Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1918 — HERE IS “COLLEGEIST” PRIVATE IN U. S. ARMY [ARTICLE]

HERE IS “COLLEGEIST” PRIVATE IN U. S. ARMY

San Antonio, Tex.—The best educated man in the southern department of the army has been found in Private George B. L. Thornton, He was born in England, but now is an American citizen and enlisted man in the quartermaster’s service. Here is his collegiate education: One year in College St. Servals, Liege, Belgium ; one year in College St. Michael, Fribourg, Switzerland; four years in St. Bede college, Manchester, England; four years to graduation from the University of Oxford. He is getting S3O a month.