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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the drive for clothing is coupled a special request for text books, which will be placed in the Text Book Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House. Every year several thousand books are lent at the rate of 10 cents a volume for the year, and many more are required if this important branch of Phillips Brooks House is to flourish. The following organizations will take care of the old clothing collected and distribute it among the poor of their districts: Associated Charities of Cambridge, Associated Charities of Boston, and the Red Cross...
Governor Calvin Coolidge yesterday issued a statement addressed to the University undergraduates thanking them for their services during the recent police strike, and urging them to support the officers of the state in their efforts to enforce law and order now and in the future. The complete text of the statement, given out at the State Capitol, follows...
...Committee, of Boston made a call upon the teachers and administrative officers of the University for their support in the drive. The committee laid emphasis not so much upon the desirability of individual subscription as upon the inspiration which unanimous action in giving would lend to the drive. The text of the letter follows...
...Society gave a reception. and last Wednesday, the big Brooks House Freshman Reception was held. The Social Service Committee is already enlisting men and expects to have 500 men lined up before the year is over. Other activities already in operation or projected are the New Student Committee, the Text Book Loan Library, from which 500 books have already been drawn, the discussion groups, and the clothing and magazine collection...
...interest in the extensive work of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Among the most important on its list of activities are, social service, mainly through boys' clubs, athletic instruction, teaching English to immigrants, and "Americanization"; Reception to Freshmen and new students; "Open House" held on Thanksgiving and Christmas; the Text Book Loan Library; the annual collection of clothing for the poor; and the new Information Bureau...