Word: civic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hallway of Phillips Brooks House. With the coming of the Freshman dormitories the Freshmen elections will naturally be held among the Freshmen; but Brooks House is the natural place for the Senior elections, so that we may expect this new custom to stand as a precedent. The Alumni Civic Service Committee followed the practice started last year of getting the Seniors to signify at their elections their willingness to assist in community service after graduation. 350 men voted at the elections for class officers, 196 of whom signified an interest in some form of community service, or 56 per cent...
...Daily Princetonian has it that Harvard is yielding to the "shibboleth of commercialized undergraduate activities:" This is due to an unfortunate interpretation of a discussion held at a social service conference in Brooks House some time ago. There Mr. Philip Davis, director of the Civic Service House, Boston, suggested that social service work be credited toward a degree by the Faculty. The proposition was at once voted down by the undergraduates present, and there is no more likelihood of its being entertained here than that the work of managers will be recognized. Entirely aside from the point made...
...National Suffrage Association quite recently, and soon became one of its most active and influential leaders. She has spoken for her cause all over the country and is very prominent in social reform measures in her native state, Kentucky, having for many years held the presidency of the Civic League of Lexington, a non-partisan association of men and women which interests itself in reform legislation. While in this office, she was largely instrumental in obtaining the passage of the compulsory schooling law in Kentucky and also a law providing for the establishment of juvenile courts. She likewise succeeded...
...annual convention of the Intercollegiate Civic League will be held at Columbia University, New York, N. Y., today, and at Washington, D. C., tomorrow. The League, of which President Lowell is an officer, is composed of 64 clubs throughout the country. The Undergraduate Economics Society is sending Homer M. Huggan '16, as a delegate. He will also represent the Speakers' Club and the Political Science Club...
...most important and thoroughly discussed plans was offered by Mr. Philip Davis, director of the Civic Service House, Boston, who suggested that men who do social service work, especially of an educational nature, should receive credit in courses in the University. For instance, men who teach English should be credited by the English Department; men who do general educational work should be given recognition in the Educational Department; and likewise in Social Ethics, in Economics and in Sociology. Mr. Davis declared that the efforts of several hundred Harvard students to better social conditions should not go unrecognized by the Faculty...