Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Phillips Brooks House Association was organized in March, 1904, and includes in its membership the membership of all the religious and philanthropic societies,--the Christian Association, Catholic Club, St. Paul's society, Religious Union and Social--Service Committee, and many other men who believe in the Phillips Brooks House activities in general, but do not wish to commit themselves to the special point of view of any local society. The Association carries on all the general activities, the results of which serve all societies equally...
...most important functions of the Social Service Committee is to provide free entertainments for charitable institutions in Boston and vicinity. These entertainments, necessarily informal in character, are furnished by troupes of students under the direction of a member of the Entertainment Troupe Committee...
...smaller lecture rooms. In the rear, opposite the main entrance, there will be a large philosophical library, and on either side of the vestibule, seminar and department rooms. The second floor will contain the museum, library, study and lecture room of the division of the ethics of the social questions, the psychological library, and two class rooms. On the third floor there will be a psychological lecture room, a storage room, and twenty-two laboratories. Three of the rooms will be finished entirely in black for use in optical experiments...
...first the idea seemed to be to make the Union a great social club, modelled on the private clubs already existing, only more open and non-exclusive. But it was soon discovered that this was not its function; its membership was not sufficiently cohesive the common bond was not strong enough for its size and heterogeneousness. However, we were not satisfied to make the Union a mere meeting place for mass meetings, class smokers, debating clubs, committees and various other bodies. We wished to make it the great "hearth-stone of Harvard," a great centralizing force which should form...
Another innovation was the Junior Dance. This was one of the greatest successes of the year. Great credit is due to the committee which managed the dance so successfully, and showed to what possibilities the Union was open on this side of our social life. This idea has been extended to the Class Day festivities. The Class Day Spread and Dance in the Union is not only a pleasure in itself the Union being particularly adapted for such a function, but it will also greatly relieve the usually overcrowded condition of Memorial Hall and Hemenway Gymnasium on Class...