Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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King George has sent to the University a personal communication praising the work of the Harvard Hospital Unit which served with the British Army throughout the war, and expressing the lively gratitude of the British Army and the British Nation for what was done by the physicians and nurses of the Unit...
...communication was relayed to Cambridge by the British Embassy and the State Department. It reads as follows...
...King desires to express his warm appreciation of the invaluable services rendered to the British Army by the Harvard University Hospital Unit, whose work for the sick and wounded, from the arrival of the earliest contingent of Medical Officers and Nursing Sisters before the first year of the war was ended, until the conclusion of hostilities, was marked by the highest devotion and by the perfection of medical and nursing skill. Their record can never be forgotten, or remembered without lively gratitude, by the British Army and the British Nation. GEORGE...
Although the collegians in 1876 took over the Rugby style of play intact, the American genius for invention soon began to work amazing changes in the game which their English comrades had left substantially alone for 40 years. The British fashion of continually kicking the ball abated, and in its place rushing and passing became more predominant features...
Viscount Grey, the newly appointed British Ambassador to the United States, has accepted an invitation to visit the University on Monday, December 8, according to announcement made yesterday. He will speak at the Union that evening...