Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — Rensselaer Well Represented In Colleges This Year. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Well Represented In Colleges This Year.

The belief in the value of education and in the necessity of special training is surely well founded and is making itself more manifest as each year goes by. Each year marks expansion in the various colleges and universities throughout the United States necessitated by the decided increase in enrollments. A great per cent of the college attendance is furnished by the smaller towns and cities. In this respect Rensselaer has always been well represented In the. colleges. This year twenty-seven young men and women will be in colleges tor universities, which, is probably the largest number that has ever been jn attendance from here at any one time. Of this number five will graduate at the end of the coming school »year. Seven of the members of the 1912 graduating class will go to college this year. They are as follows: Cope Hanley, law, Illinois University. Alfred Thompson, liberal arts, University of Michigan. Vergil Robinson, chemical engineering, Purdue. * Edward Parkison, agricultural, Ames,- la. John Groom, pharmacy, Purdue. Bernice Rhoads, normal course, Terre Haute. Ethel Davis, music and art, DePauw. Mae Clark, domestic science, Rockford Girls’ College, Rockford, 111. Walter Lutz, agriculture, Purdue. Walter English, mechanical engineering, Purdue. George Long, pharmacy 1 , Illinois School of Pharmacy, Chicago. Wade Laßue, dentistry, Indiana Dental College, Indianapolis. Emma Tanner, liberal arts, Taylor University, Upland, Ind. Of the remaining fifteen, none will graduate this year: Fay Clarke, agriculture, Purdue. Nell Meyers, liberal arts, DePauw. Clarence Smith, civil engineering, Purdue. John Knox, pharmacy, Illinois University. Helen Murray, domestic science, Wisconsin University. Jane Moody will attend a college at Wichita, Kansas. Marceline Roberts, liberal arts, Miama University. Martha Long, liberal arts, Western Girls’ College. Lucy Healy, music, St. Elizabeth’s Institute, St. Louis, Mo. Martha Ramp, music, St. Elizabeth’s Institute, St. Louis, Mo. Ruth Harper, domestic science, Hillsdale, Mich. Harriett Shedd, liberal arts, Northwestern University. Leonard Elder, liberal arts, Franklin. Jay Nowels, liberal arts, Hanover College. Floyd Meyers, who has been attending Franklin College, will probably study law at the University of Colorado. Jame 3 Ellis, liberal arts, University of Virginia.