Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — INTERESTING STUDENTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING STUDENTS

Many Filipinos Placed in American Schools by Uncle Sam. A great deal of interest is being 6hown regarding the new pupils Undo Sam has brought from the Philippine Islands and placed in various schools of this country. More than 100 Filipinos were selected by the government to come to this country and receive an education at the public expense, with a view to their returning to the islands and spreading the light of knowledge among their relatives and associates. Most of the contingent are in high schools under the care of the. War Department. From this number six of the brightest, four boys and two girls, were placed in the Drexel Institute and the School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum, both of Philadelphia, the boys being in the latter school. One of the girls will study domestic science, the other, after a year at Drexel, will take a course at the Women’s Medical College. Of the four boys, one will study architecture, two painting, and the fourth lithographic art. The four boys are of various grades of Intelligence. At least one Is fully the equal, if not the superior, In mental force to the average American boy student at the school. The others are well able to hold their own in the classes. They are not all shy, but move among their fellow students with a modest air that is entirely devoid of self-consciousness. They have necessarily attracted a great deal of attention and can scarcely walk through the corridors of the School of Industrial Art, where nearly 1,200 students are enrolled, without causing heads to turn and whispered explanations to be made. It troubles the four black-haired boys not at all. They behave like Chesterfields at all times, and are not a bit suggestive of the

“new caught sullen peoples” of Kipling’s verse. Perhaps the most interesting of the' Philadelphia sextet are the two girls, each about 16 years old. They are very small, although they dress and act like full-grown women. In short dresses they would easily pass for girls of 10 or 12, so far as appearance goes. As they wander through the corridors of the Drexel they look like dark-eyed, swarthy pygmies beside the strapping American girls who are studying there. They show little disposition to make friends with the other pupils and are very stndlons. That each of Uncle Sam’s new pupils has the typical features of the race may be seen by a study of the group shown in the accompanying illustration, which shows six young men who are attending the State Normal and Training School at Oswego, N. Y., to fit themselves' for becoming teachers in their native land.

AN INTERESTING GROUP OF FILIPINO STUDENTS.