The Student Army Training Corps program was short lived on the Hopkins campus. Students had been on campus for less than two months when the War Department issued this memo calling for commanding officers to discharge all students in the program.
Elisabeth Gilman wrote this account of her work in a Paris Y.M.C.A. canteen after she had been there for ten weeks. She describes the soldiers, her regular duties, and the canteen she helped to run.
This postcard depicts the writing and reading room of the Y.M.C.A. canteen Elisabeth Gilman managed in Paris. In her article "The Enlisted Men in Paris," Gilman describes a library of a few hundred volumes that was greatly appreciated by visiting…
In her article "The Enlisted Men in Paris," Elisabeth Gilman says of this canteen: "From three to six in the afternoon and from eight to eleven in the evening men come for a cup of chocolate and a sandwich. For the boys are as hungry over here as at…
Soldier Malcolm W. Vaughan writes to Elisabeth Gilman from the front, asking her to notify his mother if he should die. He also asks that Gilman forward his "love diary" to a friend in the United States once she is confident that it won't be…