Local Colleges May Increase Social Service

Over 400 new workers may be added to the local social service field as the result of Saturday's intercollegiate conference on volunteer social service at Phillips Brooks House, Johm C. Pttenger '51 of PBH estimated yesterday.

Seventeen New England colleges sent delegates to PBH's all-day session to help build up the volume of college volunteer work. After the sessions the majority of these schools signified their intent to expand their number of social service workers.

Conference Program

The meeting opened with a welcoming address by Graduate Secretary Charles W. Duhig '29, broke up into discussion panels before and after dinner, and reassembled for talks by three speakers.

Dean Sperry of the Divinity School closed the conference with an appeal to the delegates to "recapture the true spirit of self sacrifice" that once pervaded social service work. He also urged Harvard volunteers to make true the desires of some of the thousand underprivileged Boston boys who want to come to Harvard.

At the dinner, speakers Robert Lane, director of the recent Greater Boston Survey and John Kingman '14, president of United Settlements, traded attacks. Lane urged that tax-supported agencies Lane urged that tax-supported houses as the main organ for social service work.

Kingman defended the settlement house as a neighborhood agency better fitted to grapple with family problems and told Lane, "I'm not worried about your survey because I don't expect to see a single provision of it enacted before I die."