Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...interested in undergraduate writing is inclined to ask, why should not the average undergraduate story be better than it usually is? Perhaps the writers do not take the matter quite seriously enough; they are too apt to regard their stories simply as a means to the pleasures of social life on the Board, not as steps toward a more truly literary expression. The works show haste, carelessness, and a willingness to be content with a product far short of that of which they are capable. And may it not also be asked. do those who write about college life endeavor...
...preparation for effective social work will be largely, of course, in general observation and experience. A carefully selected college course is desirable, but there is special knowledge, the winnowed experience of leading social workers, which is requisite. The special schools which under various names have been recently established in London, Liverpool, New York, Chicago, Boston, give a preparation of great value for any form of social service, for those who would be paid officials or volunteers...
...Boston School for Social Workers, maintained by Simmons College and Harvard University, aims to give a bird's-eye view of the whole field; to teach some of the technique of dealing with needy persons and of neighborhood work; and to give an abiding conviction of the interdependence of such technique and the more general methods for neighborhood and civic work. In Harvard University the school is a double course in research in the department of social ethics, and may be taken by regular or by special students. Applicants for admission must show that they will probably profit...
Director of the School for Social Workers...
...administration building is devoted to the business offices of the School, to the Warren Anatomical Museum, and to rooms for the social uses of students and Faculty. To take advantage of these new opportunities for a more congenial student life, and organization has recently been formed, known as the Students' Library Association, whose two-fold object is to equip and maintain a library of current books and periodicals and to act as the centre of the student activity. The membership is open to all students and financial support is dependent on voluntary subscriptions only. The Warren Museum, with a floor...