New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-26
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aahsres - utterly l9a9-l liilhla wltR LAgHisi.,
pFpgFesi, Independence At aHF kiah, haga. va.
only maszled mas virtually daairfnl Va,
rress; having lakan ofief Cos tho ouppfss
sion OF all frank criticism oF protest
It has nav turned It's attention. "a
tho educational systen, AID has undertaken 10
deprive the people of all capacity for agitation aud
conspiracy by reducing the institutions Of learning
10 nero gsncies of The pocs and hnnting grounds
for thor swarnng spies. "StepnIaS," in T1
Loadoa Tmes. gives full account OF the tenor aud
effect of tho now university regulation which ~
Katkon has at last succeeded in getting promal.
gated. In the first place. all the univcrsitsi
are to be under tho supervision OF tho
police. Each will have body Of special police
supported from its funds and controlled By an
inspector entirely Independent of the
rector and faculty. Really tho professors
themselves will be watched as closely
as the students and the latter will be perpetually
nndsr surveillance. This. however, is only .
beginning. The rsctors arc to be appointed by tho
Minister, and therefore must inevitably b,
his creatures. They are given arbitrary control
over the faculty, ald aro evca authorized to ex-
cecd their powers In emergencies. pretcnce II
progress il made by introducing the Ger nan system
of pricat-i)csgs Or tutors. bat m, nav Nations
put the prirat-dDc'nts completely in the power Of
the Government. and thus prepare tho way
for tho rapid elimination of all the
better class of teachers. and the substitution OF
class Of syc0phants and incapables whose recon-
mcndatiOn will be their readiness TO carry ont
every suppresslvc governmental edict.
There can be no mistake about the purpose OF tho
| new university regulations IL rs plain that they
mark tho extinction of all true learning In Russia
and that the desperate bureaucracy having utterly
| failed to put down Nhlism by tho methods employed
| IN progressive countries In, decided 10 drug tho
Russian people into apathy by deliberately eS-
ending them from the light and air Of molera
civilization Deprived of free press. their nnyer
stiles rendered incapable OF bcstowing n liberal
education. the professors made to give way 10 Gov.
cnmcnt tools. tho feet of the students logged by
arnicq of spie,. the tutors degraded by IN Official
censorship. all that can however indirectly. sag
gest freedom and discomfort with n Government 80
bad that II dare not face comparison with any
other cxtant carefully put ont OF sight !,
hoped that In a fow y0ars mcdipyal stolidily and
Indifference will bc reached aud Nihiiism perish
OF hamilton.
Bat unless history hls boon written 10 no purpose.
this policy will fail. Nhlli'm. tho more vigorously
IL il reprcsgod will flourish the more rankly nnicr-
| ground. And tho Oay effect of the new rcgila-
uons viii probably be- 20 create false security ia
the official mind. and ~ ull II into coniidence
from which IT will be finally driven by an expo.
sion which will scatter the ropressve system 10 tho
four Winds together with the wreck of the abuses
| 1t was meant to shelter.