Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lessons we have learned through the war, one has been very deeply impressed on the world at large, and 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...
...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...
Each case will be considered individually and reasonable elasticity will be employed in the cases of candidates for a "War Degree" who, not having been away the prescribed time, now find it impossible to remain at College for the completion of the regular course...
Tomorrow night the Class of 1919 will hold a Smoker in the Union, the first social gathering of the Senior Class since the war. H. C. Flower, C. A. Clarke, Jr., F. W. Whitman, A. Stevens and W. W. McLeod will speak, and the usual motion pictures, refreshments and music are on the program. The moving pictures will consist of a Mack Sennet Comedy entitled "The Summer Girl," and "He Comes Up Smiling," featuring Douglas Fairbanks. Sendel's Jazz Band is to render a number of popular selections...