Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House does its work without display or perhaps even much credit from the University at large. Yet every year over 250 men find in the work it offers such satisfaction that they continue freely and faithfully to offer their services. The very fact that these men come forward voluntarily is sufficient testimony to the value of this sort of "outside interest". Yet the ranks are never quite filled; there is always room for more. Work could readily be found for five hundred, and is always waiting for fifty new recruits...
There is at this season of the year a peculiar opportunity to investigate social service work without exposing one's self to its discomforts. Many men who have been conducting classes are desirous of seeing their charges passed on into good hands. Believing in the work, they wish to impress others with its advantages. They would be only too glad of the chance to show a Freshman what the work really consists of,--what it can do for the boys, and what it means to the leader...
...meet this situation and to act as a sort of clearing house between Harvard men and the numberless agencies now engaged in civic and social work that this Bureau has been planned...
...their communities which they can then embrace or not as they choose. The plan is an essentially practical one and should make a strong appeal to all men about to enter active life. It calls for the co-operation of all younger Harvard men whether actively interested in College social work...
Besides the opportunities offered to college men in the way of hearing well-known religious workers, Northfield presents wonderful opportunities in the way of Bible and mission study, study of social problems, and group conferences as to life work. Not the least valuable of the college man's experiences at Northfield, however, is that of meeting other college men, for Northfield is always attended by large delegations of students from all the more important institutions of learning in the eastern United States and Canada...