Word: general
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 as No. 13 General (Harvard, U.S.A.) Hospital, where it continued until after the signing of the Armistice. The hospital was demobilized on February 1, 1919. During the war many officers were detached for special service with the British or American forces, and a mobile hospital was entirely recruited from Base Hospital No. 5, seeing service...
There is a general misunderstanding and confusion concerning the different Harvard Hospital Units. The following extracts from a communication of Dr. Cushing to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal states concisely the history of these Units...
...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...
...voting to extend the general examination plan now used in the Division of History, Government, and Economics to other departments, the Faculty has taken an important step which, if properly carried out, should increase the interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate...
Word has just been received by the College from the Inspector General of Public Instruction in Paris, M. Petit Dutaillis, that Dean Henry Aaron Yeomans '00 has been accepted as Exchange Professor to the University of Paris for the first half of the academic year...