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In an attempt to combat a predicted rise of street gangs in the Central Square-Charles River area, Phillips Brooks House will take part in a pioneer social project.
The neighborhood has deteriorated into a slum over the past decade, Walter F. Donlan '56, Phillips Brooks House supervisor of the project, said, and from all indications will soon see an outbreak of juvenile delinquency.
Under this social program, conceived by William Burns of the Christ Child Settlement House, ten PBH workers will organize local teen-age boys into ten groups of approximately ten boys each. These workers will submit reports to a central committee including clergymen, grammer school principals, YMCA officials, the chief of police, Burns and Donlan. "In organizing these boys we will not attempt a rehabilitation of the whole section," Donlan said. "These groups will test the effectiveness of the plan against delinquency."
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