Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-08
HARVARD, OXFORD AND r-l
WEST POINT IN SCHEME
Must Secure University Degrees Be-
fore He Is Eighteen.
TO BE WARNED OF woMEr
Loses All Of Fortune Should He BE-
come Catholic-Dutfes
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Imposed on Executors.

If Robert St. George Dyren-
forth does the things required of
him by the will of his foster
father, Robert G. Dyrenforth,
which was filed today for probate,
he has busy years ahead of him.
He is to be graduated from the
public high school by the time he
is fourteen years old; he is to
complete full course at Harvard
and receive his. degree before he
is eighteen, to be followed by six
months study of law at Oxford.
Returning to the United States.
he Is to enter and be graduated
from the Military Academy at
West Point, and after the shortest
proper service in the army is to
resign and be thoroughly edu-
Gated in the law" In the mean
time he is to have manual and
athletic training, and each sum-
mer is to spend his vacation in
Europe, the countries to be visit
ed being set forth i'm order i'm the
will. Dancing and music also are
to be taught.
The young man is to be disin-
herited should he become a Cath
olic, and the executors of the will
are charged to guard him from
women"
Col. Dyrenforth. who via; formerly A.
sistant commissioner Of patents, died in
this city last Monday. He had been in
hi-health long time He was a veteran
Of the civil war and gained considerable
distinction.
Several years ago he was elected na-
uonal commander OF the Union Veteran
Union, and while filling that office dis
sensions arose in the organization. Two
factions formed and the affairs Of the
Dyrenforth faction afterward withdrew
from the union and the Organization is
now carried on by the other element.
Col. Dyrenforth became a successful pat
ent attorney after leaving the public
service. His Offices were in the Washing
ton Loan and Trust building.
Instructions for Executors.
Minute details are given in the will for
the guidance of the executors in regu-
latlng the life OF the testators adopted
son. 1t IL set forth that he is to COM
plete the course of the graded schools
SO as to be graduated from the high
school at fourteen; he is to go then to
Harvard for the full course, in order
that he may finish before he is eighteen.
The father expresses the desire that
the boy learn proper manual work as
taught in manual training school, that
he be instructed in athletics and dancing,
and learn music. Beginning with has
twelfth year, annual vacations in Europe
are directed, the countries to be visited
in this order, France, Spain. Italy, Greece
Germany, Denmark and Russia.
For six months after taking his deWree
he Is to study law at Oxford. AT eighteen
years OF age the boy is to enter the
United States Military Academy at West
Point, and after the shortest proper time
after graduation the father desires him
to be thoroughly educated in the law and
then enter upon its practice.
Warning Against Women.
The task of guarding the boy from
women is particularly imposed on the exc
cutors. They are "thoughtfuily and well
to guard my beloved son from women,
ad sensibly. that is. quietly, wradually
and impressively, though to no erratic
extreme, to let him be informed and know
the indirect. artfut and parasitical nature
of most of the unfortunate sex and to care
that he may not marry beneath him"
Should the boy become a Catholic not
only does he lose all the interest in his
fathers estate. but the persons in
whose custody he is given and who are
charged with his education will be de-
prived of the specific beauests made to
that event is to go to the Supreme
Council of the Scottish Rite in this
jurisdiction.
Bequests Final at Twenty-Eight.
Pending the sale OF certain property
the boy is to have the income from the
entire estate until he attains the age
of twenty-eight years. when the be-
quests to him become absolute. From
the proceeds of the sale $4,000 is to be
paid to William III. Dyrenforth of Chi
cago, Ill, for his past and future care
of the boy, Robert, and in lieu Of COM
missions as trustee; $500 to Harold
Dyrenforth of Chicago in lieu OF rec
ompense for similar services. Other
bequests include $1,000 to Mary r. Dy-
renforth. $4,000 to Anna l. Berry of
N. Y, and $4,000 to Lewis
F. Dyrenforth Of Chicago.
Should Robert die before reaching the
age OF twenty-eight years without becom-
ing a Catholic the estate descends to