Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proposal as to the citizen army is strangely reminiscent of Mr. Bryan. Physical training in schools and colleges is essentially desirable but it is not obvious just how it will make every citizen ready to become a soldier at a moment's notice, especially when French, British and American army experts fix six months as the minimum training for recruits Rating an any after an emergency is much like organizing a fire department after the outbreak of a conflagration...
...Harvard Club of New York City has founded the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship. This represents a gift to the University of a principal sum of forty thousand dollars, or a larger sum if the subscriptions warrant it. The yearly income from this is to be enjoyed by a British subject coming from the University of Cambridge, England, to study in any department of this University. As John Harvard was graduated from Emmanuel College. Cambridge, in 1631, the committee in charge of the Fellowship is hoping that it may serve as a model for similar foundations at the University...
...success of these ventures led to a proposal, fostered by Mr. Robert Bacon, Sir William Osler, and others, that certain American universities send similar units to serve with the British, and Harvard contributed another Unit, under the command of Dr. Cabot, which, since 1915, was stationed at No. 22 General Hospital, Camiers, with...
...Base Hospital No. 5," he continues, "was one of the first six hospitals sent overseas, all of which were apportioned to the British Expeditionary Forces and it happens to be the only one of the three Units organized with a Harvard University background which contributed to the Medical Service...
...rolls of the American Army educational institutions, according to a cabled report from Raymond Fosdick, chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities, to the War Department. The A. E. F. University at Beaune has 10,000, about 7,000 attend French universities, and 3,000 are at British Institutions...