STUDIES FORSAKEN FOR PHYSICAL TOIL

With the general aim of stimulating students' social beliefs and interests by working and talking with laborers and farm workers, an organization compounded from Harvard, Wellesley, Wheaton, and other New England colleges was formed early in the fall to arrange "weekend work camps" for all members and others who are interested.

Under the leadership of Hugh S. Barbour '42 and Maurice S. Friedman '43, 15 to 20 students of the various colleges travel weekly to some spot where their labors will be of assistance, forget for a while the intellectual college atmosphere in which they have been steeped, and get down to three or four hours of honest toil.

This fall they have confined their philanthropic social experiments to two fields. During the majority of their weekends so far they have worked at the Boxboro Farm, in West Action, at such occupations as logging, chopping wood, and digging ditches. In addition they have volunteered for service at the Cambridge Community Center, where they have done painting and carpentering. The girls do all the cooking for the group.

After their working hours the weekenders gather for informal discussion, singing, and square-dancing.