Word: unitate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first University Medical Unit, pioneer of American organizations to take part in the war, started from Liverpool for home yesterday after a period of service covering nearly three years with the British Armies in France. The Unit is headed by Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94 and is composed almost entirely of doctors and nurses from Greater Boston. Their enlisted personnel was assigned from the British forces when the Unit arrived overseas in May, 1915. The Unit established Base Hospital No. 22 at Camler, France, where the members experienced two air raids from German combing planes which, on one occasion, crocked...
...ensign students, will be restored to its previous condition and will be fitted up with lounges as before. The Reading Room, which was used by the Naval men, will continue to serve as a dining room for upperclassmen. The Shed which was erected as a shelter for the Naval Unit will be torn down...
...letter recently received from Lt.-Col. Hugh Cabot '94 by the President of the Harvard Woman's Club of Boston and printed in the Alumni Bulletin, emphasizes the importance of the work accomplished by the Harvard Hospital Unit in France. This was the only American college hospital unit that succeeded in carrying on its activities right through the war. It was established in 1915. The letter follows...
...receipt of a letter from Mr. Herbert H. White in which he advises me that your club has contributed liberally to the support of this unit which has been maintained here in the name of the University since July, 1915. It may be assumed that the fact that I have spent some two years of my time in doing what I could to see that this work was carried on in a way creditable to the dignity of the University is evidence that I have believed it to be of real importance. It is not, as I believe, accidental, that...
...point that I am trying to make is that this Unit in its more than three years of active and, as I believe, efficient existence, has made the name of Harvard known and trusted; that it has importantly increased the possibilities that the University may be of real service after the War; and that this, rather than its humanitarian or military aspects, has been and should be regarded as its real purpose. Certainly, those of us who have sacrificed not only our time but in all probability our future prospects to the transaction of this work have not done...