Word: students
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much to say that the organization and consequent enlargement of all the philanthropic work at Harvard, which was marked by the formation of the Student Volunteer Committee, is a sign of a new era in university life. In the first place the committee was formed by a conference of all the religious societies here, both Catholic and Protestant,- an unparalleled event, as President Eliot remarked in his speech at the time. But the committee stands for something more than a merging of sectarian interests in a common desire for usefulness. It marks more plainly than ever the fact that selfisness...
...publish this morning a statement of what the Student Volunteer Committee has done in the past year and of what it aims to do. Its office in the University may briefly be summed up in the statement that it provides the opportunity, for the student who feels the impulse, to do good in one way or another in the world about...
...felt in these subjects throughout the University than ever before. The re-organization of the old Harvard Union, the formation of the Wendell Phillips Club,- now the Harvard Forum, and the institution of freshman debating clubs, all are encouraging signs of this increasing interest. But however beneficial these exclusively student organizations may be, it will be of great advantage to have a number of classes in which men can be specially trained in those elements of good public speaking which in the ardor of their club debates they are most inclined to neglect...
...fellow-men which his expected future residence and profession will be likely to call for or favor. No unfamiliarity with charities, no doubt as to his own capacity for such work, no lack of striking qualifications of peculiar talents, no doubt or uncertainty of any kind, need deter any student who feels the impulse that underlies this movement from calling upon the director...
...meet the wishes of those who wish to do practical good, the Student Volunteer Committee was organized. By this committee practical philanthropic work is organized in various branches of human life...