Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Chief of the Bureau of Needy Children and Infant Mortality is Dr. William P. Lucas '00. Richard C. Cabot '89 occupies the positions of Director of Medical Centres in the Bureau of Refugees and Relief. Edward E. Hunt '09, who acted as delegate for the city and province of Antwerp from 1914 to 1916, and was director of civilian relief in the American Red Cross for Italy last year, is at the head of the Bureau of Reconstruction and Relief. On the Editorial and Historical Division, Barton Blake '05 acts as chief and included among his assistants is Lewis...
...tendency to cram for examinations, to haggle over marks, to amass information relative to nothing other than the mer possession of it, are all symptoms of an educational disease that this writer sees clearly. But whether we agree with Mr. Hack's constructive ideas or not, it is great relief to find in his work a fearless bidding to Mr. Flexner and his opponents to stop their howling. The world is tired of fighting over terms. If there are faults with modern education, negative criticism alone will not go far toward curing them...
...University was represented by 51 graduates in the various units of the American relief expedition recently sent from New England to aid the stricken city of Halifax. On the day of the disaster President Lowell was, with others, in conference with Governor McCall, and arrangements were made immediately to send the first special relief train, in charge of the vice-chairman of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety...
...Cross Unit included J. F. Moors '83, recently elected member of the Corporation, and W. H. Pear '89. Mr. Moors was given entire charge of the Red Cross work, and he and his staff had the duty of co-operating with the citizens of Halifax in organizing the relief work...
Twenty-four hours after the arrival of the first relief train the Red Cross Unit, under Dr. W. E. Ladd '02, reached Halifax. Among the Physicians were 24 graduates of the University Medical School. They carried with them on a special train an entire equipment for a 500-bed hospital, in charge of S. H. Wolcott '03, assisted by G. H. Watson '98, Elton Clark '96 and L. Howland...