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...canteen, reading and writing room, and hostess house will be opened today by Phillips Brooks House Association at the old Speakers' Club House, 39 Holyoke street, opposite Standish Hall. It will be open to all men in the service, but is intended primarily to serve members of the military and naval units of the University. This extension of the activities of Phillips Brooks House Association has been made in order that the men who live in the Freshman dormitories or on Mt. Auburn street may find it more convenient to avail themselves of the services which are offered...
...canteen and hostess house will be in charge of Mrs. C. B. Gulick, who has so effciently managed the Radio Canteen since its establishment. For the purpose of a canteen the large room which was formerly utilized by the Speakers' Club as a restaurant will be used. A smailer room has been set aside for the use of a hostess; where men can come to arrange for the numerous social appointments which are made for the military and naval men on their free evenings. The former lounging room of the club will be turned into a reading and writing room...
...canteen will open at 8 o'clock every morning and will close at "taps" every night...
...year the work of Phillips Brooks House has taken on a new significance. Where before it was called upon only to meet local need, it has now entered a larger sphere. We need make no mention of the little nut which followed our regiment to Barre, nor of the canteen now maintained for the Cambridge sailors. We need not repeat the praise rendered this house of service for its aid in the Y. M. C. A. campaign, in the Halifax disaster, and in many other war concerns. Its record stands for itself, a memorial to Harvard men and the University...
...these future sailors were to be entertained during their leisure hours. Cambridge had long been branded as a stiffed-back place, where letters of introduction and credentials were indispensable. Many women, and among these were wives of faculty members, immediately proved how false such a generalization was. A canteen was started and has been run ever since near the University Museum, where the Radio men can purchase tobacco, candy and such things on a co-operative basis. Anyone who has had experience in managing a canteen will realize the labor involved in such as undertaking. In addition to this, these...