Show RUSSIAN BARON VISITS TO I 1 a SCHOOLS 0 V the schools of price hid a distinguished guis heit visitor monday in the person of baron kei vick a member of the russian nobility who is doing research ork on behalf of bis his government ment ho ile rn made ide a careful survey of the schools of the city and gave an interesting address to the tho pupils of the high school on his own country and its ite schools and other tea fea tures AC according Lording to tho biron russia has excellent schools of higher learn ing for those who can afford to at tend but is seriously handicapped in her elementary schools they aro are poorly equipped for their work and the results ure are far from satisfactory batis factory there is some discrepancy between the various stories told by the baron to citizens of price as to how bow he came to undertake his present work to one lie he stated that he was A member of a wealthy family prevented from going to war by a deformity and that he be had undertaken this research work on his own initiative and at his own expense that ho he might present to his government a comprehensive plan by which tho the school system might be greatly improved at the end of the war to others ho he stated that he was one of several chosen by the government to sand five years in studying the school systems of other lands that the tho government was paying ha his exo expenses and that he be had already consumed three years and three months of his time ho was highly educated an interesting conversationalist tion alist and many citizens citi of f trice jl rice enjoyed talking to him while he herci rj 1 1 a 0 J |