(The Crimson invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Of all the 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 be continued. It is therefore evident that it is not merely the desire of a few well-intentioned women that this work should be carried on, but that its importance is recognized by such prominent men as those connected with the War Camp Community Service and the Secretary of War, all of whom are certainly in a position to be in touch with the situation.

The larger number of students in the College come to Cambridge with no natural means of contact with the community, and many of these go through their first year of College without an opportunity to enter a home in an informal way. The result is that they are very lonely, even though surrounded by classmates.

The 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 and suppers, dances and parties of various kinds, trips to historic points under interesting guidance, besides the use of the Hostess House itself, with its homey atmosphere, where they can read, write, play the piano or victrola, and where they will find a hostess ready to listen when they feel like talking, where they can come alone or bring their mothers and sisters or their girl friends.

The 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.