Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Among other enterprises, this committee assigns men to all forms of social service work, in settlements, churches, and other institutions in Boston and surrounding towns. A. E. Wood '06 and A. N. Holcombe '06 are in charge of this department...
...autumn conference in which the leaders in all societies take part, held just before the opening of College; maintains an information bureau for new students; gives an annual reception to Freshmen; canvasses the Freshman class in the interests of all the Brooks House activities and societies and through its Social Service Committee conducts various forms of philanthropic work...
...plans for throwing open the parlor of the House on Sunday afternoons for informal gatherings, with music or reading, in order to promote good comradeship and make the afternoon pleasant for men who stay in Cambridge over Sunday. Other plans under consideration, are a course of lectures dealing with social service from various points of view,--for example, from the point of view of the settlement worker, the economist, the sociologist, etc; and a Phillips Brooks House fellowship in social service, similar in general plan to the South End House Fellowship and the Robert Treat Paine Fellowship administered...
...Social Service Committee...
...undertaking which reached a high degree of development last year is the sending out of "entertainment troupes," made up of volunteer readers, musicians, sleight of hand men, etc., which give entertainments in hospitals, poor houses, and other social institutions. Men who have ability to entertain, who are willing to do this work and have not already registered for it, should send their names to J. L. White '06, Grays...