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To the Editors of the Crimson:

The Student Volunteer Committee has just been entirely reorganized with a view toward making it a more efficient working body and giving it a more definite constitution. As it was sometimes confused with the intercollegiate student volunteer movement, with which it has no connection, its name has been changed to the "Harvard Social Service Committee." Its general purpose is to be essentially the same as in the past, namely, to stimulate and guide voluntary charitable work among the students. It is hoped that it may become more and more the radiating centre for all this class of activities, both by being representative of the religious societies and of all men outside of these societies who are engaged in any social aid work, and by thus giving these various elements the opportunity to join forces whenever their purpose is a common one other than religious. Mr. Birtwell, the Director, it is hoped, will continue to hold his personal conferences next year with men who wish to enter the work and be assigned some specific duty. But there will also be a student assistant director who will hold regular office hours probably three times a week, and whom men can then consult regarding any matter that touches this kind of work. Professor Ropes will be the honorary chairman of the committee; but an active chairman will be elected from among the student members.

More specifically, the work of the committee includes two annual collections of old clothes; the arrangement of general conferences in Brooks Parlor of all men interested in Boys' Club work, friendly visiting, and so forth; the forming of groups of men, who by playing or reciting can entertain the inmates of almshouses and similar institutions. Early next year the work will be still more exactly outlined and a calendar published. Much of the work done by the committee, especially through the agency of Mr. Birtwell, is of such a nature that it can be known only by those who have been immediately helped by it. But it will be the aim of the committee hereafter to stand before the University as a more definite and compact body, with precise aims and duties to which it will try to do full justice. For the Committee,   E. C. STERN, Chairman.