Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider that the present social service work for undergraduates is entirely hypocrytical. I know many college men who have taken it up. I know that practically all of them have done so for the modicum of social prestige which they hope to gain. I know that they make themselves and others believe that it is from the highest motives of brotherly love...
...would be better to have no social service work at all than to have it done through such genteel insincerity. Herbert A. Jacobs...
...spite of the fact that much of the first social service in this country was started by students in universities, the value and potential effectiveness of undergraduate volunteers is still questioned. While no one can deny that more harm than good is done by haphazard and lackadaisical humanitarianism, it does not in the least follow that therefore all such impulses should be incontinently stifled...
...very fact of his youth, his mental adaptability, and his considerable leisure time, the university student has a natural equipment for which older and more calloused professional social workers would cheerfully exchange years of actual experience. To a group of boys, the sum total of whose previous experience has been supplied by the sidewalks of a large city, he brings the broadening influence of an entirely novel social point of view. This, coupled with the high, if vague idealism of early manhood, is something which not even inadequate methods and weak sentimentalism can wholly cheapen. That the preservation of this...
...work of the Social Service Committee, being the part of Phillips Brooks House which holds the warmest place in the regard of the University, must be more than a mere process of weeding the sheep from the goats. When this has been done, some hundreds of men, rather less than more, are left who have a sincere interest in the work in which they are about to engage. From the earliest possible moment, this initial interest must be stimulated, sustained, and strengthened, in order that the untried worker may survive the discouragements which are inevitably his first portion...