THE MAIL

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Yesterday's editorial in the CRIMSON sums up, in what seems to me a very fair and analytical way, the faults of Social Service work at Harvard. For some time past those who have been interested in Phillips Brooks House have realized vaguely that neighborhood work has been carried out in a very dilatory and hap-hazard fashion. That this was the fault more of the social worker himself than the officers of Phillips Brooks House, has always been apparent. But this fact, however deplorable, has been smoothed over year after year for fear of hurting the feelings of those in charge of the enterprise.

The CRIMSON has come out at last with a definite analysis of the whole situation, which corroborates the opinions that many of us have held. But here the matter should not end. The CRIMSON has gone about very carefully to determine the weak points of the existing system: let it go ahead to suggest a possible remedy for them. The officers of Phillips Brooks House have never been slow to welcome outside advice, not will they be now. The CRIMSON is best fitted to arrive at the proper solution, and having arrived at it, to announced properly such a fact. There must be some practical way of making Social Service work at Harvard more than the feeble effort which it has been in the past. Organization of the social workers themselves seems to be the keynote of the whole problem. The CRIMSON must carry on a criticism which it has ably undertaken and build plans for a new and better structure. LeBaron R. Barker Jr. '26.