Education: Again, Rockefeller

Since the War, a community called University City has sprung up on the site of the old defensive walls of Paris. Senator André d'Honnorat gave it form and became its president. France, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, the U. S. and other countries built houses there for students. What was needed was a central administration building. Last fortnight, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. contributed $2,000,000 for that purpose. He had looked into University City last summer and Senator d'Honnorat had come to the U. S. last winter to study university methods.

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