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...only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American schools it is stopped at fourteen. There is in Germany a co-operative arrangement between the educational department and the manufacturing and business interests, by virtue of which the education of boys and girls is continued along industrial lines after they leave the schools. The rules of labor unions in this country make any such arrangement...
...John S. Wise described his "Recollections of Fourteen Presidents" in the Living Room of the Union last evening. His anecdotes, reaching back to boyhood times, were of unusual interest...
...John s. Wise will speak on "Recollections of Fourteen Presidents" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock...
...left the Virginia Military Institute in 1864 and enlisted in the Confederate Army where he served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender. He was the bearer of the last despatch from the general to Jefferson Davis. In 1867 he received his degree from the University of Virginia; fourteen years later he was appointed United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia, by President Arthur, and was also elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket as representative at large. After his defeat in the election for governor of the state in 1885, he moved...
...undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender in 1865. He carried the last message from Lee to President Davis. After the war, Mr. Wise returned to the University and was graduated in 1867. Fourteen years later he was elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket, soon after he ran for governor, but was defeated. Since 1885 he has been engaged in the practice of law in New York and has written books on several subjects...