Word: pbh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PBH tutorial program was instituted in 1938 then disintegrated during the war. Last year there were about 60 men tutoring, with this year's turnout being the highest since the war. All the work is done on a charitable basis...
There are a number of tutees who are not struggling with Algebra 1, but who are trying to prepare themselves for college. One of this group was tutored at the North End Union last spring by a PBH man, and entered Radcliffe this fall. This year one of the tutees is a prospective Yardling...
...tutees are high school students. PBH this fall has quite a few Displaced Persons receiving instruction in English. Oettinger also said that he has an unfilled request on file from a group of mothers in East Boston who would like a Harvard tutor to conduct a speech improvement course for mothers...
...Committee has announced that its annual Yuletide festivities for Cambridge waifs will be held at PBH at 3:30. p.m. Friday, December 16. As yet no one has been selected to play Santa, but the Committee anticipates little trouble in finding the right man for the job and less trouble getting volunteers...
...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, Cambridge, and surrounding areas. Because of this, a great number of poor Cambridge gamins, many of whom are children of parents on relief, and who do not belong to one of the settlement houses, go without holiday celebrations...