Word: units
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fourth University surgical unit of doctors and nurses will sail for France on the Cunard liner "Andania" from New York this afternoon. It will be sent out as a reinforcement to the third unit which is at present serving behind the British lines in northern France. Many of the members of the third unit have renewed their terms of service for another three months; the fourth unit, however, will fill the places of those who are unable to remain abroad any longer...
...unit is under the management of H. H. White '93, who has been appointed permanent manager of the various units which are to be furnished by the University until the end of the war. It is expected that the doctors and nurses will arrive at the base hospital about December 9, when the term of service of the third contingent expires. The fourth division of this service has contracted to remain in France from three months to one year...
...doctors and surgeons who are included in the unit are Drs. B. K. Emerson '01, of Worcester; F. W. Palfrey '98, of Boston; F. F. Pike '98, of Melrose; H. B. Potter, of Wakefield, R. I., and P. H. Provandie '98, of Melrose. One dentist, Dr. C. N. Lewis, of Boston, will sail with the unit, and two other physicians will follow in a month or two. These latter two are Drs. P. P. Chase '10 and H. C. Pitts, both of Providence, R. I. Accompanying the physicians and surgeons will be a contingent of 20 trained nurses from...
...have been interested in following in your columns the news of the programs made by other colleges or universities toward the establishment of units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. But it has been a source of regret to me, and I fancy to many other Harvard graduates also, to contrast these programs with on own inactivity in the matter. It would appear, indeed, as if the reluctance of the University last year to encourage or sanction even the Volunteer Regiment was to be repeated in a similar unwillingness now to co-operate with the War Department in a patriotic...
...need for action at once is great. The War Department regulations require twenty-eight weeks of drill during the college year, and the time for complying with this requirement grows short. Yale has already made her application for a unit at New Haven, and Cornell and Pennsylvania have announced their intention of so doing. Even if the time is not yet ripe for any action on our part, has not the moment arrived for at least a word to assure us that the University is actively engaged in considering how Harvard can best fulfill the plans which the War Department...