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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...United States Base Hospital Unit Number 5, known as the Harvard Unit, left yesterday for Fort Hamilton, N. Y., where it will receive its final equipment before embarking for France. It carried with it the colors which were dedicated on Sunday by Bishop Lawrence...
...unit was recruited chiefly from the Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and is under the command of Dr. Harvey Cushing, M.D. '85, as director-in-chief with the rank of major. It consists of 25 officers, 65 nurses, and 153 enlisted personnel...
...Cushing and Dr. Elliott C. Cutler '09 will not leave until tomorrow. Dr. Roger I. Lee '02, Professor of Hygiene at the University, will start today to join the unit...
Among the graduates of the University who will officer the unit are three with the rank of major: Dr. Cushing, Dr. Lee, and Robert B. Osgood M. '99. The following graduates are captains: Walter B. Cannon '96, Reginald Fitz '06, George S. Derby '96, Walter M. Boothby '02, Edward B. Towne '06, Horace Buiney '97, Elliott C. Cutler '09, and Henry Lyman...
There was a big jump in the enlistments yesterday, 36 new men being accepted for service in the Corps. Most of these recruits came from other New England Colleges or were graduates of the University. Since the reopening of the unit after the Easter recess 396 men have applied for admission, 296 of whom have been accepted. Fifty-seven have been rejected for physical reasons, and the remaining 43 have not completed their enrolment. The enrolment bureau at Warren House will remain open until Saturday night...