The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
WENT TO FIGHT FOR The LAD|
Many YankS Stay in Europe Governors Legislature Ca
Now To Study. just for Them
$50 of Thirty-Fifth Men in But SoOns May Take Up
European Schools. Matters at Session.
PARIS SCHOOLS ARE POPULAR new BANK BILL is LII
Literature, Art and Medicine SaIina Failure UndOub
Courses Are Speciates. Would Be Given Notice
Two TOpekans at University of Session of Only One Days
Dion, One at Bordeaux. alton Is Unlikely.
Many Yanks Stay in Europe
Now To Study.
$50 of Thirty-Fifth Men in
European Schools.
PARIS SCHOOLS ARE POPULAR
Literature, Art and Medicine
Courses Are SpecialtieS.
Two TOpekans at University of
Dion, One at Bordeaux.

While most of the combat divisions
have returned to the United States,
several thousand officers and men of
these units are still in France and
Great Britain attending some of the
oldest universities and colleges of the
world. One hundred and fifty men
of the 35th division are going to
school in Europe now.
These men are taking courses of
study ranging from three to six
months. and are specializing in lines
which they have chosen. The larger
per cent are in France. because the
French government generously turned
over as many Of schools as possible.
Study Art in Paris.
Probably the most famous school in
France is Sorbonne university, Paris,
where a number of Kansas men are
studying art, literature and medicine.
Lieut.. Dana Jackson, formerly of To-
peka, is taking a special course IN
medicine there. Felix Kubicki, of
Leavenworth, formerly an artist on
the Kansas City Journal and the pos
SCISSOR of a wound stripe won in the
Argonne. is at the art school of this
university. Carl V. johnson, a young
Topeka architect, is a student at
Beaux-Arts. Paris.
Harry Robbins and Harry Davis, of
Topeka, are attending medical schools
in France. Robbins at at the Uni
versfty of Dijon and Davis at the Uni
versity of Bordeaux. Other French
colleges which now have American
students include the Universities of
Poitiers, Montpelier, Grenoble and
Nancy. The British universities in
clude Trinity college, Dublin, the Uni
versity of Edinburgh, oxford, Cam
London.
Corp. John n. PAYNE OF wichita,
formerly Of Battery F and headquar-
ters company. 130th field artillery. is
a student at the University of Poitiers.
which is one of the oldest and most
famous institutions of higher learning
in Europe. There are nearly two
hundred Yanks at Poitiers. and they
are taking literature, French, history,
science and other subjects.
Payne Writes of Work.
In a letter to a Topeka friend Cor
poral Payne says:
zone of the fine features of the uni
versity is the French Students club.
This club has very kindly turned over
its club rooms and privileges to the
Yanks, and we are enabled to frater-
nize with the French students and en-
Joy social good times that we would
not otherwise have.
I'VE are living where we please, in
asmuch as the government is allowing
us 50 a day for rations, and dollar a
day for room. Most of us have chosen
to be with private families for several
reasons. 1t adds to the home touch
which we SO badly need, and it gives
us the added opportunity of polishing
up our French"
Corporal Payne adds that the lab
oratories and scientific research bu-
reaus have been turned over to the
Yanks. The instructors in most
branches are American educators i'm
ported for this purpose. Nearly all
of the students are taking French, I'M
der native instructors, and the prog
ress along all lines is said to be re-
markable.
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