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abroad; while a large number of overseas service men as yet have not been recorded.
Base Hospital No. 49, now serving overseas, was organized under the auspices of the college of medicine, and is manned largely both in its officers and its privates by University men. Two University women also are in its corps. There are many Nebraska men in the medical and ambulance corps of both army and navy. Many members of the faculty of the college of medicine are serving as commissioned officers in the medical corps.
The women, too, of the University of Nebraska have contributed their share. Miss Alice Howell and Miss Blanche Grant of the faculty have gone overseas as canteen workers. An alumna, Miss Helen Sargent, gave up her life as a Red Cross nurse. Alumnae and students have furnished a large number of workers in the food conservation work, Red Cross, Y. W. C. A., canteen service, student nurses, dietitians, reconstruction workers, and other important branches of service.
Campus life itself was transformed by the war. The student body in large measure gave up their social life in order to contribute their money to war funds and their time to war work. In every war drive the University went over the top. The department of athletics alone contributed $7,000 to Red Cross. Both men and women worked in the Red Cross rooms where surgical dressings were made daily. Members of the faculty added to their already heavy schedules of class-room work when members of their department were called into service granted leaves of absence. They went out over the state freely to give lectures upon the meaning and significance of the war. They served on numerous and varied war committees.
Much more might be said of the University and its part in the war. Those who have come in contact with its faculty, alumni, and student body, know of their share. After the armistice was signed three men represented the University of Nebraska at the peace conferences at Versailles—General John J. Pershing, Major F. M. Fling, and
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