Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Camp Liberty Theatre there will be a Keith's Circuit performer once a week. Movies are to be given twice a week at the eleven Y. M. C. A. huts, and besides these, there are five K. of C huts, a Jewish Welfare House and a Hostess House. Suitable buildings are being prepared within the camp are for the use of relatives and guests of the students...
...that is the necessity of giving young men, especially young men away from home, the opportunity of embodying home hospitality and of meeting the right sort of young women. We have been urged by the War Camp Community service to continue for the men out of service the hostess work done for them while in uniform, and have recently received a copy of a letter from Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, urging in the strongest terms that this work be continued. It is therefore evident that it is not merely the desire of a few well-intentioned women that...
...Hostess House, now open to Harvard students at 28 Quincy street, carries out in what has been found to be the most natural and most attractive way this hospitality work. Since Cambridge can no longer be called a war camp community, the last camp having been transferred recently, the Hostess House will no longer come under the sign of the "red circle," but its activities will continue practically the same, and the men taking advantage of what it offers, will be given opportunity to receive home hospitality of various kinds, as they did dur- ing the war: Sunday dinners...
...closing of the Hostess House was seriously considered when the War Camp Community Service found itself unable to continue the activity. But the pressure, brought to bear, against this plan by the men who have been using the house was so great that the resolution to close it was decided to be unjustifiable, and it will continue in its present quarters until the fall, when the committee has been invited to carry on its hostess work in the Union. ANNE HATHAWAY GULICK, Chairman...
...learn with interest that the New York Times has been able to find cause for merriment at the expense of the University by an arraignment of the Hostess House. It is always a pleasure to be able to give others pleasure but in some cases this felicity is tinged with a certain degree of seriousness. We do not pretend to guess to what extent the Times meant its remarks, reprinted below, but the fact remains that such an editorial can go a long way in creating a false impression of Harvard in places beyond the confines of the Yard...