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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first University Medical Unit, pioneer of American organizations to take part in the war, started from Liverpool for home yesterday after a period of service covering nearly three years with the British Armies in France. The Unit is headed by Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94 and is composed almost entirely of doctors and nurses from Greater Boston. Their enlisted personnel was assigned from the British forces when the Unit arrived overseas in May, 1915. The Unit established Base Hospital No. 22 at Camler, France, where the members experienced two air raids from German combing planes which, on one occasion, crocked...
...drooping whiskers up from his mouth and expressing all emotions by the intelligent ejaculation, 'Ullo! As Alf, of the patent cigar lighter which would never light, Mr. Percy Jennings gave a very realistic representation of that cheerful, red headed little Irishman of the type which seems to have almost disappeared in these days of Teuton plots and Sinn Feiners. Mr. Leon Gordon, formerly of the Henry Jewett Players, took the part of Bert, the Don Juan of the trio, the man "with a girl in every trench." His interpretation of the part was faultless but he suffered from being somewhat...
...auditorium of this Museum proved to be hopelessly bad in its acoustic qualities, and President Eliot, who had learned to appreciate Sabine's qualities, asked him to find a remedy. Up to that time success in the building of an auditorium seemed to be almost a matter of chance, and the best architects acknowledged it to be such. In fact it was one of the most famous architects in America who had designed the Fogg Museum...
...Professor Sabine, who was in Europe for more than a year beginning with the summer of 1916, made an especial study of problems in aviation, and on his return to this country he was at once taken into the most intimate counsels of the Air Service at Washington. Almost every week until the signing of the armistice he spent at least two or three days in the Government service travelling back and forth between Cambridge and Washington constantly. Frequently he hoped for a respite, but inevitably a telegram would summon him from Cambridge after he had been here...
...prevent the American people from standing as one great mourning family at the dead chieftain's bier today. The tributes that have been paid to him by the great and little of the nation--of all nations--are of perfect sincerity, and sometimes of a degree of emotion that almost chokes their utterance, but all are inadequate, all seem commonplace in the light of his own greatness, which has not died with him, which cannot fade from the earth, and which will, with time, inspire our orators and our poets to their highest flights...