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...enlisted in some form of social work. A large number of these men, about 130, are engaged in teaching foreigners and workingmen and leading boys' clubs in Cambridge; the remainder are working under the settlement houses in Boston. The scope of the work done by these volunteers is very wide, ranging from teaching elementary subjects, such as English, mathematics, and civics, to leading groups of boys who are interested in athletics, music, dramatics or scouting. Many of the workers are engaged in some special form of social service. For example, 13 men are doing Juvenile Court and Associated Charities work...
...Matthews, Stoughton and Thayer) next year should apply for their rooms at once. Groups of any number up to 12 will be accommodated and the larger groups will be given the first choice of suites. The committee allows 24 preferences as to dormitories, entries, etc., so that with this wide latitude given everyone should obtain acceptable rooms...
...budget system for governmental financing; to unify the efforts of defence organizations to secure universal military training and service; to establish women's part in the program for constructive patriotism; to consider the advisability of the league establishing a university extension system on national topics, including a nation-wide lecture program to present in a conservative and impartial manner the questions considered at the Congress...
...wholly so. Frequently the puck would shoot out of a general scrimmage with no one following it and with no particular purpose. There was also a great deal of slashing stick-work, and though on the whole the men passed fairly well, a great many passes were wide or too hard or forward...
What are the causes of this pernicious weakness? Undoubtedly they are in part world-wide, for the decline in the birth-rate among Harvard men is paralleled by a like decline among the upper and middle classes in all civilized nations and especially in America. However, this does not exonerate college men; the guilt rests even more heavily upon those who have had opportunity to see the light...