Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Service has gone out of fashion and most undergraduates have to be wheedled into work that was once done ungrudgingly. Harvard men do not take part in Social Service as they once did. Much of the work in the education of boys who play in the streets of Cambridge and Boston goes undone while Harvard students use their time to their own advantage. To this the answer may cynically be, "What...
Just this, Harvard men all over the world are carrying on a tradition of helpfulness in the social problems of the communities they live in. We in Harvard now are letting this tradition go by the board. The facts are that men of College age are the ones on whom the responsibility for giving leadership to the boys of the community falls. It is this responsibility that Harvard undergraduates will not face...
...boys' work in Boston that the employer is looking for. Any one man's education can lack a good many things but it cannot lack some knowledge of the 90 percent of the people of the country who do not go to college. This is the cash value that social service offers...
...need stay out of social service for what he thinks is his lack of qualifications. Any hobby that a man may have or any activity he himself may have taken part in, can usually be turned to advantage in boys' work. Harvard men can as a rule give some of their time to three or four extra curricular activities. In the past, the leading men that the college has had have given their time to some form of social service, because they believed in service and because they recognized the cash value of social service. Gordon Huggins...
...last few years there has been a change in attitude toward social service, a change which a letter in this column today deplores. Realizing that prevention of crime and delinquency, that improvement in standards among the poor, is the surest way of creating social stability, the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters. Agitation for permanent reform, for enlightened democracy has seemed more intelligent than the drops in the bucket of individual slumming. This attitude has been furthered, of course, by the blatant antics of "service" clubs and that business men who have found that...