The American University Union
The following extract from a letter by Ernest B. Watson '02 relative to the work of the American University Union in Paris will be of interest to the readers of the MAGAZINE.
"It is perhaps not easy for you in America to realize what a place like the Union means to a College man on leave in Paris. It is the one place where he can go and find himself in his own environment. Excellent as is the work of the Y. M. C. A. in founding hotels for men and officers, and of other institutions in providing reading-rooms, entertainments, etc., the Union remains unique in that it affords a genuine college atmosphere, and hence, I believe, supplies those reminders of a man's worth which do most to keep him true to his calling as an educated man.
"Furthermore, the war is young. One can hardly foresee what part the Union will have in events to come. Just now, in the pressure of the present crisis, hardly any permissions' are granted for Paris. In times of calm, however, and perhaps during long periods of negotiation and demobilization, the Union is likely to mean far more to our fighting men than it does at present."
