Word: united
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...David Cheever, Jr., '97, professor of surgery in the Medical School, and leader of the second University Medical Unit, will arrive in New York today on the S. S. "Philadelphia" of the American Line. With Dr. Cheever are Dr. L. Bremer '96 and several other members of the unit who were unable to enlist for the full six months. Dr. W. E. Faulkner '87, Associate in Surgery at the Medical School, and a member of the first unit, has sailed to take Dr. Cheever's place as leader...
...present unit, which left New York on November 16, will continue its work until about the middle of May. The thirty surgeons who comprise the party include a surgical staff, a medical staff, dentists, a pathologist, a bacteriologist, a roentgenologist, and specialists in the eye and ear. Thirty-six graduate nurses complete the unit. The party went for service under the British War Office, under a clause in the Geneva Convention which allows neutral nations to send sanitary and medical aid to the scene of hostilities without sacrificing their neutrality. The members of the unit have, therefore, not been commissioned...
...depicted forcefully the conditions of the United States at the present time in its contented attitude of settling back to grow rich and its "corporal's guards which chase from Alaska to Vera Cruz" with no definite purpose; the fleet with its individual ships in good order but lacking as "a fighting unit." All of which, he said, showed the inconsistent lack of detail. Congress did not go far enough, it was willing to do as much as its intelligence could comprehend but there it stopped...
George Herbert Crocker, Jr. '17, of Fitchburg, sails from New York tomorrow morning on the "New York," for France. He will join the Harjes Ambulance Unit and expects to be abroad for six-months...
Besides its work in Europe, the Medical School has fostered the preparedness policy at home. Realizing that this country, in case of war, would be in crying need of doctors with military training, a unit has been started in conjunction with the Harvard Regiment. Ninety men have volunteered in it; and thirty have enrolled for Plattsburg this summer, to obtain military training for the medical corps...