St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
RUSSIAN STUDENTS.
Some Rules That Govern School
Life in st. Petersburg and Mos

Some Rules That Govern School
Life in st. Petersburg and Mos
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New York World
Nowhere in the world is the student
subject to such a strict. searching and
rigorous discipline as is the student in a
Russian university.
From his entrance into school the boy
of ten or eleven years of age has to go
through a long and tedious process of
training, the nature of which tends
more to ut him for army service than to
fill the professors chair. In the pre-
paratOry class the boy is taught the
names of the royal family i'll order, and
the names of the entire dynasty in their
rank and order. These he must know
by heart.
Next comes the way to render honor
and to salute all military officers should
he NEE: them or sLeak about them.
Here also he must learn by heart the
Russian national anthem, God Save
the Gar" Next come marching and the
various military commands. An &C
count is kept of the physical develop
ments of each boy, SO that when he is
sixteen years old it CAN be seen by his
physical progress if he is lit for the
army service.
At this time the scholar receives
passport of identification" and book
containing the rIles and regulations
which are to govern his life in the insti-
tuition. The discipline the Russian stu
dent has to undergo may produce one of
two results. The student may be made
obedient or abjectly slavish, or the
rules aad laws by which he is governed
may give him food for reflection and
create natural aversion to the authori-
ties.
Here are some of the requirements:
Each student must wear a military uni
form with brass and nickel-plated but
tons, which have to be polished every
day; each student must also clean his
own shoes; mustache and beard are not
allowed; hair must be clipped close:
smoking and carrying a cane are for
bidden, as we'll as the use of any intoxi-
cants whatever.
While walking to and from school the
student must carry on his back his
knapsack filled with books, weighing in
all about twenty-five or thirty pounds.
This he must do in all kinds of weather.
The student cannot attend any social or
public gathering or entertainments:
neither can he go to the theater or con-
cert hall. He must not be on the street
after p. m.
He must not read any newspaper
whatsoever or any books but those
written by Russian authors and ap-
proved by the censor.
Anyone observing the violation of anv
of these rules may demand the students.
passport and return the same to the
authorities, for which the informer re-
ceives a reward, while the student is
punished by being locked up for twelve
hours in dark room.
+ Secret societies or organizations
among the students are not to be dreamed
of: neither are students permitted to
gather in groups. Two may converse
or speak with one another, but three to-
gether are not allowed. A young Rus
sian who SAYS he attended one of these
institutions is authority for the state
ment that there is always among the
students one say in ten.
The same person declares that when
spy makes an unfavorable report, the
student reported against suddenly dis
appears. in the year of 1851. he affirms,
there were twenty-one disappearance
in the st. Petersburg university, and
double that number In Moscow.
Ii inquiry is made for the missing
student the inquirer will be told that
the young man was considered danger