Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1915 — College Students Are Off For War Countries. [ARTICLE]

College Students Are Off For War Countries.

Two groups of college men left Saturday on steamers for medical or relief service in the war. The largest of the two groups, consistuig of 35 graduates of the Harvard medical school and 75 nurses, goes on the Hoi lan d -America n line steamship Noodam for three months’ service with one of the British army hospitals. They expect to begin their work by July 4th and to be relieved by men from either Johns Hopkins or Columbia university in October. The other group, composed of 18 students from Columbia university, 6 from Princeton, one from Pennsylvania, with 25 Serbian interpreters and assistants, left on the ship Themistocies. They will distribute sanitation supplies, food and seeds among residents of the northern part of Serbia, which has been devastated by the war. Automobiles to be used in this work preceded them.