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were made to open a club in Paris for their accomodation. Technology (my own M.I.T.) was one of the leaders of the movement to establish headquarters, and Mr. Van [[strikethrough]] Rensellar [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Rensselaer]] Lansingh ('98) was good enough to leave his home and business to help the gathering of what was necessary. He knew Paris exceedingly well, therefore, and before, and ^[[meeting him at the Tech Union]] he gave me the benefit of much of his knowledge. Lately he is to be replaced by another Tech man (who became an Episcopalian minister), the Rev. Geo. C. Gibbs - as fine a man ^[[as]] I have ever been with and who will always henceforth be "the dom'nie" to me. And then there was Mr. W. Wallace Irwin who also directed affairs at the American University Union in the quarters of the Royal Palace Hotel. This latter gentleman [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] ^[[is]] a man of the most generous talents. He has been a rancher, sailor, newspaperman, cowboy and traveled far and wide. He knows Paris like a book - the old parts of the city with  its references to history. He knows French