SOCIAL SERVICE WORK.

The activities of Phillips Brooks House do not attract great attention from the undergraduates that are not actually engaged in the work. This is unfortunate and is largely so because it is not members of the University with whom those engaged in charity work are most nearly concerned. The efforts of students in this direction do, however, accomplish great good in Cambridge and various parts of Boston. Such work cannot fail, moreover, to have its effect in augmenting the dignity and favor which the University commands among people who can do much to annoy and disturb the undergraduates at all hours of the day and night.

Although this charitable work does not receive due recognition, the fact that 272 men have each been engaged in it for a considerable period of time shows that the undergraduate body as a whole lends support to the movement. When this number is looked at without comparison it appears large, but, if it is considered in connection with the student body as a whole, it is remarkably small. With over 4000 graduate and undergraduate students in the University, it seems rather, thoughtless and selfish that scarcely more than one-fifteenth should be willing to devote an hour or two a week to work which does so much unquestionable good.