EAST END WRANGLER.
Mr. Soliar Brodctsky, tho poor Russian Jowish boy who was brought by 1,.? father to London eighteen >cars ago and at tho ago of twenty i.us bracketed Sunor Wrangler, was, on 6th Fcbiiiury awarded the Isaac Newton studentship at Cambridge. Tonnblo for throe jeais and worth about £200 a year, it is, meant for tho cncouroKmnont of attrononiy nnd physical optics. Mr. Brodctsky ro&e from tho Jews' Free School in Mile Knd, states tho Dnily Mail, by tho aid of the open scholarships ho gained. Whon ho was. Senior Wrangler in 1908 he hold four of these at Cambridge, producing about £250 a j'ear, and having then four years to run. It was at the request of his father, an itinerant haberdasher, who taught him his CiTft mathematics, that ho took up the study of astronomy.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 13
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