Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Base Hospital No.5, the Harvard Medical Unit has recently returned to this country. Organized by Dr. Harvey Cushing M.D. '95, under the direction of President Lowell, this group was the second official American Unit to leave for service abroad, sailing May '11, 1917, three days after the Lakeside Unit. Their first post was with the British at Cameras fifteen miles south of Boulogne. After six months there, during which time on Sept. 4, 1917, they were severely bombed and suffered the first casualties of the American Expeditionary Force, the entire Unit was moved to Boulogne, becoming officially known...
...Morgan Memorial Institute, a large social center in Boston, has offered to make over all uniforms that will be collected into ordinary wearing apparel, which will be sent abroad for European relief. All other clothing will be distributed among a number of organized charities in Boston and Cambridge, including the American Red Cross which has just terminated a similar drive...
...Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock, Mr. Joseph A. Steinmetz, president of the Aero Club of Pennsylvania, will lecture on "Peace Time Aviation," under the auspices of the University Aeronautical Society. Mr. Steinmetz is in close touch with aeronautical development in this country and abroad, having recently spent three months at the front. He is a member of the National Research Council and the Submarine Defense Association...
Whereas technical and vocational books are supplied in abundance to our men abroad by means of the A. L. A. War Service, the provision of all other good reading depends on gifts only. Current magazines, as well as readable books, are especially desired. Members of the University are requested to give whatever they can spare either to the Phillips Brooks House clothing collectors or to Dr. C. O. S. Mawson, of the A. L. A. Overseas Dispatch Office, in the basement of Widener Library...
...common sense point to only one proper use for this money. The war is won, but it is not yet paid for. The government still has vast expenses to meet. Men and equipment must be brought home, Europe must be fed, and great programs of reconstruction at home and abroad must be carried out. The government must have money. If it cannot borrow, it will...