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...contributed materially to the community's welfare and to the community's respect for the University. But there have been perrennial defects impairing the efficiency and scope of the enterprise. One of the major defects now seems possible of solution for the first time, with the advent of NYA aid at Harvard...
...time and effort. A crowded schedule keeps him from spending more than a couple of hours a week in the settlement houses, which are understaffed and do not have anyone to train neophytes in social service. What PBH wants specifically, is thirty-nine contact men, paid by NYA funds and working from twenty to forty hours a month in thirty-nine Greater Boston settlement houses, boys' clubs, and Y.M.C.A.'s. These men, who would be College undergraduates carefully chosen after competition, would coordinate PBH with the social service agencies, directing volunteer enthusiasm into the proper channels, answering questions, building interest...
Backers of the movement for Faculty approval of the NYA at Harvard decided in a meeting last night to sever their connections with the HSU and all other committees, in an effort to make the issue purely one of the NYA's merits...
...NYA information pamphlets say that the work provided is designed to help the student continue "properly" his education. Thus it might enable Eli to "go home at Christmas time or to buy much-needed new clothes." If Eli is a commuter, the extra money might enable him to "join Dudley Hall (where he can meet fellow students and relax) instead of having to eat his lunch out of a paper bag in Boyiston Reading Room...
Administration would involve the same problems generally as does the T.S.E., it was asserted, and therefore both programs could be managed from the present T.S.E, office. Expense could be reduced to a minimum by employing the administrative assistants themselves on NYA funds, which was done successfully at Tufts College...