Vassar Students Hear Talk on Nurses Training Camp
Mrs. Blodgett alumna and trustee outlines the need for college trained nurses for war service. She cites Uganda? No. Wait. The talk stresses 80 000 to 90 000 registered nurses nationwide, 3000 sent to the front, 30 000 more to be sent. England’s lack of prep highlighted and the call for immediate training of college women. Vassar mobilizes to support the camp with undergraduates volunteering and a $95 registrar fee to begin.
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University Committee of Conference appointment details
The Trustees at Columbia University approve a Committee of Conference to confer with the Trustees on matters affecting officers, with education committee involvement in faculty terminations, and terms for members Woodbridge Pegram Dewey Thorndike Stone Wilson. Members’ service terms expire by lot: 1919 to 1921. No member serving twelve months or more is eligible for re election for one year after retirement.
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Columbia University
University Council
University
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Dewey
A. H. Thorndike
Stone
E. B. Wilson
Barnard Farmerettes Lead in Broad East Drive
Barnard College unit at Bedford inspires Land Army Camps in the East and furnishes speakers for a spring campaign. The weeklong effort included Alice Goebell at Ridgefield and speeches by C Geer Oyster Bay, O Thising Philadelphia, T Skinner Princeton, and H Stevens Baltimore and Frederick. Barnard plans four new units led by alumnae and Farmed work ahead to match sister colleges.
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Land Army
Alice Goebell
Ridgefield
Connecticut
C. Geer
Oyster
New York
Bridgehampton
Long Island
New Jersey
H. Woodhull
M. Denton
Edith Butts
Red Cross bans colored stripes on socks
Orders from Red Cross headquarters forbid colored stripes in socks due to dye risk of infection in wounds.
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