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...elicit the warmest praise from the French architects and government officials under whom they worked. In the Department of the Meuse the students completed the surveys of four villages, Etain, Belleville, Vacherauville, and Clermonten-Argonne, and of one in the Aisne, as well as partly surveying the city of Verdun. The New York Herald, Paris edition, quotes the head engineer of Verdun as saying, "No surveyors ever in my employ have done such accurate or such rapid work as the American students...
Besides these, churches were designed for Verdun Iloureilles, and Bautheville, all in the Department of the Meuse. Plans for a club for Crouy (Aisne), a laundry for Soissons, and a farm for the village of Beine were also drawn...
...Reconstruction Unit arrived in Paris on July 1 and was entertained there by the French Government. About a week later active work began when the fifty men were divided into three parties sent respectively to Rheims, Soisson, and Verdun. From these centers small parties of not more than three or four men were sent to smaller towns which had been partially or entirely destroyed in the year...
...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...