Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Joel E. Goldthwait '90, president of the board of directors of the Robert B. Brigham Hospital left Boston last night for Washington, and will soon sail for Europe, accompanied by twenty orthopedic surgeons, including five graduates of the University. It will be Dr. Goldthwait's duty to place these surgeons in hospitals, where their services are most needed and afterward Dr. Goldthwait will make an inspection of the different hospitals and will report on his investigations to the United States Government in Washington on his return to America...
Three units of the American Ambulance Service have been organized at Princeton, and will sail the latter part of this month for France. The three sections will total 73 men, all of whom have signed up for a period of six months. One or perhaps two additional sections from Princeton will leave the first week in June and it is possible that a sixth unit of 25 men may follow later...
...expected that many University men will be enrolled in the Lafayette Corps. A group of men are to sail on May 19 among whom will be W. H. Meeker...
Twenty-nine members of the University have signed up to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France. This contingent is scheduled to sail from New York for Bordeaux on May 19. Some Steamer of the French Line will take the unit across. Applications to join the Ambulance Service have been pouring in so fast from all over the country that all accommodations for sailing up to June 2 have already been filled. In all, 192 men will go May 19 to drive ambulances, 203 the following week, and 165 on June 2. Many of these men have signed...
...sign up to drive until the end of the war. However, the American Corps does not expect to adopt such a policy. If members of the University wish to join the American Service they are to put in their applications immediately. No additional men can be singed up to sail before June 2, and at the rate applications are now coming, accommodations for this date will soon be filled. Men who want to join the Corps are to see G. R. Young '19, 40 State street, Boston, immediately. The following members of the University will join the unit that sails...