Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggestion which I think has already been partly worked out by W. I. Tibbetts '17. That is, that every effort be made to retain the men at the settlements where they have been engaged during the past year. This will save a great deal of trouble for the social service secretary, and also will greatly help the settlements in getting their work under way for the fall, as that is the hardest time of the year for the head workers...
...this reason, it is also important that all the energies of the social service committee be devoted to enlisting men for work during the first weeks of College, so that they may begin the year when the clubs are organized...
...work last fall I was surprised at the willingness and often eagerness of men to do volunteer social service. It is very evident that what the University needs is not more advertisement of social service work, but more efficient administration. We could have enlisted 600 instead of 300 men before Christmas if we had time to put in four hours each morning interviewing. The social service work here has outgrown the present accommodations. The time is not far distant when a permanent graduate social service secretary will be necessary...
...failure of our men was most efficiently taken care of by the committee of superintendents. Excellent reports were handed in, covering every settlement with which we deal. These reports gave not only the list of men whom we had enlisted at the settlements, but also all others doing social service in any way connected with the University. In most cases a very helpful criticism of the way in which the work of the club was administered was given also...
...work of the social service secretary can be marred or greatly improved by the work of this committee, and I have only one suggestion for improvement on the work of his year's group of superintendents, namely, that each superintendent be made responsible for the entire report from his group of settlements, thus relieving the chairman of an unnecessary amount of work, and also that these reports be handed to the social service secertary on certain specified dates. Perhaps the first of November would be the best date for the first report of the superintendents, as that would give...