Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — CHOOLS OLLEGES [ARTICLE]

CHOOLS OLLEGES

Rhodes scholars at Oxford university have come to be known as "Rliodesters. Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Barry, who was with the Russian army iu Manchuria, will be made president of the army war college. Henry F. Shaw of Boston, well known in railway circles for his devotion to the probiStn of balancing the reciprocating parts of locomotives, has presented to Purdue university- a model locomotive embodying bis latest design. Sigmund Neumann, a 19-year-oid school boy. not yet graduated from the gymnasium, is the author of a play call-> ed “Storms," which was" recently successfully produced in the leadiug theater at Frankfort on the Main. Anthony dg Rothschild, youngest son of Leopold de- Rothschild, is head boy at Harrow school, England. Thia if the first time this distinction has fallen to a Jewish lad who has not conformed to the ordinary religious exercises of the school. Free breakfasts are to be furnished to poor children of the Milwaukee public schools. A fund has been raised a«d the Woman's School Alliance hks the work In charge. Children whose parents have tp go to wont without being able to pror vole breakfast for them nre the ones to fcrhom the practice will apply.