Word: unite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unless contributions for the support of the University members of the American Students' Reconstruction Unit in France materially increase, only a few of the fourteen students chosen from the University will be able to make the trip. Inasmuch as each college section of the Unit will be expected to provide in a large measure the funds for its own members, the situation at present is critical...
...Executive Committee of the University section of the Unit has estimated that $3000 will be needed to cover the expenses of the trip. As only six of the men chosen will be able to pay their own way, the other eight students will necessarily be compelled to give up the project unless sufficient funds are raised University alumni or undergraduates wishing to contribute should send their subscriptions to S. R. McCandless 1S.A. at Robinson Hall...
...crop. These awards will be given to the highest point winners, and there will also be ribbons for the winners of the different events, in the relay race, each member of the winning team will receive two points. In the mounted wrestling, two teams will be chosen by the Unit and each man remaining mounted at the end will receive two points...
...these, an "Indoor Ride," is an example of an afternoon's work in a class in equitation. Two of the events are for teams; the relay race is for teams of four men and one horse, and the mounted wrestling will be between two teams chosen from the unit. Of the other events, the "Musical Stalls" is open to all, while the potato race is for first year men, and the obstacle race is for second and third year men. The University Band will play during the gymkhana...
...University has a right to feel proud that it leads the other American colleges by having fourteen members accepted for the American Students Reconstruction Unit. They will do an unusual work. Out of the ruins that the Germans left when they over-ran the district between Rheims and Verdun, they will build towns and villages with an aim to health as well as beauty. Modern sanitary arrangements will be introduced that are unknown to the French. The Unit will contribute to the welfare and happiness of hundreds. We are told that only eight of the fourteen members of the University...