Business School Monopolizes Attention of Andre Maurois, Author of "Ariel"--Admires Informality of Life at Harvard

"I should like very much to see a University such as this in France", remarked Andre Maurois recently to a CRIMSON reporter in the course of an informal interview while he was being conducted about the University. "The seclusion and informality of the life at Harvard as it appears to me are far more conducive to study and to the forming of valuable friendships than is the extremely isolated and citified life at the Sorbonne and our other Universities.

"We are, however, now materializing a scheme," declared M. Maurois, "modelled on your colleges and the English ones. This is the Cite Universitaire, or 'university town', an adjunct to the Sorbonne in the form of dormifories, clubhouses, and campus, now being constructed on the outskirts of Paris."

M. Maurois, the author of "Ariel, on la Vie de Shelley" and the recent "Vie de Disraeli", was more inclined to talk about his impressions of Harvard than of himself and his writings. He spent some time strolling through the Yard, declaring himself fascinated by the old buildings and the air of quiet which pervaded the lawns and paths. He evinced a keen interest in the Fogg Museum, and also praised the Widener Library for the size and magnificence of its collection. It was the Business School, however, which most attracted M. Maurois' attention. Having been a wool manufacturer himself until he took up writing ten years ago, he could intimately appreciate the facilities offered at the splendid new Baker Foundation.