Word: brookses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House looked over its membership rolls yesterday and announced that this season a total of 550 men are either members or associates.
Biggest of Brooks House's nine operating units is the Social Service Committee, which boasts 245 members and associates who make weekly visits to Boston settlement houses and boys' clubs.
Next in order are the Undergraduate Faculty (tutors) with 129 men, and the Speakers and Entertainers Committee, with 75 men. Other PBH committees this year include the Ticket Agency, the Brooks House Committee (primarily for freshmen), the Library Committee, and the Office Committee.
Today, a week and a half in advance of the Yuletide season, the Social Services Committees of Phillips Brooks House is already making plans to give a Christmas to scores of local youngsters who haven't much reason to believe in a Santa Claus.
The difference between a Brooks House Christmas party and the ordinary social work done by the committee, according to PBH secretary, Charles W. Duhig '29, is largely in the source of the children entertained. Usually parties and instruction groups take place in settlement houses in the poorer districts of Boston...