New-York tribune., 1886-08-22
HOMEN IN GERMANY.
YOUNG GIRL IN BERLIN UNIvERsIrY-GERMAN
TYPES.

YOUNG GIRL IN B1RLIN UNIvERsIrY-GERMAS
TYPES.
FRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUNE
BERLIN, Aug g.
Women it is we'll known, excluded from the
colleges and universities Of the German Empire Both
men and women look with derison and disdan upon
the girl aspirant to academical bonors They do not
consider women capable of advanced training and
the bitterest opponents of coeducation Girls
schools are laughably elementary. History and
languages, it is true they have at their tongues
end but that is all. The " three RS form the
Rubicon of their progress Young men are taught
from tie very cradle to say ," Thank God that was
born q man." Nursed with such ideas. growing up
under snch opinions it will be easy to fancy the excite
ment caused among them by the appearance Of
young English lady in the chemical lecture Of the
celebrated Professor hoffman,, few days ago. The
German students have peculiar way Of expressing
interest, satisfaction. admiration or Pleasures
boisterous stamping of the feet But it is reward
coveted by the obsequious professor and the only
measure OF bis popularity. This peculiar applause
greeted the feminine candidate she took her seat
~ in elegant costume and hat" it is sad-on the
be nch fronting the decent In the laboratory where
she has begun work, she is treated with great
Difference. escaping too, the fines levied upon the
nadvertencies of her masculine mates. She has. of
course not matrculated. but received permission
from HIS Magnfcence." the rector, to attend tine
courses as hospes." 1t was difficult to obtain even
that privilege in conservative Berlin and only
accomplished by dint of powerful letters from Cam
bridge. where the young lady is "a tutor in Newnham
College, A German lady Of the emancipated school
attempted to brave public opinion few years ago
and attend tho lectures of Professor Du Bois Ray
mond. She was so annoyed by ogling students, who
one and all fixed their mOnoces on her classical
features and let the words Of the teacher go by un-
needed that she had to be screened from their mperti
nencs and finally leave the room. A rather pathetic
story is told of a woman IN Leipzig who tried to
overcome the laws. She was poor girl and disguised
a. Young man entered the Varsity I" with donors.
and took her place in the laboratory as student OF
chemistry. Sne applied herself assiduOusy during
three years. and distinguished herself beyond her
fellows. Her popularity was great, though she was
innocently called the lady because of her feminine
appearance-the students little dreaming how near
the truth they came. But her sex was discovered on
the day OF her final examination, and despite prayers
and entreaties she was not allowed TO graduate
Her expenditure of time and money went for nothing
Professor Rudolf Virohow, the learned surgeon and
physicst has lately prepared some interesting tables
concerning the color of the hair eyes and skin among
the German school children. Six million seven hun
dred and ffty-eight thousand eight hundred and
twenty -seven pupils examined, being nearly
four-ffths of all tho youth Of" A: b c." age. OF
these 2. l49, ,O27-31.08 per cent-bclonged to the
and S,650, 978-5415 per cnt- to the blond
brunette or mixed type distinctly showing that moro
than one half of the entire lumber are in the latter
category. two-thirds of the remaining 40 per cent
being bonds The territorial division Of the principal
bound aries OF North South and Middle Germany
1886 pcr cent Of the pure blonds being found in
the districts. 32 25-2S3 per cent in the mid
dle and 24.5-1S per cent in the southern ones The
River Main thus becomes an anthropoogical line Of
Significance. In general the further south One goes
the brunctes he meets-Soutn Bavaria mastering
but IA per cent blonds. Among the Is, 1916 Hebrew
children the mixed type predominaes also the pure
br,inettes outnumbering the pure blonds, however.
threefold Whereas the relation of the blonde TO the
brunettes among the Christians is 3lS 10 Ia that
among tho Jewish children 10 as 1l.29 TO ~. The
grsy-eyed and haired predominant in the mixed
type Many other results were brought to light Of
more interest, however, to Germany. than to
the world at large Professor Vrchow has devoted
years study of this nature and his deductions may
be accepted as categorical.