Word: cit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the American Committee of the Cité Universitaire in Paris acknowledged a gift of $25,000 from rich Bernard Mannes Baruch of Manhattan. Mr. Baruch's money will provide for a room in which, if he so desires, will be placed a tablet with his name engraved thereon. Should he further desire, Banker Baruch could have ten rooms in the University, each inscribed with his name, as each $2,500 is entitled to a tablet. Mr. Baruch, however, did not ask for this, and the Committee, passing over the point, reported that...
...Cité Universitaire, on the outskirts of Paris, signals the decline and fall of Bohemianism among Paris students. For years students had lived, cribbed, confined, in unhealthy rooms in the Latin Quarter...
Recently the Cité Universitaire received $2,000,000 from John Davison Rockefeller Jr. with which will be built a large central building (TIME...
...public auditorium of which Portland, Ore., is proud, Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten last week led his symphony orchestra through an orgy of fantasy. A native of Portland, Dent Mowrey, had studied music in Paris, and in dreamy moments had idled over the lle de la Cité, whereon is the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Student Mowrey would enter the felted front doors, would sniff at the dank air, would think he could hear the paint cracking on the pictures. Outdoors, on the grey square, he would crane his head up at the rain-spouts, which old artisans had carved...