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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...February, 1917 Col. Cabot definitely took over the unit which had increased from five hundred and forty to three thousand beds. By far the larger number of the patients were British and Canadians who had been wounded in the fighting around Ypres. At one time, during the German offensive of March, 1918, twelve hundred patients were received by the unit within twenty-four hours...
...unit was established under Sir Allan Perry of the English Army at Dannes-Camieres near Boulogne in June, 1915. It was one of a large number of hospitals which stretched south for twenty miles along the seashore road from Boulogne. Most of the British supplies were landed and stored in this district which, consequently, drew an almost continual flock of enemy bombing machines...
...office hours of the Text-book Loan Library have been changed. Henceforth, the library will be open Monday and Saturday from 9 to 10, and Wednesday from 2 to 3. There are a limited number of Law Books available for the men starting in the Law School Monday...
...Versailles Number of the Lampoon the unspoken words of a million readers are voiced in a criticism of the overdone war jokes. To prove the justice of his complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that...
...illustrations in the Versailles Number are excellent, and the poetry and limericks beyond precedent. In the mind of the reader the only unhappy thought is that Lampy may be unable to maintain his standard