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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:
Phillips Brooks House has slumbered through another report and still the college believes that Social Service is anything but a silly name. Year after year the student is buoyed up by the hysteria of platform idealism to undertake something for which he has neither time nor interest. Year after year, the high-sounding phrases of early fall fade along towards winter, into the stern reality of a dirty, noisy neighborhood house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then, as others do not know, that the whole shining structure of Social Service is founded on pitiful sham and sheer impracticability. David Worcester '28.
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