GOOD AND FAITHFUL

The annual report of the Phillips Brooks House, printed elsewhere in this issue of the CRIMSON is the record of more than satisfactory performance of duty. During the past year all extra-curricular activities in Harvard College have felt the numbing hand of scholarship upon them. Clear and undeniable though the advantages of an increased academic vigilance are, the undergraduate can pluck new time for study from only one place--his outside activities. It is only natural that the first interests to suffer are the altruistic, which offer neither glory of the Big-Man-in-His-Class kind, nor any other than the remuneration of experience. Phillips Brooks House is the most important activity of this kind in the University.

Although it has undeniably felt this drain, Phillips Brooks House has yet passed a most creditable year. The Social Service Committee and the Deputation Committee have been, as examination of the report shows, particularly active. Changes in the scope of the latter committee's endeavors have subdued the emphasis formerly placed on Harvard delegations to churches, and given more attention to the preparatory school visits. Such a change is sure to react more directly to the benefit of the college itself.

Whatever the new calls upon his time that lie ahead for the student at Harvard, it will have been sufficient if the Phillips Brooks House is able to continue the service, so fully rendered during the past year, with which its name has become synonymous.