At Cornell this was hotelies, students in the Hotel School (1 of 7 colleges. 3, it not included, are actually part of the State of New York public college system, dating to the original Morrill Land Grant Act)
Generating some of the best hospitality cohort in the world was actually valuable to New York, like how the Human Ecology (née Home Economics) housewives’ clothesmaking training evolved into a pipeline for the NYC fashion industry, but the set of Ivy League engineers/pre-meds/architects/even poets hearing them complain about their homework in the dorm TV room was like “man,”