Evening star., 1898-04-29
UNIVERSITY OF PARIS.
1t Has More Students Than Any Other
In the World.

From the Independent.
According to the latest edition of Mi
nerva, the University of Paris exceeds all
others in the number of students, the reg
lister showing 11,G}0 last year. Berlin fol-
lowed with 9,629; Visnna, 1925: Madrid
6,143; Naples. J,1U3; Moscow, 4,i61. Har-
ward, with 3.6I4 students, is the ninth in
the list but exceeds all other American
universities oxford had 1856, and Cam
bridge 1873 students. Edinburgh leads the
Scotch list with roll of $50. The ten
dency OF students to conSregate in the great
capitals is a noticeable feature of uriver-
sity life in Europe, London being the sin
gle exception in this respect. The move
ment for a teaching university in this me-
tropoliS seems as far from success as ever;
nevertheless the city is not destitute of stu
dents that are really doing university work
The Inns of Court constitute a vsritable
law faculty, weak only on the historical
side. There are several hospital schools of
medicine for men, of which the next to
the largest, ST. Bartholomew numbered
80 students during the last session. There
is also Il similar school for women Uni
versity College had 1 800 students and the
Technical College of the City and Guilds
Institute, 21o. The numbers given by no
means exhaust the total of students at
tracted TO this great center by its facilities
FOR scientific, literary and professional train
ing. Undoubtedly the number of students
would be greatly increased if these agen-
cies were organized into an university.
The concentration of student groups is
less marked in our country. Still, of 4O tSl;
university students, called, which are
accredited by Minerva to universities Of the
United States, above 40 per cent are IN the
institutions of seven cities. The case with
Washington, which is often hkened to that
of London, is really quite different. In our
own capital there are already less than
Tour universities in existence and Il fifth
chartered. There is, however, ample place
for an Institution which should utilize for
graduate students the vast scientific col
lections and archives of the government
The model for such an institution is found
in unique school of Paris, which Is how
ever. exclusively scientific in its nature,
the College de France, making ample pro-
vision ir pathological. historical and cldssi-
cal branches To the scientific chairs of the
University of Paris, the Museum of Nat
uril History, the College de France, are at
tached spacious laboratories. These lab
oratories are organized into a system under
the mann of Ecole Pratique des Hautes
EtudeS- Admission to these laboratories is
always granted on application being made
to the professor In general there is 10
fee for admission, but an outlay red Tired
for the work that is und ertaken has to be
paid for. The workers are under control of
the professor, whether they undertake CIiS-
inal investigation or merely seek to increase
their knowledge OF recognized subjects. In
almost all the laboratories lectures are de-
lyered By the assistants. In like manner 4
faculty might easily be constituted at
Washington for the training of specialists