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...David Cheever, Jr., '97, professor of surgery in the Medical School, and leader of the second University Medical Unit, will arrive in New York today on the S. S. "Philadelphia" of the American Line. With Dr. Cheever are Dr. L. Bremer '96 and several other members of the unit who were unable to enlist for the full six months. Dr. W. E. Faulkner '87, Associate in Surgery at the Medical School, and a member of the first unit, has sailed to take Dr. Cheever's place as leader...
...depicted forcefully the conditions of the United States at the present time in its contented attitude of settling back to grow rich and its "corporal's guards which chase from Alaska to Vera Cruz" with no definite purpose; the fleet with its individual ships in good order but lacking as "a fighting unit." All of which, he said, showed the inconsistent lack of detail. Congress did not go far enough, it was willing to do as much as its intelligence could comprehend but there it stopped...
George Herbert Crocker, Jr. '17, of Fitchburg, sails from New York tomorrow morning on the "New York," for France. He will join the Harjes Ambulance Unit and expects to be abroad for six-months...
...present war the Harvard Medical School is doing its share in relief work. When England called for medical aid from this country a year ago, there was a response from many quarters, including Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard. But of the three universities Harvard alone sent a unit to the European hospitals, where it worked efficiently for three months, and was succeeded by another unit. Then England asked Harvard to send a unit to take charge of a base hospital of one thousand beds, and accordingly thirty doctors and seventy nurses are now active in that base hospital...
Besides its work in Europe, the Medical School has fostered the preparedness policy at home. Realizing that this country, in case of war, would be in crying need of doctors with military training, a unit has been started in conjunction with the Harvard Regiment. Ninety men have volunteered in it; and thirty have enrolled for Plattsburg this summer, to obtain military training for the medical corps...