Education: Unsavoury

Parental eyebrows went up, concern was felt, when a committee, composed of faculty and undergraduate members of six universities and colleges in greater Boston, published a report on living conditions in the students' area of Back Bay. Said the investigators:

"It is a well-known fact . . . that the living conditions are far from what the faculties of the schools and parents of the students would have them if they were aware. . . .

"Young men and young women are, through force of circumstances, living with less protection from moral temptation...

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