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...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...
...world waits expectantly for the official denial by Harvard University of the account of an opening of a "hostess house for students" published in yesterday's papers, and its ascription to a corrosive Yale propaganda. According to the dispatches, "one luxury is a candy kitchen where undergraduates can make fudge or taffy." A few years ago a public which took its opinion of Harvard from professional humorists would have found in this statement confirmation of all its suspicions, but football scores of 41 to 0 against Yale prepared the world for the spectacle seen in a war in which Harvard...
Indeed, the hostess house offers first aid to the collegian in several important matters. "Free facilities for pressing clothes" may not be much appreciated on the Gold Coast, which has figured so largely in Harvard legend, but many a student will be gladdened by the news that he need no longer dispose his trousers between the mattresses when he wraps the drapery of his couch about him. Moreover, "wives of the professors will mend clothes and sew on buttons free." Why wives? If daughters of the professors could be drafted for this activity, supported if need be by young society...
...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...