Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advisory Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association has appointed Howard Frank Root '13, of Ottumwa, Iowa, social service secretary for the year...
Boston Y. M. C. A.--J. H. Coon '14, A. I. Drew '14, L. M. Farrin '15, R. B. Libby '15, A. C. Roberts '10. Cambridge Social Union--S. L. M. Barlow '14, J. C. Bowles '12, N. M. Clark '12, J. A. Cook '13, A. S. Coolidge '15, F. Dazey '14, P. E. Douglass '13, A. W. Hanson '13, G. E. Hubbard '14, C. D. Hurley '12, S. B. Hyde '14, A. C. James sG.B., H. W. Josephs '14, W. C. Koch '13, R. T. Lafferty 1L., E. M. Libbman 1G.B., W. M. McClure 1L., A. R. McCormick...
Progress in every possible direction is the Keynote of the social service report. More students are doing better work than every before; fewer have proved failures. Such a state of facts argues well for undergraduate interest in social betterment work...
...this connection it is interesting to consider the organization of similar enterprises at other colleges. The number of men doing social service work at five representative institutions in respectively; Cornell, 5; Pennsylvania, 100; Princeton, 90; Yale, 350; and Harvard, 360. The small number of social service workers at Cornell and Princeton is, of course, due in some measure to their location. Situated, as they are, in small communities, they lack the opportunities which proximity to populous cities affords...
Secondly, no Harvard men are recorded as being engaged in unpaid summer work. The real advantage of social service work is the experience which it gives to the men engaged as teachers, entertainers, and so forth. The benefit to the men taught is only subordinate. If social service takes hold of the workers so slightly, if they lack that optimistic enthusiasm which stimulates such people as Miss Jane Addams and Mr. Jacob Riis, if they undertake their tasks only with a half-hearted and sentimental enthusiasm, then the result is sure to be obviously lacking in effect. If the social...