Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...years, particularly in philanthropic enterprises, the most important of the activities carried on at Phillips Brooks House, which all the societies in the House promote. Until this year there has been an executive committee, existing independently, which has been especially charged with the carrying on of various kinds of social service work. This year the Social Service Committee has coasted to exist as an independent organization and has become a committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Under the auspices of this organization, this year, over 120 men have been put at work in various social settlements, boy's clubs...
...figures above given do not, of course, include the men who have through their own energies found bits of social service work to do, nor do they include the men who are teaching at the Social Union and Prospect Union, although some men have been sent to both these institutions through the agency of Phillips Brooks House. It is easily correct to say that over 300 men have been engaged in some form of philanthropic work this year...
...conference devotes mornings and evenings to consideration and discussion of religious and philanthropic work at various institutions, and leaves the afternoon free for recreation. Each college will organize a baseball nine and a track team: good opportunities will be offered for tennis, golf, canoeing and swimming. The social life is a feature of the conference as receptions will be given by the different, college delegations to one another. Among the men ho will be present from Harvard are: R. S. Wallace 04. A. E. Thayer II., J. M. Groves 05, R. D. Shipman '05, N. Kelly '06, T. B. Dorman...
...Educational Department of the Cambridge Social Union for next year will be in charge of J. S. Stone '05. The various departments will be headed as follows: English, M. Wertheim '06; Languages, F. H. Davis '07; Music, L. Harrison '07; Sciences, A. Leland '07; Business Classes, E. J. Fraser-Campbell '06; Mathematics, S. K. Becker '06; Boys' Club, H. S. Lord...
...Americans, he said, have two distinct and natural advantages; the mental qualities developed by your ancestors' contest with man and taming of nature, as well as the social equality which, in this country, requires the professional man to "kow-two" to no one. You lack neither stimulus nor opportunity; you are radiant with the success of modern materialism. The world is the mining engineer's oyster, to be opened with the weapon of skilled intelligence...