Word: united
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Colonel Robert C. F. Goetz, field artillery, arrived in Cambridge yesterday morning to make preliminary arangements for the establishment of an artillery unit at the University. He conferred with President Lowell, Dean Yeomans, and acting-dean C. N. Greenough, but would not comment for the present on the intended unit. "After I have become more acquainted with the situation here I shall be glad to discuss my plans," said Colonel Goetz yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter, "but all I have to say now is that I am very enthusiastic about the prospects of organizing an artillery unit at Harvard...
...wasn't the formal dinners and speeches to the Unit, it was rubbing shoulders with British surgeons over operating tables when the big push was on, working over Tommies and dough-boys alike--that was what made the Harvard Surgical Unit No. 22 a factor in knitting together a permanent Anglo-American friendship." This was the opinion expressed to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday by Captain Henry W. Woodward M.D. 15, who has been abroad with the University Unit since...
Captain Woodward was impressed with the hospitality of the British. He continued, "When the Unit first began its work there was a sort of indefinable coolness between the British and Americans, but the former soon found that the dollar mark was not an American's criterion of living; the latter learned that every Englishman did not wear a monocle. In a short time the officers of the Unit were thoroughly at home in a British mess...
...Harvard Unit," Captain Woodward explained, "was among the first to adopt the new 'primary suture' system of surgery; and to make it effective it was necessary to carry on even up at the front lines. This new system was not begun until last June; by it a wounded man is well in three weeks, instead of six months, and almost ninety percent of the operations are successful...
...called forth three powers which will not allow a return of the world to pre-war channels: labor, Bolshevism, and Wilson. The constant attention focused upon labor during the war has brought out its full importance. Men are accustomed to look upon the individual as the unit. They have learned the lesson of concerted action. They have acquired a new point of view and are prepared to accept new ideas...