Word: unites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your article on "Reconstruction Unit Needs More Contributions" in your issue of May 12, has been called to my attention. May I point out that the town of Pinon which you mention, is not going to be built by the French government, but by La Renaissance des Cites which is a voluntary, private association of a group of leading Frenchmen who see in the present conditions, an opportunity to remake a large section of France in a way to insure its four million inhabitants a better and healthier life than ever before...
Only $120 has been contributed to date for the support of the University section of the American Students' Reconstruction Unit in France this summer. This was announced yesterday by the Executive Committee of the University section. The fourteen members of the University chosen to accompany the Unit to France need at least $2500 to cover the expenses of the trip. And unless this amount is raised by June 1, only a small percentage of the fourteen will be able to go. This group will include a few who can pay their own way and those whom the Reconstruction Association proper...
...date of the Unit's departure from this country has been definitely set for Thursday, June 23, although the 28th was also considered. Passage has been engaged on the steamship "Paris" of the French Line, which will sail from New York City. Upon its arrival in France the unit will be subdivided into a number of small groups which will be allotted to different towns and villages between Rheims and Verdun. Mr. Robert E. Buell, Secretary of the Reconstruction Association, sailed early this month to complete arrangements for the work. Although the date for the return of the Unit...
President Murlin's proposal is that when a liberal arts college has reached an enrollment of 500 a new college unit ought to be organized, with a separate faculty and an independent dean. Perhaps is is something akin to the Oxford system which he had in mind, a group of separate colleges with the same general administration, yet each an entity within itself, having its-own faculty and buildings...
...members of the Memorial Society and Shannon Post, members of the faculty, and all other graduates and undergraduates of the University who are able to be present will assemble in front of University Hall at 11.45 A. M. on Memorial Day, May 30. The Field Artillery Unit stationed in the Yard will fire the regular salute to the dead at exactly noon, after which the procession will move to Sanders Theatre...