Porto Ricans Coming Here

There will be a large number of Puerto Ricans at the University this year. Mr. Maerlceno Pesquera, who has only been in the United States for two weeks, arrived in Ann Arbor Monday. He is a cousin of Estraban Goenago, whom Regent Barbour accompanied to Ann Arbor a number of weeks ago.

Mr. Pesquera is quite young, but one of the best educated Puerto Ricans here. His father for a number of years has been treasurer of the island and has given his son every possible advantage. He says that it is the ambition of every young Puerto Rican to come to the States and get a university training. A number of years ago the young men were sent to Spain, as the preparatory course in Puerto Rico admitted its graduates to any university in that country, but since English has been put into the schools and the new high school is in progress at San Juan the young men come to the States. Mr. Pesquera's education was such that he was admitted to the medical department without examinations.

The young women of Puerto Rico pursue the same studies as the young men and are equally as bright, but few of them care to go further than the high school. Mr. Goenago's sister is in Detroit, and may attend the University, but she is an exceptional young woman. As soon as they finish their high school course they learn embroidery, music, painting and have private tutors in their homes and most of them marry, as Mr. Pesquera says they have very few old maids in his country, but he has already learned that in the States there are lots of them.

President Angeli is very much interested in the advancement and progress these young men make as he went up to a crowd of them who were talking Spanish and requested them for their own sake to speak English. The professors say that as a rule they are exceptionally bright and can learn their lessons in two-thirds the time our Americans can.