Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University was represented by 51 graduates in the various units of the American relief expedition recently sent from New England to aid the stricken city of Halifax. On the day of the disaster President Lowell was, with others, in conference with Governor McCall, and arrangements were made immediately to send the first special relief train, in charge of the vice-chairman of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety...
According to a summary of the work published in the current Alumni Bulletin, this train carried the hospital unit of Dr. W. A. Brooks '87, made up of 12 surgeons and a corps of nurses; the American Red Cross Unit, appointed that day by Director-General W. F. Persons, LL.B. '05, and a carload of medical and general supplies...
...certain that conditions are as grievous as made out to be, or as difficult to remedy as we hope. Exaggerated press despatches or the Kaiser's willful misrepresentation may very likely arouse false expectations. We are encouraged at the Teutons' seeming disorders, but they, too, may rejoice that American industry is becoming more and more tied up as the war progresses. Surely, with a little of the censor's camouflage, one is as reasonable as the other. Our own confidence in the United States' ability to straighten out difficulties, and the prejudiced belief that Germany can not makes the enemy...
Fairfield was graduated from St. George's School at Newport last June, passed his examinations for admittance into the College, but did not register in September. Shortly afterward he joined the Wynne Bevan Ambulance Corps, an English organization. He was only 18 years old, the youngest of the five Americans in the Bevan service, and also the youngest American in any branch of the army in Italy. The other members of the ambulance corps are English citizens...
...withdraw from the engagement. Both he and Mrs. Schofield, however, were unwilling to have him abandon his undertaking, because they felt it to be an opportunity for public service. In addition to the University appointment, on his trip through the West he will act as the representative of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, of which he is president, and of the National Security League, of which he is a prominent member...