Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Figures which the Memorial Society is at present compiling show that 474 Harvard men have thus far taken an active part in the European war, either in actual service or in relief and miscellaneous work. These records include, besides men in the military, naval and aviation service, those who have engaged in the hospital and ambulance service and in relief work of all kinds. The American Ambulance tops the list with 186 men, with the Surgical Unit second with 95. Fifty-eight men have been serving in the British army, 17 in the French, and five in other armies...
...list of the different activities and the number of men who have taken part in them follows: American Ambulance, 186 Harvard Surgical Unit, 95 British army, 58 Miscellaneous work of all kinds, 46 French army, 17 Belgian Relief, 16 Miscellaneous medical work, 15 Morgan-Harjes Ambulance, 12 Serbian Relief, 10 Y. M. C. A. Hut Work, 8 French aviation, 6 Armies other than British and French, 5 Total...
Among the men classed under "miscellaneous work of all kinds" are included war correspondents with the various armies, members of the diplomatic service, workers for the relief of prisoners of war not included in the above list, and men who are in charge of various other war relief projects...
...Haven a Yale Belgium Relief Committee has recently been formed. Plans are under way for raising a fund to support the children of a town in Belgium. With this object in view, Henry H. Ketcham, captain of the Yale 1914 football team, laid the matter before a temporary committee of undergraduates and it was decided to endeavor to secure the promise of Yale students to support the four or five hundred children of some one Belgium town. When it is definitely settled what town it is to be, maps will be posted in Yale Station showing the exact location...
...Columbia also a campaign was organized for the purpose of raising money to be devoted to the relief of students confined in the prison camps of Europe. Already the sum of $1,500 has been collected...