The Belgian hostel is well advanced. Other countries, such as the United States, Brazil and Holland, have taken options for sites on which to erect their own houses.
England is about to make a move ip the same direction by creating 2 British Institute comprising a house in the Cité Universitaire, and teaching departments in other parts of the City. A meeting with the object of putting the idea into practice and raising funds is to held next week at the Mansion House.
In the course of four or five years the Cité Universitaire will be a community of about 3,000 foreign and 1,000 French students who will enjoy.
common intellectual life under the most advantageous material conditions. The Cité will have its own playgrounds, ce-operative restaurants, laundries and libraries. The Canadian hostel is a square three-storey building with two low wings above each of which is a pergola. It contains 45 bedrooms and dressing-rooms, a fine library and reading-room and a large hall. The house is not Inrge enough to accommodate one-fifth of the number of young Canadians who study n Paris. It will no doubt be reserved for scholarship winners a other members of the scholastic lite, who, when they have settled down in Various parts of Canada, will help to create an atmosphere of good understanding between the two races which make up the greater part of the population of the Dominion,
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