Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman died. Another grateful recipient of Fish's aid was a woman returning home from the hospital after an operation. When she told Fish that she needed someone to clean her house but couldn't afford to hire help, a parishioner of Good Shepherd, who had a maid to do her own housecleaning, showed up to scrub the floors and wash windows. Fish will undertake any reasonable request: after one tearful teen-ager asked Fish to help explain a poor report card to his father, a sympathetic parent was found to escort the boy home...
Whatever the causes of the reduction in service, it makes very little sense to cut the freshman off entirely, while continuing to play maid to the upperclassmen. Only one year removed from the well-inspected rooms of home or prep-school, the youngest class is the least experienced in "keeping house" and the least likely to take advantage of the self-service offer. Instead of cleaning freshman toilet bowls more frequently--three times a week now, as compared with once a week previously the caretaking services might worry about the piles of debris collecting on the floors...
...most recent cut in service is consistent with the trend in recent years. Services have been steadily reduced since 1942, when a maid visited each student's room every day. More responsibility for keeping rooms neat and clean has gone to the students, who have not always responded with equal efficiency...
...decision will affect only undergraduate Houses and dorms. Tutors and graduate students are served by a separate maid service...
...student in a House during the 1930's received lavish daily maid service (cleaning, room straightening, bed-making) as well as personal service in the dining hall...