SUMMONED by Harvard's Phillips Brooks House
Association, delegates from eleven large eastern
colleges recently attended a two-day community
service conference, laid the groundwork for a nation-wide
collegiate organization to study and handle community
social service problems. Since every college invited was
already engaged to some degree in social service work,
emphasis was placed upon new ideas and approaches
ideas which the sponsors of the conference feel will be of
wide-spread interest to other colleges.
Speakers and discussion leaders pointed out that com
munity service, if properly organized and administered,
can be "an excellent bridge over which American ideals
and democratic understanding can pass to the youth of to
day". Purpose of the conference, and of the projected na
tional organization, is to awaken collegians to the fact that
they must be instrumental in building and maintaining that
bridge.
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Keynote speech of the conference was_
Dinner in Eliot House followed registration. Harry After dinner Harvardman Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., addresses the stu- made next morning by Raymond Den-
Newman of Harvard, right, concentrates on an un- dents. Looking comfortable after a filling dinner are George Haines of nett, Graduate Secretary of Phillips
touched dish of ice cream. Yale, Elizabeth Merrick of Radcliffe, and Fred Godley, Yale. • Brooks House;
Delegates were amazed at the work being done in set
tlement houses which they visited for first-hand infor
mation. .
Wellesley and M. I. T. forgot business for a moment be- Arthur T. Lyman, Commissioner of Correction in Afternoon tea brought a discussion of plans for the exten
fore the final luncheon, and talked over mutual bits of Massachusetts, tells a few anecdotes at the luncheon.. sion of community service agencies to all colleges suitably
news. Left to right are Martha Lydecker, Mary Atlee His audience was highly _entertained, _though they located for the work.
and Sidney Atlas. don't look it here.
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Marjorie Thaxter of Smith College registers with Stan L. Optner of Harvard as the Vassar contingent wait
their turn. Left to right they are Sally Lawson, Frederica Berger, and Rosemary Cody.
At round table discussions each college explained Jane Devonshire of Barnard, Wendell Davis of M.1.T., and
the circumstances and background in which they Roger Schafer and Thomas Quimby of Harvard exchange a
operated their system. Everyone took notes. few ideas during an informal discussion.