SURGICAL UNIT BOND BETWEEN ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES

"It wasn't the formal dinners and speeches to the Unit, it was rubbing shoulders with British surgeons over operating tables when the big push was on, working over Tommies and dough-boys alike--that was what made the Harvard Surgical Unit No. 22 a factor in knitting together a permanent Anglo-American friendship." This was the opinion expressed to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday by Captain Henry W. Woodward M.D. 15, who has been abroad with the University Unit since 1915.

Captain Woodward was impressed with the hospitality of the British. He continued, "When the Unit first began its work there was a sort of indefinable coolness between the British and Americans, but the former soon found that the dollar mark was not an American's criterion of living; the latter learned that every Englishman did not wear a monocle. In a short time the officers of the Unit were thoroughly at home in a British mess.

"The Harvard Unit," Captain Woodward explained, "was among the first to adopt the new 'primary suture' system of surgery; and to make it effective it was necessary to carry on even up at the front lines. This new system was not begun until last June; by it a wounded man is well in three weeks, instead of six months, and almost ninety percent of the operations are successful.

"The first wounded American dough-boy to come into our hands set the entire Unit in ecstasies of delight--every Harvard man swelled with pride--not because the poor fellow's wounds amounted to anything in themselves, but because they were a positive, visible proof to our British companions that America was in the war. Every member of our Unit has made lasting fiendships with the English. Many of us were detached to other hospitals which were understaffed when the big push was on, and so I am sure that by rubbing shoulders with the British officers and Tommies throughout all Northern France, by giving them our best efforts when they were down to iron rations last spring, the University's Unit accomplished untold good in furthering the spirit of co-operation between the two great English speaking peoples