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...front. About one hundred sections of 36 men each--a total of 3,600 men--are to be sent to France as soon as they can be trained, equipped and transported. The work of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance and the American Ambulance will ultimately be merged with the much larger and official undertaking of the American Government. A training camp is to be established under the direction of regular army officers within two weeks in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and the men will be regularly enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and will receive...
...compose these American ambulance units shall be of the highest class mentally and morally, and it is hoped that the leading colleges will contribute entire units which may be kept together and perhaps be given distinctive insignia. Fourteen hundred men have been asked for at once. All of the larger Eastern colleges save Harvard are already actively co-operating with the undertaking, and it appears that the desired number will be rapidly recruited. There yet remains, however, the possibility of forming a Harvard unit which will see active service under American officers in France in the immediate future. Enlistment blanks...
...created it, we are able to see a little more clearly what manner of men will form our new armies. It has been estimated that ten million men will be of the age subject for conscription. That is almost as large a total as Russia might offer. It is larger by two-thirds than the whole forces the German Empire has put in the field. Yet her men have been able to hold half the world at bay. The power in numbers of our nation is unconquerable. What our power in actual fighting ability is rests with the stamina...
...camp at New Haven would take on a Harvard air if more Harvard men were there. If other colleges wish to send a larger contingent, the Corps would welcome them gladly, and Harvard's representation join with them in a spirit of friendly rivalry...
...East, speaking through the editorial columns of its city papers, replies that did England only grant home-rule to Ireland, and had Poland only promise of liberty, and were Italy only assured larger rewards for victory, the East would enter in the war with braver heart, and contribute, as it has always said it would contribute, multiple of its just quota in man power to confound the West and Middle West...