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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...discussion at the annual dinner and conference of the Social Service Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association to be held in the Trophy Room of the Union at 6.30 o'clock this evening. The Committee has been active in social service work in and around Boston, and has found opportunities for many University volunteers, but the number of workers from the College will have to be more than doubled in order to carry out the new program of Americanization of the foreign-born...
...deadening of sound on office floors are now being conducted under Mr. Stone. As there is no other institution in the country offering similar opportunities for intensive office training, the government is taking advantage of the school and is sending men here to gain the valuable experience found in actually operating all these machines. These men are given a six-weeks' course in "employment managing." At present, a large number of students from all parts of the country are taking this course in preparation for a business career...
...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 men were honorably conspicuous long before America entered, and in which the Harvard roll of service eventually exceeded, if recollection...
...crew to the Severn. Nor is this the first time that the Freshmen have shown interest in their major sports. At the climax of the hockey season they offered to supply the funds to send their team to New York for the Yale and Princeton games, since those universities found it impracticable to have their freshmen make the trip to Cambridge. Unfortunately for the success of their zealous support those games were cancelled at the last minute...