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Social service in the poorer sections of Cambridge is now being conducted by Christ Church, under the supervision of Mr. Peyton Short...
This new Brooks House project has been aptly christened the "Student Faculty," as students who are seriously interested in their work will be invited to pair off with high school graduates living in the poorer districts of Boston, and they will go over reading and lecture notes together in any course that may be of mutual interest. By this method the undergraduate will be forced to clarify his course in his own mind, while the student may obtain an education that he would otherwise have no means of getting...
...Social Service committee, headed by Sheldon Ware '38, is doing increasingly important work in the poorer districts of Boston. The traditionally patronizing air which the college men used to have when doing social service has been done away with and in its place a real interest has been stimulated. In the not so distant past the security of their own future insulated their minds to any relative application of the distress encountered to their own lives and position in society. Direct contact with the results of unemployment, insecurity, and poverty has brought today greater realizations of their importance and position...
...service. Shortly after midnight the bantering, toasting diners heard the sudden scream of sirens. They knew they were about to be raided from the air, but decided to stick it out. Through the moonlit sky roared a squad of Japanese bombers, plunked incendiary bombs on the capital's poorer districts. Three times they returned, until the more congested quarters of the city were in flames. One hundred and fifty coolies, trapped in squalid mud huts, were burned alive...
TIME, May 17, p. 22 under Great Britain, "Poorer sections made decorations from previous celebrations...