BROOKS HOUSE STARTS YEAR WITH OPEN HOUSE

With Open House for Freshmen tomorrow as a starter, the Phillips Brooks House is launching its fall program, designed to introduce the Yardlings to each other and to help them learn a little about the University.

The highlight of the Freshman program at Brooks House will be a Harvard-Radcliffe tea, to be hold soon, when the first year Harvard Co-eds will troop to Brooks House, hoping to be invited to some football game later in the season.

Extra-Curricular Meeting

Meanwhile, at a meeting to be held early next week, the Freshmen will have their first taste of extra-curricular activities when they gather in the top of Brooks House to hear the heads of the various organizations, ranging from the CRIMSON to the Lampoon.

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.

The largest committee is the Social Service Committee, which takes care of a great deal of the entertainment for underprivileged children that are tended by thirty settlement houses scattered all over Boston. Every talent that volunteers can show will find an audience among these youths.

Student Faculty Offers Courses

Recently started and successfully maintained is the undergraduate faculty which has been opening up vast opportunities to underprivileged high school students to learn something about college courses. Chairmaned by E. Langdon Burwell '41 and Lawrence Lader '41 the undergraduate family consists of a hundred student volunteers who each tutor a graduate from some high school who because of his financial situation is unable to attend college. Once or twice a week the student meets the volunteer instructor in the latter's college room, shares his notes and books and occasionally attends lectures with him.

Freshman Committee Active

The 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.

Among the other Committees is the Foreign Students Committee which has under way its project of a cooperative house to help foreign students learn to know each other and to meet American fellow students. The house will also be started to help provide for good living quarters at reasonable prices.

Various Committees

The Speakers Committee has charge of distributing volunteer speakers on various matters of interest. The Library Committee has charge of the special loan books. With its activities concentrated in the summer for the most part, the Missions Committee has charge of sending students to Labrador. Then there are also the Handbook Committee and the Information Committee, always ready to answer any questions about the University and about the surrounding towns