Phillips Brooks House Offers Oportunity For Volunteer Work in Social Sciences

Phillips Brooks House is probably the greatest mystery and the least understood organization in the Yard. To the three hundred undergraduates who take part in it each year, it is a community service organization providing opportunities in everything from directing educational radio programs to leading a boys' club in a Charlestown settlement house.

Best known for its large and active social service committee which supplies volunteer workers for the Boston settlements, Phillips Brooks House also has an undergraduate faculty which tutors people financially unable to continue with their education. There is a speakers' committee which furnishes lecturers for every subject and occasion; there is an Information Committee which investigates housing conditions for graduate students.

Freshmen May Participate

Freshmen desiring to take part in PBH activities have two openings. They may sign up for work with any one of the nine undergraduate committees, or they may compete for a position on the Freshman Committee which is made up in the middle part of November.

The Freshman Committee is represented on the Cabinet, the governing body of Phillips Brooks House, and has a program of its own, distributing clothing and food to needy families at Thanksgiving and Christmas, putting on teas with Radcliffe Freshmen and throwing a ten dance the Jubliee wook end. In the past they have also carried on in vestigation of anything they didn't Illu such as the Freshman election system and the Student Connel's handling of Freshman affairs.

One of the important innovations in the PBH program for this year is a vocational guidance service. It is expected that this will prove invaluable to many an undergraduate who has not yet made up his mind what he wants to do, and also who is ignorant of the great variety of vocational opportunities.

There is no one reason for choosing Phillips Brooks House work as an extra curricular activity. The organization has need for practically every type of talent, and gives the student a chance to see some concrete instances of the theories heard in the class rooms of government, economics, and sociology.