Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This process of training of course gives no idea as to the capabilities of the candidates in team work, but it does give Lander a chance to size up their individual values and weaknesses, and helps materially in finding out how much material he will have in the spring. He has discovered some good men who have not been out before as university candidates and says that the team will start out in 1917 with better chances for development than it had a year ago. He expects to have 50 men then, all with a good chance to make...
...Gebel Barkal from Cairo on January 24 fast," says Dr. Reisner in his report. "We worked there three months, employing a force of about 300 local workmen, and left just in time to escape the hot weather. Fortunately at Gebel Barkal there were two completely ruined pyramids of small size. We found in the case of each a stairway on the eastern side leading down to the chambers under the pyramid. With this hint we attacked the larger pyramids, and within a month we had found the entrances of 25 pyramids and had cleared the burial chambers...
...collection, authorized by the Harvard Surgical Unit, will be taken up by the ushers. The fourth contingent of the Surgical Unit, under Herbert H. White '93 will leave for Europe on November 18. Already the University has supplied over 100 surgeons, doctors and dentists for this work, and the size of the hospital has been increased, accommodations having been made for 1,350 additional beds...
...soldiers dying because they could not promptly be attended to. It was then that the American Ambulance was organized. Well in the rear for the first eight months, it served its novitiate carrying men back and forth from train to hospital. With April, 1915, it had come of such size as to warrant its formation into three field units: No. One at Dunkirk, No. Two in Lorraine, No. Three in the Vosges: What these sections went through, the very interesting articles and the letters to the inspector general, Mr. Piatt Andrew, well describe...
...College it was intended to have Captain Bjornstad come to Cambridge to take up the work of the Military Department in co-operation with Captain Cordier. Some uncertainty in the War Department orders as to his final appointment, however, has delayed his assignment to the University until now. The size of the Battalion and the interest shown by the University in military instruction entitles it to the services of two officers of as high rank as captain...