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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…

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.

A group of Student Army Training Corps cadets gathered in their barracks, a converted Johns Hopkins University classroom.

Students at rest in their barracks, a converted classroom in a Johns Hopkins University building.

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.

This memo shows the university’s commitment to accept 708 SATC students on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses.

By 1919, the war's impact on Hopkins is reflected in this page listing Hopkins men killed in service. View the entire 1919 yearbook.

The 1918 Hullabaloo yearbook shows how the war has transformed life at Hopkins. View the entire 1918 yearbook.

These pages depict the ROTC, a new group growing in stature on campus as the possibility of the US entering the war grew stronger. View the entire 1917 Hullabaloo yearbook.

One way women served during the war was by staffing YMCA canteens. These sites near the war front were a refuge for soldiers, offering amusement and services like post offices, libraries, and general stores. Elisabeth Gilman, daughter of founding…