JEANROY VINDICATES PARISIAN LANDLORDS

"My impressions of America so far include only two or three restaurants and enormous drifts of snow," said Professor Alfred Jeanroy when asked by a CRIMSON reporter for his first impressions of the country. He is visiting as an exchange professor from France.

"In the short space of time I have been here, I have been taken about from one strange place to another without any chance to get oriented. I am not very familiar with your country or your language yet and so I am waiting for a little of the snow to disappear before I begin wandering about by myself. Only when one knows the language well, can one wander in safety."

Professor Jeanroy was much perturbed when the reporter expressed the opinion, now fairly current among undergraduates, that for the average American student to obtain lodgings in Paris while studying there was nearly impossible unless unlimited funds were at his disposal.

Student Barracks Being Built

"It is not true," said Professor Jeanroy, "that every American student in Paris has to be a millionaire. Since the war many Americans have come to Paris to throw money wildly away. All Parisian sellers and landlords therefore look on Americans as fair game with the theory that whatever they don't get out of them some one else will.

"Any American student who wishes to live inexpensively in Paris can do so if he has a friend in Paris who can secure rooms for him in advance. Two hundred francs a month is not an exorbitant price to pay for good rooms and if one goes about it the right way, the rooms can be obtained for that price. The French government is now erecting barracks for French students in the south of Paris and it is possible that some of them will be available for foreign students in the summer. Certainly there is an ever increasing number of American students in Paris every summer so one needn't be afraid of the stories that are told about high prices. As more students are exchanged between the American and French universities, so better feeling will prevail between the two countries. You know even though the French often try to overcharge Americans they usually prefer them to English. You Americans are so likely to be cordial and friendly, the English are sometimes a little stiff and 'sec.'"