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...Cambridge. Harvard Square became a business and social center. The YMCA grow too large for the house and moved to its own quarters. Churches sprang up around the University and formed students groups of their own. By the early '20's, all the religious societies that had operated from PBH were dropped or absorbed by churches. According to a Yale divinity student in 1944 who did an extensive paper on Brooks House, religious interest here was "suffering from arterio-sclerosis...
With the new trend, PBH began to bring the light activity it had held in the background for so long--service to the College and community. The new subway to Boston enabled it to expand its work until today, it sends volunteers to 33 Boston settlement Houses to teach kids how to speak and write, how to play basketball and baseball, how to make wooden bookstands and tin ashtrays for Christmas gifts, and how to have...
...opened even more opportunities. Blood was needed, and PBH has been making and breaking records every year since, topping off all records with this year's total. The Contact Committee, which operated during the war has just revived. Through it, University men in the service are told of other University men in their camp. They can find the addresses of men they knew as students and they can send a friend a letter through PBH which will forward mail to a serviceman anywhere in the world. The committee also notifies Harvard Clubs throughout the country of an ex-student...
...most important, and for all concerned, the most satisfying, of PBH's activities is the work it does with local wails in the settlement houses. Besides the tutoring, parties, coaching, and civilizing, PBH recently began another operation in its healthy-minds-inhealthy-bodies program...
Third-year students from the medical school, part of that school's PBH committee (The Law School has one, too) made up a traveling clinic that tours the settlement houses for periodic check-ups on the kids. The plan was launched in the fall of 1950. By Christmas, the would-be-doctors will have visited 14 settlement houses. The examinations are completely advisory in nature, but so far have disclosed that 30 percent of those examined had something physically wrong with them that needed, and consequently got, the attention of a doctor...