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...PBH social service volunteer needs no special talent or particular ability to work with children, according to Byrnes. "His most important qualities are consistency and willingness to spend time with his particular group...
...story of how the Housing Office came to roost in PBH shows how easily a favor can develop into an obligation. Thirteen years ago, members of the service center voluntarily undertook an inspection of living conditions and rental rates in Cambridge apartments, and compiled a list of rooms that met their standards. In 1945, when the University decided to take its own housing office out of Straus Hall, it referred all student househunters to the PBH lists. As the number of apartments and rentors rose, what was a mere listing turned into a minor real estate establishment. Devoted to graduates...
...broadcast the problem. Individual cases rarely pass beyond the student and the landlady. The victims usually have too much pride to complain openly, and the discriminators--who happily are a minority of the rentors--don't talk about it either. The Housing Office in PBH can infer the difficulty from the fact that colored students return for help time after time, while white students rent the same rooms with no difficulty. Discrimination does exist, and it is a blot on Harvard's generally good record of race relations...
...PBH has already sent out post cards to the owners asking whether they have doubles, singles, with or without baths. The card also demanded the rent be within the OPS range, and warned that there will be no discrimination, because we "have boys of all races and religions applying...
Informal judging will also go on at the Orientation dance, held in Agassiz Tuesday night, and at the Phillips Brooks House's Open House on Thursday from 8 to 11 p.m. Finalists will be selected at the PBH Tea Dance, Saturday, from 4 to 6 p.m. The contest is sponsored by the CRIMSON...