Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1902 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LABOR FEDERATION ACTS. Issues a General Appeal for Aid for Miners. The American Federation of Labor, through its executive council, has issued an address to the public, appealing for financial and moral aid for the striking anthracite miners and denouncing the attitude of the mine owners, on whom, the appeal says, must rest the responsibility for the hardships resulting from the coal famine. fcnooKjr (OLLEGES Dr. Francis L. Patton, former president of Princeton University, has been unanimously chosen president of Princeton Theological Seminary. Andrew W. Edson, the noted educator, was chosen by the New York board of education to succeed John Jasper as superintendent of public schools. Of the 300 candidates recently examined for the- cadetships nt the Naval Academy about one-half failed, many of them dropping out after the first day's questions. Harvard College, in a recent circular, has formally offered the “A. B.” degree 'n a three-year course, beginning with the class entering in 1905. Hitherto no first-class college has adopted this policy. Takahashi Glanya of Tokio, Japan, has won high honors at Wesleyan University, having graduated at the head of bls class in the law department, with markings of 98. 98 and 99 in three branches. Principal McAndrew, who has in chntge the eatalilinliment this fall of a girl*' technical high sebooj in New York City, has decided to add to the other courses planned n miniature department store, in which girls who desire it will be trained for saleswomen. A number of store managers have declared they will take these girl* in preference to all others.