Phillips Brooks House Reports Show Increasing Interest and Activity on the Part of Harvard Student Workers

"The House of the Interpreter" is what Dean Sperry termed Phillips Brooks House in his talk to the graduate students gathered at the annual reception in October. He well interpreted the aim of the Graduate Schools Society. Its entire program of activities is arranged to meet the various needs and desires of graduate students at Harvard. Little opportunity for any social life together is possible for graduate students. The Graduates Schools Society attempts partially to meet this need.

On October 4, over four hundred students gathered at the annual reception and listened to talks by Deans Pound, Sperry, and Moore, as well as music by members of the Harvard Glee Club, Several men at the reception signed up for discussion groups, social service work, and other activities, all of which have given the men a chance to get together. The result was that about one hundred graduate students have worked in social service and served as speakers in the vicinity. Several Saturday afternoon hikes have been held.

Four discussion groups met for some weeks. During the fall a Social Problems group meet weekly with F. P. Taft E. T. S. as Chairman. A group on Economic problems. E. M. Winslow 1G., Chairman held five meetings during the fall. Three of them were led by Professors Carrer, M. T. Copeland, and Walker. The average attendance at these meetings was twenty. An interesting group. The Quarter Century, continued on this year as last with T. E. Terrill 2G, as chairman. The four topics discussed by this group were of timely import, the problems facing the turn of the second quarter of the twentieth century.

Radcliffe Joins in Dances

Two dances were given with the co-operation of the Radcliffe Graduate School Society, one in the fall and one in the spring, each attended by about 250 students. They proved very helpful in providing a comman meeting ground for the Graduate Students of Radcliffe and Harvard.

The Lecture Course in Religion had found a real place at Harvard. Most of the lectures were well attended, the average attendance at the eleven lectures being 167. The first six were designed to help men better to understand the part of organized religion in the world today, and the last five touched, more intimately on the religious problems and perplexities faced by the individual. The lectures were as follows: The first half: Prof. R. C. Cabot, "The Need of Religion"; Rev. A. F. Hickey, "Roman Catholocism"; Rabbi S. S. Wise, Judaism"; Dean W. L. Sperry, "Protestantism"; Dr. H. S. Fosdick, "The Future of the Church." The second half: Dr. Frederick Palmer, "Is Immortality Necessary?"; Prof. J. H. Woods, "Philosophy of Religion"; Prof J. B. Pratt, "Faith and Workship"; Prof. F. G. Peabody, "Social Teachings of Jesus"; and Prof D. C. Macintosh, "Christian Faith and the Historic Jesus.

Some of the lectures given during the last two years have just been published by Scribner's under the title of "Religion and Modern Life", with an introductory note written by Dean Briggs. The book is dedicated to the memory of Arthur Beane '11, former Graduate Secretary.

The work of the year was only possible through the interest and cooperation of the executive committee of the Graduate Schools Society which is as follows; T. E. Terrill 2G., F. P. Taft E.T.S., E. M. Winslow 1G., J. C. King 1G., W. J. McCurdy 1G, G. I. Rohrbough 3G., F. C. Lawrence s.T.S., H. E. Carey gr.L., W. C. Hicks s.T.S., and C. W. Lowry 1G