New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-04
uctlon. There is no available employment ior

ducton. There is no available employment lot
a vast number of the men turned out ny the
universities. They have been rendered more or
less unf; for occupations in which there is roonl'
and are without hope OF the work for when '"e''
training presumably adapts them Ever since
the Emperor Frederick put into words his opih-
ion that education had much 10 90 Win 'He
social question all eyes have been turned TO thls
matter. The patriarchal aspect Of the govern
ment must be blamed for the excess in the NUM-
Der Of students. since it encouraged people III
looking to the State for help. The aino''oh Oh
parents for their children has contributed 10 III
the twenty-five universities Of the Empire WIN
men. a great number Of whom would he pel''i
off with education Of a practical sort. b"' WIZ"
the years have been spent and the university
has made Of the youth what il could helthe' i've
nor his a0ectionate father laws the blame Of i'll
success in later years upon himself. the state Is
accused the State which seemed 70 encourage
all the expenditure Of time and money with the
hope Of preferment. Altogether. the process IL
one which makes Social Democrats in great
numbers. II fills the professions with unSul'ape
men. reduces the average income OF educated
workers to a low point. and causes years ol d'ldy
in the promotion Of those who are worthl'S''
The difficulty should bring its own remedy one
thing that will tend to reduce the hulhpe' u
students will doubtless be making the obligation
to study more searching one in the universities.
That man should not recognize the professor
whose lectures he was supposed 10 be taking
that he should not even know the building In
which those lectures We're delivered, are signih-
can't points in an argument on the responsibility
of tho university system itself The tradition
which allows a man 10 study or not. as he
chooses cannot last long under such conditions
as now prevail With the privileges OF the idiers
will 20 the idlcrs themselves. The ancient GA
roIr Of student life will be dsspatcd. Classical
study Mr. Dawson thinks. must yield In part to
the demand for a more practical education. lie
looks for conversion Of many Gymnasia into
Rcalschuen, and of many of the latter into
Higher Burghcr schools There will be less
Latin. little or no Greek. and on the other hand
more and more teaching Of modern languages
In these the German has indeed long been busy
An English grievance Is the invasion OF Clerks
from Germany. and Mr.. Dawson takes the oc-
oasion to point out that these men get on just
because Of their industrious study Of modern
languages.
German idealism becomes daily more pra ctical
Technical education is becoming more general
The hope Of rivallirg England in commerce
seems to be nearer than II was Germany aims
now to be rich as well as philosophical ana
practical. As her achievements In war We're the
result Of studied efforts, 50 have been her sue
cesses in trade. Her true emblem in every de-
partment Of life is the labOriOus student VINO
pods slowly along with his eye fixed on me
distant future. Amid all divcrsities OF opinion
as 10 what should be done. the fact is that the
Empire must develop in all directions. us eVo-
luton goes forward more slowly but not less
surely in politics than in commerce. Mr.. paw
sons study If political life. OF constitutions ana
Of parties, is an expansion II the prophecy oi
Prince Bismarck that the nation could not stand
still. but must move toward a free system Ike
that Of England. If the Socialists. to whom Mr.
Dawson dcVotes a long essay. demand something
far beyond the democracy Of England, the re-
publicanism of the United States. or the federal
ism Of Switzerland. II must be remembered that
they furnish only one OF the forces which are
impelling the Empire toward its predesned goal.
1t is not In what any one party means - accom-
plish that the future Of Germany IL 10 be seen.
but in fair estimate of the strength Of al the
tendencies now at work on national organism
which Is one Of the creates. known 70 modern
times
Not the least interesting part Of Mr. Dlwson's
work is that which deals with the lives Of thu
Emperors William !. Frederick II and William
H. Moltke apd Prince Bismarck. the makers
Of Germany Because the first Emperor chose
such profoundly capable men 20 carry on the
work he had at heart his own reputation as
statesman has suffered. Mr.. Dawson estimates
him differently. He was. before Bismarck the one
who had German unity most at heart. one ~
his few literary efforts a poem The
Upper Rhine in which the thought nearest his
heart expressed almost generation before
the war with France. II was he who chose
MOltke and Prince Bismarck not they who chose
him. His successor. If he had lived would in
Mr.. Dawsons opinion. have been less Of mill
tary man than his father. but would have aimed
to inspire anew the intellectual and artistic life
Of the nation. OF the young ruler now on the
throne. Mr.. Dawson speaks with a reverence
unusual 10 Engshmen He looks upon him as
a man abreast with the age" practical in re-
form. with personality at least az strong as
that Of any contemporary ruler"