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Providing that sufficient funds can be raised six more members of the University in addition to the eight already named will accompany the American Students Reconstruction Unit to France this summer. These men are: E. M. Best Unc., G. W. Crist Jr. Unc., E. C. Jones aS.L.A., G. N. Gates Unc., F. H. Lindley '22, and F. J. Roelle 1 E.S. Although at first limiting the size of the Unit to fifty students, the Executive Committee, on account of the remarkable number of applications, has consented to allow about 25 extra men to make the trip. The six University students...
...benefit which the members of the Unit will derive from this service will be of great value both to them and the future of architecture in America, as France today has in the Ecole des Beaux Arts the foremost architectural school in the world, and the students will work under graduates of this institution...
Inasmuch as each college section of the Reconstruction Unit will be expected in a large measure to provide the funds for its own support, the principal problem now confronting the University men interested in the trip is that of financing their part of it. Various schemes were discussed for the raising of the necessary funds. However, nothing will be definitely settled concerning this matter until the Reconstruction Association, which has its office in New York City, selects from the University applicants those who will make the trip to France. And since the Unit will be composed all together of only...
...Unit Sails About June...
Although scheduled to sail from New York to France on the "Paris" June 23, the Reconstruction, Unit will probably not leave this country till about June 28, by which date the year's work in practically every college will be at an end. On arriving in France the Unit will start a three-months' program in that part of the devastated regions lying between Rheims and Verdun. The principal work of the Unit will be to make projects and drawings for the restoration of buildings, to help the surveyors in relocating property lines and laying out new villages...