlement houses this year, and two collections of old clothes will be held, the proceeds of which will be given to the needy in this country and abroad. Over 700 books have already been loaned this year from the Text Book Loan Library, at a cost of five cents per book...
...volunteer workers are sent out under the direction of the Social Service Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Five hundred men will be needed this year, however, to meet the daily increased requests for workers on the application blanks, which have been sent to most of the settlement houses and boys' clubs in Boston and Cambridge...