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...time and place, and the first few days will be devoted to familiarizing the men in a general way with what their duties will be, after which the ships will leave their respective naval districts and cruise for a period of about three weeks, taking part as a squadron unit in the big war game which is to be held off the coast by the Atlantic Fleet. The third week will be spent cruising along the coast, and the fourth week each ship returns to the port from which she started and will take part in conjunction with motor boats...
Fifty-three men and women, comprising the third Medical Unit sent by the University to the French front, will leave the South Station at 8.20 o'clock this morning for New York. Arrived at the metropolis, the party will transfer baggage and equipment to the "Andania," of the Cunard line, and will sail for Liverpool at 5 o'clock this afternoon...
...unit, which is led by Dr. Hugh Cabot '94, is composed of 33 nurses and 20 surgeons, including two dentists. This group will continue the work of the second unit, which was sent to Europe last November at the request of Sir William Osler, of Oxford, England, and which will complete a six months' tour of duty at a British Base Hospital near Boulogne on the French coast on June 9. On that date the new unit will arrive and take charge. It is expected that the hospital will have a capacity of 1400 beds...
Like all regular British hospitals, since it is to be organized as a base hospital in the British regular service, the unit will be under the general supervision of Director-General Sir Alfred Keough, whose office corresponds to that of surgeon-general in the United States Army. Dr. Cabot, as chief surgeon, will be ranked as a lieutenant-colonel, and the other surgeons will receive ranks as majors, captains, and lieutenants, according to the duties which they are to perform...
...rather than a large number in a slipshod fashion. These are, of course, dangers of the abuse of such privileges; but they are administrative difficulties which the personal supervision of the tutors could surmount. President Lowell's theory that the student rather than the individual course is the proper unit in education applies with force to this situation...