Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-19
RUSSIAN STUDENT LIFE.

Telegraph, writing of university life in
l3a"ia. says: ''Ihc universities TO long
O. pO39cS3 tho RIGHT to elect their own
Professors, thcig own deans. their own
r>ctors; tho Government appoints thcm
I'll, without ref = n&c to their scientific
qualifications, and many fc"cCur1 who
were lauG hing-&tocl:j TO tho students
under tho old regime arc full-nCGTcd
professors now. All professors arc moro
officials, who gro not 1T liberty to Ice
t"rc on any brarch Of their subject
Which they think ncCdful to their stu.
dents, Tut have 10 send in their pro-
gca"mcs to the ministry twice y year,
ana cach time III" ministry rcvises. cor
r:utS or abOliShcS them, substituting
sDri"thiD: else in their place. They
az" ordered to lecture on such AMI such
Iart1 Of such = subject, and SO vast is
Il" programme and so riliculously short
tie, timo allowed for its exhaustive
treatment that many professors arc COM
r"iiCl u read ouJ term after term dry
cJn*ncctuG OF thcSos, which, OF course
never change.
The result is absurd; tho students
-" compelled to como and spend hour
etc hour liitoninT to 4 course OF lcct-
urcS which they have written ont in OK
t"nso 1T homo. And yet. If they absent
Themselves from this infliction, they arc
expelled Fo" tho students have rs lit
tn rit:ht to choose what lectures they
vii: attond - tho professors have to do
c!.;N what Subjcct3 they will lecture
r!luA. A student who chooses Russian
literature for his specially. il %llJy1cd TO
f"tuuG3" about fifty lH"tur"5 daring his
E: lHuNthG' term. whcrc;.-' hc must have
Il. !HGGG two hundred lectures on archca-
Ol2cT and Roman antiquities, delivered
Nurg often by Foreigners. chiefly To-
h":.'i2E%. unable to express their
th2nwhts in grammatical Russian. a
Ei,:2.AcanC consequence is that last
year thD AIintStcr-who. by tho way, 10
u Ar?c2!aa-had to complain in an Of
t2i@l circular that tho petitions writtca
t. Et!a by university students faro very
Of, not only detective in style, bat
52ti;E IL ;r"2:3rnar AID Orthorrophy!' 4
t-Gt!H:lt lHu&t not miss q lcctuTC; thCro
i host Of minor officials who lie in
wat for him, and report his absence 1T
Geo. He must always como in his mil
la"rT n2%1tl", and every peg il examined
G"y"f3i times during each lecture.
"Lh> @yitam OF cGpio1.yJ l.. -! )ur-
i3hci - tho universities nighG cwcitc
~" envy Of tho Vcnotians Of the GAvj of
III DoT"3, when tho very WALL had
or. ii TOu conGh or Snecz2 tho bc2Alcs
l:.!JE it. TIC inspectors hear OF il, tho
rr"io' Is Informed Of it, it is reported to
tlo C.!..ao'. nal carefully entered into
thu" several books against your name,
=" IL nay hereafter be useful us proving
OF G:3proViAg something laid to your
charge whenever You turn ont to be po-
Htr"lly internationally. While you arc
student not o3ly en- the inspectors.
SuD-l1%pcctors. ocadlcs ana all tho MR.
riloES OF tho Government visit YOU in
En':' r0oMs ct al hours Of tha lay and
T'.'Ay. r&n5ack your drawers and trunks,
t0:n Jo"r bed upside down, rip up your
i.atFrSS, and generally give your lodT-
i.Gj the appearance OF apartments that
E1V" Just suffered from u seismic con-
NUiI'o1 like the earthquake OF Lisbon,
h"I they arc Invested with tho power
which they arc not slow to usc--of
""aichiAG your person, examining tho
ro"ttntS OF your pockets, and your
;"rda end relations, end their pockets
I'D belongings. should they happen to
b" with you during tho domiciliary
visit.
"!hc3o in1uisitionary processes, of
coarse, arc quite Independent of those
tA&h arc mado by tho police and tho
q nbcrg Of tho terrible Third Section
which you have to put up with rs often
a. II dcrr2cd GOOD for you in particular
or i"r tho E1piro at largo. Then, again,
) ~ house porter, or dvornili, watches
y"n liko a. Argus, his wife or his
IN trees spies upon you, his children OF
hi3 ncphcws dog your steps wherever
YOU 80; every ono who visits you is
a,'ird his or her name, his or her buSi.
ICES, and admission IL refused until
statements arc made and immediately
T2rif.cd. Hclplc&sly drunken mon arc
often on your stairs or under your win
dows- apparently Objects OF disgust or
pity, IL reality spies eagerly straining
tacir oars for every thing you say, and
Ol"Cn ruu3iAg up their imapiahtion To