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Rumors circulated last spring that an attempt would be made to merge PBH with Education for Action (E4A), a policy unequivocally opposed by both organizations. As a result, some members of E4A were overhasty in juxtaposing PBH, supposedly a "social service" organization, with E4A, an organization dedicated to "social action...
...PBH and E4A do not differ in their goals as much as they do in their style of operation. Their actual differences point up the unique contribution of each organization while emphasizing their common concerns...
...PBH, unlike E4A, sponsors group efforts. Volunteers may approach PBH to work in an already-established group. While E4A does provide a central information clearinghouse, If only funds more intense individual projects: people seeking more facilities than E4A offers are referred to PBH. In the same way, people interested in joining off-campus efforts or in developing programs for individual effort only are sent...
Finally, the two organizations rely on different traditions of organization which have shaped the character of their administrations. PBH has been constituted as a Harvard organization and has the resources and history of a House 72 years old. E4A is a six-year-old Radcliffe organization striving to establish an independent identity. Both serve the University and Cambridge, but their approaches are complementary, not overlapping...
...character of PBH, it is easy to see its strength. The physical and human resources on which it can depend are considerable, Well-established group activities promise more permanent progress than undergraduates working four years at most could achieve alone; at the same time, its readiness to accept new ideas and projects as well as redefinition's of its older committees give it the flexibility to ensure and to grow, PBH may not change the world dramatically. It is learning to make more relish claims both for its programs and for its volunteers; that sort of caution is the best...