The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-09

university teaching. we need cite only one
fact, which is that 1t has not o sinRle fac
ulty OF theology under state auspices,
Paris and tho other at M%ortaubon. Not
only so. but the Catholic Church has few
properly accredited representatives
amongst the 1000 or moro university pro-
fortunately. its dark side. for it is esti-
mated By those thoroughly familiar with
university life, that about four ont OF
every six OF the professors are agnostics,
the same authorities assuring us that the
proportion of agnostics among students Is
still greater.
The discipline in lycees and colleges par
takes naturally of hat which is in vogue
In wellregulated French homes. There is
so generally along lines which the Amcri-
can would call fast" and at the same
time. we know of no civilized country
in which boys and girls. MP to q
certain age. are kept under such strict
surveillance. Perhaps the later excesses
are q natural ebound from the earlier re-
preston. Be this "a it may. youthful life
In France. whether at home or at school, 10
very much of q prison life for both sexes.
We are referring now particularly to high
class schools, which are largely patronized
by the bourgeois. and where many of the
pupils are received as b0arders. The boys,
when taken out for a walk, are always Vlg-
ilantly attended, and they carry about
NAth NAODA - AlOsS OLA " oh
ness. One is impressed, indeed, that they
are altogether etfeminate in their appear
anoe, affording a complete contrast in both
physique and manner to American school
As for the poor girls. they are more
demure looking than the average nun, and
when you learn what their lives are you are
not surprised at this. They are watched as
%vigilantly at night as by day. Literally
they are never free from oversight. not
even when they are asleep, for the rule in
the new lycees for girls is to lodge them
in long dormitories, holding thirty or more
beds. these being separated only by a
screen. and each dormitory has is female
guard. who overlooks these sleeping inno-
cents as vigorously, they say, as though
she were a death watch keeDing vigil over
condemned criminals.
As to day scholars, they are never al
lowed. If they are girls, to make the dis
lance between home q school unettend-
ed. Generally an omnibus is at their
service, INT If this 10 not used the dis
cipline of the school makes it imperative
that they shall be accompanied there and
back by some female chaperon, this rule
being SO strict that its infraction would be
visited by the pupils expulsion. There Is
little danger. however. for French mammas
ter as are the of
in strict harmony with the entire
French system. which not only secludes
GIFTS IJOm association DeIOTe marriage with
the opposite sex. but which keeps them
apart until the school life Is finished from
society of every kind. The French school
girl knows nothing of parties. not even OF
dove parties. Such diversions are not
tolerated by either parents or tutors. The
school years are years of mechanical druid
gerry and social abnegation, the result be-
ing. of course. that they are we'll educated
mo doubt about that-but are as little
fitted for actual contact with the struggles
and temptations of such q life as is before
them in France as can possibly be imag-
ined.
ii SEXES.
To the faculties. which represent what
Americans would call university teaching.
women are admitted side by side with men,
and in the various professions represented,
not excepting those of surgery and medi-
cine, they are allowed in these days on
equal chance with the lords of creation TO
practice ON an unsuspecting public. But
In subordinate education the sexes are
taught separately. This is required
by the law. and the stipulation applies
almost as rigidly to primary as TO
secondary schoola Every In hav-