Since no club can enter the house without a leader, this group felt and appeared inferior to the others. The result was that the group wrecked one of the house's buses.

To discover the reasons for the damage, as well as the culprits, and to secure some reparations, Miss Taylor and other leaders held a summit conference of sorts with all the clubs in this particular settlement house. By threatening to withdraw undergraduate leaders from all the clubs, the PBH group brought pressure from the entire group to bear on the delinquents.

The culprits declared themselves and worked to repay $75 of the damages. They did not wish to add to their initial sense of unpopularity the knowledge that they had deprived all the clubs of their undergraduate leaders.

Part of the work in the neighborhood houses is an attempt to draw the parents into the settlement houses and to encourage them to rehabilitate themselves. Often, too, PBH workers visit homes in these neighborhoods on journeys of both research and remedy.

Some of the children's programs in themselves produce small armies from the metropolitan area. Over 1,200 youngsters, for example, in late April each year, descend on the University for PBH Kids' Day.

Despite the great effect of PBH on Cambridge, Miss Taylor explained, there are still several areas where it can improve the nature and efficiency of its programs. Since social work is relatively new (70 or 80 years), professional social workers tend to be jealous of the success of their amateur counterparts. To minimize this resentment and open the way for increased amateur participation, Miss Taylor hopes in some way "to make the professionals we work with more aware of our ability."

In the more professional academic approach to the community, a few courses in the Department of Social Relations use Cambridge as a vehicle or model for research. A prime example of such a course was Soc Rel 184, The Social Psychology of Crime.

An assistant in the course, The Rev. Juan Cortes, S.J., explained that he and his colleagues paid Cambridge delinquents to come in from one to five times a week to discuss anything they chose. Cortes emphasized that he and his students tried to discourage any idea of a doctor-patient relationship with the interviewed youths--who happen to be among the city's worst offenders.

Mutual Profit

Both sides profited from the discussions. The researchers and students obtained their information and, Cortes said, the subjects gained a more thorough understanding of themselves. Although Cortes would favor more use of the community as a vehicle for course work, he predicted no increase in the practice in the near future, due to the absence of several professors. "Nobody at Harvard is interested in working with delinquents," Cortes said.

Robert W. White, chairman of the Department of Social Relations, Suggested, however, that student penetration into the city for research and course work was necessarily small. "Work has to be limited and carefully supervised, because Cambridge citizens don't want people streaming in on them at all hours," White said.

"There is always a certain number of phone calls that come in whenever one of these projects is launched. There is just enough of an element of distrust of roving scholars that we must use a certain care and keep the inquiry in terms the community can understand," he declared.

Of course, anyone familiar with the Square area will realize that around here "students streaming in" may easily result in a riot. However, as the Administration might benefit from a closer political relationship to the city, students and professors alike might benefit from observation and practice in so varied a locality.

The academics might see their theories come to life, or fail during a more conclusive test than the research rooms provide. Students would find their educational experience broadened with an understanding of their neighbors in Cambridge "real life." For Mid-western or Western students, Harvard might become more rewarding (or, indeed, more unbearable) with increased interest in and contact with the life of the communtiy. Moreover, better student-citizen understanding filters to the higher-ups on both sides--where mutual understanding is essential.

The city of Cambridge has in fact a certain admiration for Harvard, particularly for some of its extracurricular organizations. Surprisingly enough, one of the more popular is the Harvard Band.