Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrival in France the Reconstruction Unit, which is composed of more than fifty students from various American colleges, will start a three-months' program in that part of the devastated regions lying between Rheims and Verdun, and will return to this country about the middle of September. 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, and to help in the alteration, improvement, and rectification of town plans. Similar to the scheme adopted last summer by the University...
...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 to the United States has not yet been definitely settled, it is expected that some of the men will be back...
...from the Bible and scenes in the life of the pilgrims at Lourdes. Belonging to this latter group are "La Miraculee" and "La Communion des Malades", remarkable for their deep and intense feeling. One of the artist's fine compositions that appeared during the war is shown, "La Borne" (Verdun...
...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...
...Reconstruction Unit will probably leave this country about June 28, and on arriving in France will start a three-months' program of work in that part of the devastated regions lying between Rheims and Verdun. The members of the Unit will assist in the reconstruction of towns and villages in the areas ruined by the German invasion. Pinon, a town which is being rebuilt this summer by the French Government, will serve as a model for other reconstruction work...