Word: training
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their losses constantly increase, the demand for surgeons will grow. At present a large force is needed to prevent sickness, but an even larger one will be necessary in a few months to repair the injuries caused by the Boches. These men must come from special institutions with special training, for doctors do not rise from the ranks. Just as some students are given particular instruction that they may become line officers, so others must learn the medical profession. The duty of anyone who has intended to study medicine is to follow out his schedule. Though he may erroneously believe...
...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...
According to a summary of the work published in the current Alumni Bulletin, this train carried the hospital unit of Dr. W. A. Brooks '87, made up of 12 surgeons and a corps of nurses; the American Red Cross Unit, appointed that day by Director-General W. F. Persons, LL.B. '05, and a carload of medical and general supplies...
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...
Fortunately there were both men and women on the cars who kept their heads and became influences for order in the apparent danger, helping the rest to recover their nerve and get out of the train. Were it not for their bravery many more injuries might have resulted...