Word: units
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There must be no weak spots in the group of officers. Class spirit and attachment to Harvard grow with every year. With the realization that these men will be the ones to hold the class together as an active unit, all personal favoritism should be laid aside in electing the final representatives of the Senior Class...
...Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. President Lowell will be the principal speaker of the evening. The opening speech will be delivered by R. K. Kane '22, President of the class of 1922, who will welcome the class in its first gathering as a unit this year and will introduce President Lowell. Following this address, R. P. Parker '22, Secretary, will report on the financial status of the class. This is the first financial report of the year, and it will undoubtedly be favorable, as the class realized a considerable profit on the Red Book...
...Harvard Unit was organized in the spring of 1915, and in June of that year 32 surgeons and physicians, three dentists, and 75 nurses, in charge of Dr. Edward H. Nichols '86, sailed for England. The Unit was assigned to General Hospital 22, British Expeditionary Forces, and remained in service, except for a break of three weeks in 1915, until the conclusion of hostilities. After several physicians had each had a term of service in charge of the Unit, Dr. Hugh Cabot '94 took permanent charge, was made Commanding Officer of the Hospital by the British Army, and was commissioned...
King George in person decorated several members of the Unit last winter, and A. J. Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, in a letter to President Lowed about the work of the members of the Unit, said...
...They have added lustre even to the fame of Harvard. The memory of so much service and self-sacrifice can never pass from us. It will be cherished in perpetuity by the relations and friends of those whom the Harvard Unit has tended with such admirable devotion...