Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism which merely demolishes the object of its attention is neither convincing nor constructive, the following plan for a vigorous Social Service Bureau may serve as a fitting last chapter to the destructive analysis that has lately appeared in these columns...
...three Junior members will elect one of their number to serve as Secretary for the following year. The remaining two will then become the Senior members, and will elect three more new Juniors. The new members will be chosen from the ranks on those men who have engaged in social work during their Freshman and Sophomore years, and who are also, if possible, men of proved ability in other fields This machinery provides for a self-perpetuating. Executive Board of experienced workers...
With an adequate organization suggested for the proposed Bureau, the discussion turns to a question of method and procedure. It will be the duty of the Secretary to list all those who in their registration cards offer themselves for social work and to apportion them to the five members of the Executive Board. Within the first month of the college year, a widely advertised open meeting of volunteers will be held, addressed by the highest and most stimulating authorities on social work which it is within the power of the Bureau to invite. After this meeting the members...
This plan for a general reorganization of undergraduate social service is intended to remedy several detects in the prevailing system. First the internal composition of the Bureau prevents the break in continuity which at present takes place between the work of one year and that of the next. Second the increased personal supervision and the provision for readjustments guarantee a maximum of efficient service to the institutions to which men are sent. Third, the greater attention to the conduct of the opening meeting and the preparation of volunteers make an effort to utilize adequately the enthusiastic idealism that...
Yesterday's editorial in the CRIMSON sums up, in what seems to me a very fair and analytical way, the faults of Social Service work at Harvard. For some time past those who have been interested in Phillips Brooks House have realized vaguely that neighborhood work has been carried out in a very dilatory and hap-hazard fashion. That this was the fault more of the social worker himself than the officers of Phillips Brooks House, has always been apparent. But this fact, however deplorable, has been smoothed over year after year for fear of hurting the feelings of those...