Word: unite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part which Harvard men have been playing in the war is highly honorable. Some are helping to care for the wounded in France; others are fighting pestilence in Servia; and at present another "surgical unit" is being organized for work behind the lines. There is, however, room and need for much more service of this sort, not only on the part of men with medical training, but for others in general ambulance work...
Plans for the second University medical unit, begun at the request of Sir William Osler of Oxford, England, have assumed a definite shape and if international conditions continue as at present the unit will sail sometime between June 1 and 15. It has been announced that a staff of 32 surgeons and not less than 75 experienced nurses will leave Boston at that time for service in a base hospital for British wounded in England and in France...
...medical schools of Johns Hopkins and Columbia are involved in the same enterprise. Instead of uniting in a common staff for six months' service, each of the schools is planning to furnish a unit for two months. The first period is allotted to the University...
...organization of the University unit is in the hands of Dr. E. H. Nichols '86 of the Boston City Hospital, who is also in charge of the University athletic teams. Wr. W. E. Faulkner '87 and Dr. C. A. Porter '88 are among the first recruits. Many other surgeons of recognized standing and, a large number of nurses have made application for service...
...British army, but will not enlist or receive commissions. Their pay, and that of the nurses, will be the "war pay" of their ranks, ranging downward, for the surgeons, from majors to subalterns. The University is expected to provide the supplies and instruments, so that immediately upon arrival the unit will be ready for work...