There are many boys in Boston who want nothing so badly as the opportunity to play a game of basketball and form a club: a club with its own officers which can plan its own work and amusements. They need only a leader to direct their energies. There are many older boys and young men who are no longer able to attend school, and yet have only begun to learn. They need some one to guide their reading and conduct classes. Then there is that large number of foreigners, many of whom have been here for years and are still foreign. They need to be interested and instructed in our language and customs.

This is a duty which falls most heavily upon college men. Harvard's responsibility for this work in Cambridge and Boston is proportional to her immense resources. Phillips Brooks House is fully acquainted with these needs. It only lacks the men to meet them. Aside from the time given for preparation, such work rarely requires more than one evening a week. While many men feel that their time is too full to crowd into it another activity, the manner in which they meet this appeal from the less fortunate is a fair indication of their future usefulness. Men who have done this work assert to the fact that the value of the experience repays their time many fold.

Today, Phillips Brooks House needs a hundred men for social service.