Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first University Medical Unit, pioneer of American organizations to take part in the war, started from Liverpool for home yesterday after a period of service covering nearly three years with the British Armies in France. The Unit is headed by Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94 and is composed almost entirely of doctors and nurses from Greater Boston. Their enlisted personnel was assigned from the British forces when the Unit arrived overseas in May, 1915. The Unit established Base Hospital No. 22 at Camler, France, where the members experienced two air raids from German combing planes which, on one occasion, crocked...
...establishment of this system can be taken by the colleges as a recognition of work well done. The college R.O.T.C.'s have at last been accepted as part of the regular military forces of the country. As a pioneer in establishing a training corps, the University may feel especially gratified at this recognition of the nation's need of the colleges...
...affect the personal equation in the preachment of frugality. At first it will be only gradually realized, the evolution of type being brought about, but nevertheless surely the foundation has been laid for a greater and saner, a better and more secure America after the war. St. Paul Pioneer Press...
Lieutenant Quincy Shaw Greene '13, of the Third Battalion, Coldstream Guards, has also been killed in the great battle now going on in France. In the spring of 1915 he went to England, and after a period of training at Windsor received a commission as second lieutenant in the pioneer battalion of the Guards...
...ocean of air. This ocean has its tides; its currents; its waves. It is beginning to be charted, but only just beginning. The late Professor A. Lawrence Rotch, founder and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, which he left to Harvard, with an endowment, in his will, was a pioneer in charting the atmosphere. Shortly before his death, Professor Rotch published his "Charts of the Atmosphere for Aeronauts and Aviators." This volume presents, in a practical form, some of the results obtained at Blue Hill during twenty years of observation. The charts are the first of their kind adapted...