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...conducting boys clubs. Boston and Cambridge have been divided into six districts, including in all 35 settlement houses, each district supervised by one responsible man. In each settlement house there are about five boys clubs, led by college men. It is the duty of these club leaders to read to the boys, talk to them, teach them games, and generally to lead their meetings. The principle kept in mind is that no boy is born bad nor wants to be bad, and once shown that fair play and manliness is what his respected older brother" wants, he will follow that...
...work is that of the Home Library Committee. From each of the settlement house collections of about 15 books and some magazines are sent to the houses of several boys. These boys distribute the books among the other boys of the immediate neighborhood. When all of them have been read, they are returned and a new group sent out. A college man is assigned to each of these libraries, and has over the books with him, and his friends, and to read to them or amuse them in any way he sees...
Professor I. L. Winter '86, of the Public Speaking Department, will read from Lowell "The Vision of Sir Launfal," in Divinity Chapel at 7.30 o'clock. He will preface the reading with a brief talk on Bible Reading. This reading will be open to all members of the University...
Professor Copeland to Read...
...well and that in choosing and rejecting it is important to be one's self. Mr. Rogers is to be thanked for saying that so well. But the conclusion of the homily will certainly be dangerous doctrine for Freshmen unless it is very carefully read and perhaps even then. It seems to mean that in this strange, new college world the things for which men work unitedly are not worth while, and that the things which men get by keeping apart are valuable. What it does mean, of course, is something quite different; namely, that we are to "prove...