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THE RED AND BLACK
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Auguste V. Desclos Describes
t( University Life in Paris”
Tracing the development of the
University of Paris from the date of
its foundation up to the present day,
enumerating its problems and vicis
situdes, and dwelling on the student
life throughout the period of devel
opment, Auguste V. Desclos, gradu
ate of the University of Paris and a
student of international relations,
addressed the student body of the
University of Georgia in the chapel
Monday morning, as the first of the
Barrow Foundation lecturers for this
year.
“The University of Paris was the
foundation upon which all the Euro-
ean colleges were based,” stated M.
Desclos. Under the cloister of the
cathedral of Notre Dame was found
ed the first public school, and in the
monasteries of France were started
the first public school systems.
Teachers held their classes out in the
open and the students sat around on
bundles of straw. These schools be
gan to attract students, not only
from all France but from all Chris
tendom, and what is now known as
the Latin quarter began to arise.
Up to this time, said M. Desclos,
the schools had been entirely under
the jurisdiction of the church, and
the bishop was the rector of the
school. Additional students com
pelled the school to expand, and part
of it moved across the Seine, where
it was less under the supervision of
the bishop. “This move,” the speak
er continued, “led to a greater free
dom and finally to the founding of
the University.”
The manner of living was vastly
different for the student of the early
days of the University than it is at
present, continued M. Desclos, in de
scribing how the students begged
and robbed to obtain food and lodg
ing. No dormitories nor dining
halls were sustained by the Univer
sity and the students who could not
afford to live in the inns were forced
to questionable means of existence.
No distinction of race or nationality
was made at the University, and the
speaker continued by saying, "the
Latin quarter, inhabited by 25,000
students, was in itself a great cos
mopolitan city.”
“When an American student goes
to the University of Paris he finds
a great difference to his own Alma
Mater,” declared the speaker, in de
scribing the technical departments
in the curriculum of the University.
The aim of the University of Paris
is not to teach vocations, but to train
students to think in clear and philo
sophical terms. There is no discrim
ination between the sexes.
The expense of a six years course
in medicine would cost a student only
$78, asserted the speaker in giving
the democratic qualifications of the
University of Paris, and no entrance
requirement is made other than the
ability to read and write, and to
think intelligently. Students from
other nations are placed in the same
classes they would be in a college in
their own country.
“The University of Paris is re
verting to its old position of being
the great international university of
the world,” declared M. Desclos, de
scribing the Latin quarter of Paris,
which he says, is given a picturesque
appearance by students from all na
tions. The registration of 12,000
students before the World War has
risen to a present height of 28,000,
and modern dormitory facilities are
being innovated, withj dormitories
for seven nations already in use.
The American dormitory, which will
accommodate 300 students, will be
completed early this spring.
M. Desclos concluded by emphasiz
ing the place the University of Paris
plays in international relations.
"The Universty of Paris is very con
scious of its opportunity, of its duty,
in bringing cordial relations be
tween the nations of the world,” he
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“Wings” at Palace
For Three Days
"Wings,” the biggest musical
sound picture this year, according to
the Palace management, with Clara
Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen,
and Cary Cooper, will be the feature
attraction of the Palace theatre next
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Other pictures scheduled for next
week are:
Thursday and Friday
John Barrymore and Camilla
Horn in the musical sound romance,
“The Tempest;” Vitaphone vaude
ville, “The Freeman Sisters, the Sun
shine Spreaders.”
Saturday
Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mc-
Kaill in “The Water Front:" Com
edy “The Beach Club.”
LOST—Gold football. Letter “D”
on front with Darlington engraved
beneath. Arrington engraved on
back. Finder return to Allison Ar
rington, Chi Phi House. Reward.
said, and extended an invitation to
Georgia students to attend, assuring
them of their cordial reception in
France.
Every Student Needs a Typewriter
See the latest model CORONA on display at our store
Six Colors of Duco Finish
No extra charge
Terms as low as $5.00 per month
—new and used Typewriters.
the McGregor company
321 Clayton St., Athens, Ga.
EDWARD EDRINGTON, Student Representative
Care of Lumi kin Law School
but a mosquito
T H E Panama Canal diggers had
engineering brains and money
aplenty. But they were blocked by the
malaria and yellow-fever bearing mosqui-
toec, which killed men by thousands.
Then Gorgas stamped out the mos
quito. The fever was conquered. The
Canal was completed.
The importance of little things is rec
ognized in the telephone industry too.
blocked the way
Effective service to the public is possible
only when every step from purchase of
raw materia! to the operator V'Number,
please” has been cared for.
This is work for men who can sense
the relations between seemingly unre
lated factors, men with the vision to see
a possible mountain-barrier in a mole
hill— and with the resourcefulness
to surmount it.
BELL SYSTEM
xA Hdtion-toidt ijn/m if I 8,500,000 tnter-tonntding tiiifhonn
“OUR PIONEERING WORK HAS JUST BEGUN”
