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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvey Cushing M.D. '95, under the direction of President Lowell, this group was the second official American Unit to leave for service abroad, sailing May '11, 1917, three days after the Lakeside Unit. Their first post was 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...
This hospital probably had the most interesting and varied service of any of the base hospitals abroad. The six original base hospitals, of which the Harvard Unit was one, reporting to the British, averaged about 50,000 sick and wounded admissions, the sum total of their work being greater than that of all the other American hospitals of the A.E.F. put together...
...Base Hospital No. 5," he continues, "was one of the first six hospitals sent overseas, all of which were apportioned to the British Expeditionary Forces and it happens to be the only one of the three Units organized with a Harvard University background which contributed to the Medical Service...
...offered a cup to be presented to the member of the flying circus who makes the fastest time in a race from Springfield to Boston. Originally scheduled for Thursday the race was postponed until today on account of inclement weather and high winds. If good weather prevails the aviators, six in number, will start from Springfield about 9 o'clock this morning, and will arrive over Boston between 11 and 12. In the afternoon they will fly over the city, scattering Liberty Loan literature, performing stunts, ending the exhibition with a sham battle demonstrating the methods of actual aerial combat...
...heavy rain Thursday, the Woodland Country Club defeated the University golf team by a score of 4 to 0. Of the six matches, two were a tie, while the other four went easily to the Country Club players. J. B. Mahoney '19, T. Ashley, of Woodland, L. Liggett ocC., and J. Gahan, of Woodland, provided the most interesting matches. Francis Ouimet, captain of the Woodland Club, and formerly national open champion, although scheduled to meet Captain R. H. Wales '19, was unable to play, his place being taken by Jesse Guilford. The latter was hard pushed by the University captain...