Word: wording
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...word that the Harvard Unit has reached this side of the Atlantic is the last episode in a striking example of the service which a university can render in time of war. Here was a group of men who recognized a problem which their training could solve. They established the Harvard Hospital Unit in France eighteen months before our country deemed it necessary to put her resources and training to this problem. Since July, 1915, amid hardships and dangers untold, while other such units were established and abandoned; these men cared for the wounded and sick...
Lieutenant Charles Parker Reynolds '18 died in France of typhoid fever. Word was received Saturday night by his parents that his death occurred after the Armistice was signed. Lieutenant Reynolds went through all the fighting with the 26th Division and was expected home at the time news of his death was received...
...Word was received yesterday of the death of Lieutenant James Kennedy Moorhead '17 and Law School, while leading his men in the drive on the Metz Fortress on the Verdun front last October. Moorhead left the University in April, 1917, for Fort Niagara where he was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to the 22nd Regiment of the Regular Army at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. From there he went to Philadelphia where he and his men guarded the interned German officers and sailors. Detailed to the 61st Infantry at Camp Green, North Carolina, he went overseas on April...
...last letter received from Lieutenant Moorhead was dated September 27, and told of his being in the Argonne forest. No further word was received until December 19 when a letter of formal condolence came to his mother from a fellow officer who wrote: "We went through it all together and no one put I knows the glorious battle your son put up." Only sixteen of the company of two hundred and fifty survived...
...immediate future at least, it is expected that this refers only to the men over 25 years old who left some important occupation to join the S. A. T. C. Nothing really definite has been decided yet, however, but it is likely that definite word will be received before long...