Word: realgymnasium
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Alfried was ten when he first went through a Krupp steel plant. At 17 he graduated with high grades from the nearby Bredeney Realgymnasium, a month later started work as an apprentice at the Krupp works in Essen. He had to leave Villa Hügel on his motor bike at 6 a.m. to get to the shop in time, once had his name put up on the plant's "lazy list" for being late. After his father decided that he should study steelmaking, he was shipped off to the Munich Polytechnikum -his first departure from home-later finished...
...Hotchkiss and Evans Schools, Mean, Ariz.; Arthur William Marget, Boston Latin, (Price Greenleaf Aid); Samuel Mulson, Passaie High School, N. J., (Harvard Club of New Jersey); Joseph Barin Nathan, Boston Latin; Albert Palmer, Newton High School; Buel Whitting Patch, Exeter; Edmund William Pavensedt, Collegiate School, New York, N. Y., Realgymnasium, Bremen and Pomfret; Francis Underwood Perry, Country Day; Oliver Prescott, Jr., St. George's; George Hugh Reid, Roxbury Latin; Lyell Hale Ritchie, St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; Henry Sadofsky, Boston Latin, (Price Greenleaf Aid); Edgar Scott, Jr., Groton; Edward Wheeler Scripture, Montclair Military Academy, N. J., and Tome...
...four men; New Hampshire has thirteen, far out of proportion to her total enrolment. Nearly all of the men come from the New England states; distant states are practically unrepresented. Mesa, Arizona, sends the one representative of the Far West. Perhaps the most interesting contributor of all is the Realgymnasium of Bremen, Germany. Out of the clouds of war, Germany is the only foreign nation whose scholarship is represented in the list. Even world-strife will not conquer her intellectual supremacy...
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