Word: unitate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...human side of the war comes back to us vividly with the Harvard Surgical Unit. Two years before America had decided to send soldiers to Europe this little band of humanitarians went out. Now they come back with an astounding record of service, more than 150,000 casualties handled in their hospital alone...
...name of their unit is written as large in England's gratitude as in America's, because it happened that the work of the Harvard unit was with Tommies instead of doughboys. But in the service of humanity there are no National lines. Boston Globe...
...Harvard Surgical Unit under the leadership of Hugh Cabot A.B. '94, M.D. '98, will arrive at the North Station this afternoon about 2 o'clock. It will parade through Boston to Liberty Cottage on the Common, where the surgeons and nurses will be received by Governor Coolidge and his staff, Mayor Peters '85, Rear Admiral Wood and General Edwards...
...more than a year the unit has occupied British Base Hospital No. 22, stationed at Boulogne, where it has taken care of more than 150,000 British wounded. The hospital was bombed twice by the Germans. The second attack resulted in the death of a medical officer and four privates, and the wounding of about forty others...
...word that the Harvard Unit has reached this side of the Atlantic is the last episode in a striking example of the service which a university can render in time of war. Here was a group of men who recognized a problem which their training could solve. They established the Harvard Hospital Unit in France eighteen months before our country deemed it necessary to put her resources and training to this problem. Since July, 1915, amid hardships and dangers untold, while other such units were established and abandoned; these men cared for the wounded and sick...