Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distributed among ten committees, the work of Phillips Brooks House is coordinated through the President, Langdon B. Gilkey '40, with the help of the Graduate Secretary, Raymond Dennett '36. It is the business of the various committees to distribute the volunteers from the student body, principally from the Freshman class, into the various activities...
...chief interest point for all Fresh- men is their own committee. After some two months of participation in the House's work certain Freshmen are selected by the Chairman of last year's group, Harry Newman '42, and they are given supervision of whatever projects they may wish to inaugurate besides the usual duties of gathering old books and clothes...
...relief from four consecutive days of scrimmage, the Varsity football team yesterday ran through an easy drill with live tackling practice the only contact work. Precision and finesse were the afternoon by-words, as the A and B teams alternated offensively against a dummy defense...
...course, we would be the last--at least among the last--to suggest a policy of loafing, of laissez faire. The Freshman year is without any doubt the hardest of the four, when measured against the experience of the students involved. There will be work, and plenty of it; but the greatest danger is not the work, but the worry arising from it. More Freshmen fail because of fear than because of inability or laziness. That is a categorical statement, but true. And the remedy for fear is the knowledge that for every confused Freshman, 999 others...
...social side of college life will take care of itself. In other words, it is necessarily unplanned, spontaneous. No planning is done by the college; Harvard treats its students as men, assumes that they will act as such. It is good psychology, and it works. No planning is done by other students: there are no prescribed rites for Freshmen, no hazing. And none is done by the individual, as a general rule. Bull sessions make themselves; so do trips to Wellesley, football weekends, spring riots. Even extra-curricular activities of the more serious sort--writing for publications, playing for athletic...