Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1913 — STUDENT, AGED 57, IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

STUDENT, AGED 57, IS DEAD

Fails for Hundredth Time to Become Bwlss M. D. at University of Berne. Berne.—The oldest university student in Switzerland, Gottlieb Laederach, died here, at the age of fifty-sev-en, having studied at the University of Berne for 37 years without having taken his medical degree. Laederach entered the university when he was twenty years 'old. He studied assiduously, but, owing to a singular nervous temperament, he could never pass an examination. Under the written and oral tests he became so embarrassed that be always failed. Laederach, however, had an independent Income and tenacity. He determined to pass the examinations if it took a lifetime. * Many of his student friends became professors of medicine at Berne and Laederach attended their lecturee, although he knew as much as they did. Years went by, with the student still striving for his degree. Recently he went into the university examination room for the hundredth time. He was engaged in writing a series of answers to the questions of the examiners when he fell forward on his desk, dead from heart failure.