Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1915 — VIENNA PROFESSOR VISITS ST. JOSEPH’S [ARTICLE]

VIENNA PROFESSOR VISITS ST. JOSEPH’S

Prof. Sigmund Mueller Making Study of American Institutions—Can -Not Return Home, • Proff Sigmund. Mueller, an instructor in psychology and chemistry in the University of Vienna, Austria, visited St. Joseph’s College over night. He was accompanied here by Father Seiferle, chaplain of Alexian Brothers hospital in Chicago. Prof. Mueller came from Vienna last summer to attend, the international congress of education in Philadelphia. Owing to the war interfering with so many coming from the foreign colleges the congress was abandoned. Prof. Mueller has since then been visiting numerous educational institutions in this country and preparing to write a book about the colleges he visits. He is also a lecturer and procures pictures in many cities and towns to be used in illustrating his talks. Mueller speaks but little English. He has been arrested a number of times as a spy but has credentials that show him to be authorized tn his quests for information by the College of Vienna., He was very favorably impressed with Rensselaer and with St. Joseph’s College and in a local postcard store purchased a number of views to be used in h’is lectures.