Treasure Chest Thursday: Walter Pape's 1916 German Test

One of the current owners of the house my great-grandfather, John Pape (1851-1945), built and lived in from at least 1882 to at least 1925, at 1043 Sherman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois, contacted me a couple months ago, and she told me she'd found a few items related to our family in the house.  Some of the items were "buried in attic insulation" and are in pretty bad shape, but this one is pretty whole.

The name in the upper right corner is Walter R. (should be F.) Pape, and the date is May 23, 1916.  Walter would have been 15, probably almost 16, and likely in high school (but I'm not sure which one).  It's apparently a German test - and he didn't do very well on it!

Walter's draft registration card from September 1918 indicates he was a student at Northwestern at that point.  He enlisted three weeks later (just a month before the war ended), and based on the 1940 census, he never went back to college.


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