Word: units
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present war the Harvard Medical School is doing its share in relief work. When England called for medical aid from this country a year ago, there was a response from many quarters, including Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard. But of the three universities Harvard alone sent a unit to the European hospitals, where it worked efficiently for three months, and was succeeded by another unit. Then England asked Harvard to send a unit to take charge of a base hospital of one thousand beds, and accordingly thirty doctors and seventy nurses are now active in that base hospital...
...Dean Edward H. Bradford '69 will preside, and the other speakers will be: Dr. Frederick S. Shattuck, formerly Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Medical School; Dr. Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; and Dr. Edward H. Nichols '86, a member of the Harvard Unit at the British Field Hospital, surgeon for the athletic teams, and Associate Professor of Surgery...
...meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Medical School over one hundred medical students enrolled for the unit which is being organized there to drill with the Harvard Regiment...
...idea of this unit originated at the Medical School, and is backed by Captain Cordier and Major General Wood. Major Hall, U.S.A., retired, is to take charge of the division after its organization, but until that time the men will be under the supervision of Captain Cordier...
...work for the unit will consist of drill to be held in the Baseball Cage on Thursday evenings at 8.30 o'clock until outdoor work is feasible. A course of lectures will also be given on Friday afternoons, attendance at which will be required of all who enroll. Two unexcused lecture cuts will result in dismissal from the unit. Recruiting, field and camp sanitation, medical administration, sanitary tactics and first aid, and discipline will be among the subjects treated. A course of lectures is also planned to be given during July. Other branches of work will be taken up after...