Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-15
YANKS IN TOULOUSE SCHOOL
LEARNED FRENCH IDEALS
Fifteen Hundred H.
-Four Months the University q
France, Bring
of French Education
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the ideals of France,
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munity would be an interpreter of
the ideals of France.
Served ThPeefOld Purpose.
Thus the object of the school de-
tachment at Toulouse was three
fold: Military, in preserving the
morale of the troops during a diff
cult period of waiting; civil, in pre-
pairing them to be broader and more
intelligent American citizens: and
political, in Strengthening the
friendship between this Nation and
France.
Toulouse is situated upon the
Garonne River, too shallow itself
to be navisable, but supplying the
water for lateral canal whose
banks are lined with warehouses
and broad quais, parts of which are
always covered with huge wine
casks. Toulouse has a population
of "a million. and numbers among
its important industries a tobacco
factory and a large national pow
der plant. 1t has none of the bus
tling, busy air, nothing of the citi-
fed appearance which marks Bor-
! deauX, however. 1t is a town of
picturesque country markets and
fairs, of gay cafes and gardens that
are green the year round The uni
forms of soldiers from it's two large
military barracks are to be seen at
all times on the broad boulevards OF
in the parks and public gardens.
The Rosy City.
Toulouse has been called the "Ville
Rose" a name it takes from the
rosy color of the bricks from which
practically all the buildings in the
city are constructed, stone being
! scarce in the region and wood hav-
/ ing been for long time too pre-
cious to be used except in coniunc-
! tion with other materials. Tou-
! louise is also being called Tou.
. louise of the Saints, from the manN
! churches, each dedicated to some
I patron saint. A number of these
churches have disappeared, leaving
| only their names as the names ot
streets where they used to stand. sc
| that this second name is not so com.
/ monty used as it was at one time
! There is still the cathedral, st, Eft
| iennes, built during a transition
period of architecture in France sc
! that the nave, the more ancient
! part of the church, is Romanesque
and the choir is Gothic: there is
still st. Sernin, too, the finest speci,
men of Romanesque in all the world
with its octagonal tower rising
story on story above the city.
! The buildings of the university
are scattered, the faculties OF
; science and medicine being on the
Alice st. Michel among the public
gardens at one end of town, and the
| faculties of law and letters being in
! the heart of the business district
| just three blocks from the Place du
| Capitole, the center of the town, a
broad cement-paved market square
! faced on two sides by cafes and or
third by the capitole or city hall
/ one of the show buildings of the
! town. There is also school oi
| beaus arts and a conservatory oil
music in the city itself, one not fal
from the capitole and the other on
/ the bank of the Garonne. Tn all
, these faculties and schools, as well
as in the theological seminary in a
little town nearby, there were Amer
: lean students during the months OF
March, April. May and June OF this
year,