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SERIES Identifier: UAI 5.160.x

Records of the President of Harvard University, Abbott Lawrence Lowell

[Russian Orthodox priests and nuns, photograph, ca. 1930] Digital

[Russian Orthodox priests and nuns, photograph, ca. 1930] Digital Object
[Russian Orthodox priests and nuns, photograph, ca. 1930] Digital Object

Epidemic -- Influenza Digital

Scope and Contents

The documents in this folder contain communications relating to Harvard's response to theinfluenza epidemic of 1918. The letters concern the questions of whether to close the University, cancel classes, and suspend chapel services. The letters contain offers of medical assistance and indications of medical opinion.

Epidemic -- Influenza Digital Object
Epidemic -- Influenza Digital Object

Military Training -- S. A. T. C. -- Influenza Digital

Scope and Contents This folder contains a letter from Elizabeth Lyman Cabot requesting that President Abbot Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University use his influence to ensure that the Harvard men in the Harvad Unit of the Students' Army Training Corps are issued with woolen clothing to protect their health during the 1918 influenza epidemic, and President Lowell's response. Also included is a memo, no. 49, dated Nov. 20, 1918, indicating to steps to be taken by S.A.T.C. units in...
Military Training -- S. A. T. C. -- Influenza Digital Object
Military Training -- S. A. T. C. -- Influenza Digital Object