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Distributed among ten committees, the work of Phillips Brooks House is coordinated through the President, Langdon B. Gilkey '40, with the help of the Graduate Secretary, Raymond Dennett '36. It is the business of the various committees to distribute the volunteers from the student body, principally from the Freshman class, into the various activities...
...largest committee is the Social Service Committee, which takes care of a great deal of the entertainment for underprivileged children that are tended by thirty settlement houses scattered all over Boston. Every talent that volunteers can show will find an audience among these youths...
...Among the other Committees is the Foreign Students Committee which has under way its project of a cooperative house to help foreign students learn to know each other and to meet American fellow students. The house will also be started to help provide for good living quarters at reasonable prices...
...course, we would be the last--at least among the last--to suggest a policy of loafing, of laissez faire. The Freshman year is without any doubt the hardest of the four, when measured against the experience of the students involved. There will be work, and plenty of it; but the greatest danger is not the work, but the worry arising from it. More Freshmen fail because of fear than because of inability or laziness. That is a categorical statement, but true. And the remedy for fear is the knowledge that for every confused Freshman, 999 others...
...Among earlier volumes, published since Munich, the following, although badly out of date in spots, stand out as the most competent...