Word: welling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...financial campaign to support the work of Phillips Brooks House has so far been attended by only partial success. Only a few of those who know the Brooks House well and have been among its loyal friends in the past are back in Cambridge this fall. These men have responded to the call, but the need is greater than they realize. So it is to the new men, Harvard Freshmen and men of the S. A. T. C. not vitally connected with the University that the canvassers are forced to look...
...families and relatives before leaving for an O. T. C., the Phillips Brooks Touse is splendidly equipped as a hostess house. The experience obtained through running the hut for the Radio School will help Phillips Brooks House in maintaining excellent writing rooms with a plentiful supply of stationery, as well as comfortable rooms for rest and reading. Entertainments will be given regularly throughout the year, and as soon as the epidemic is officially declared over, it is planned to hold a big reception...
Cases of Spanish Influenza, at the University and among the students in the S. A. T. C. have been kept well in hand throughout this week, and at present Stillman Infirmary, where the Influenza cases are being treated, has the best record of any hospital in the vicinity. There are now about 60 cases of Influenza at Stillman, but there have been no deaths from the disease. In the Boston hospitals there has been an average mortality of 20 per cent, of all Influenza cases admitted. At Camp Devens, where there are some 48,000 men, there have been...
...boys, Copey, have done remarkably well. I am with the French and I know how the French feel. We have bragged a lot about what we should do, and the best of it is we are going ahead of what we really thought we were able to do. The American is no longer a curiosity on this side. We see hundreds of them every day, and it is wonderful to see the way they are pouring...
...roads were terrible. I saw men and horses knocked dead ahead of me, and as always, the cross roads were a mark for the 77's and larger German guns. The dead were just dragged to the side of the road. It was blazing hot, and you can well imagine the stench which prevailed with all of those dead men and horses around. The woods were a hive of living and mechanical apparatus, while the air howled with the crash of guns and the buzz of aeroplane motors...