Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-01-27

! by the municipality: only nominal
fee is charged; consequently, it is
difficult to get seatS-all are over
crowded. The governmental provision
does not keep pace with the popula-
tion. In all schools in Russia there
are great many free entrances.
Next in gradation to the town school
i is the gymnasia, which is a classical
institution. The word, gymnaSia. is
German term for high schools, and
does not imply that a gymnasium is
attached. In these institutions, there
are different departments from the
primary up. Considered with the
gymnasia are the commercial schools:
in both there are loog courses; and,
as a rule, the expense of each pupil
varies from sixty to one hundred
rubles term. In addition to these,
there are private schools which are
more select and more costly.-the
charges amounting to one hundred
and fifty rubleS session. In Moscow,
exclusively, in which Latin and Greek
are taught; and in So. Petersburg, a
school of medicine for women. Besides
these, there are the large, imperial
schools, called Institutes, which are
also diStinctively for young women
The students are all dressed in
uniforms: when they go home, they
are allowed to leave it off, but when
returning, it must again be dOnned
The fee paid upon entering covers the
expense of the wardrobe. These
imperial schools have been endowed
by an emperor or empress and usually
bear his or her name. Some of them
are set apart for the nobility. None
of these institutions are very recent,
as can be seen in the uniform. The
dresses are very simple and coarse,
cut decOllette .and worn with white
cuffs and aprons. The same costume
is used by the students among the
nobility as by the pupils from the
common people. In every school in
Russia priest comes once day and
teaches the ritual and the meaning of
the veStmentS. While the ignorance
throughout the country is widespread,
yet, as rule, town children know
how to read and write. No fault can
be found with the universities of
Russia. The expense of attending
them is very low and the system of
education adopted by them most
admirable. The students are allowed
to live anywhere they please. Moscow
has five thousand, and there are many
thousands in st. Petersburg, which is
the center OF the university life OF
Russia. The fees amounting TO not
more than sixty rubleS d year, or
thirty dollars ia American money,
attract an enormous number of
the universities-a laundress in
Moscow keeps her son at the highest
institution of learning in that city.
The induce ments held out to the men
in that grade of life are very strong:
not only does a boy pass from the
peasant class when he finishes at the
university. but he no longer has to
carry PEASANTS passport.
The Characterization Of Rank.
Every one who serves in Russia, Of
any sort, is on the steps of the official
ladder .Jen' is the term used by
them, meaning gradatlon of rank: in
English it is "Chin." For instance, a
lieutenant makes for himself about
the twelfth or thirteenth chin.
When he becomes a colonel, he has
reached the eighth, when general
the fourth. When he gets to be
noble, he becomes an hereditary
nobeman: that is, all of his descend
ants are also noble forever. The
system was devised by Peter the
Great. Upon his ascent to the throne,
be found existing vast number OF
persons living on landed estates. He
wanted to enlist them in the service
of the empire, so he resorted to the
Chin process in order to gain them.
There is more honor attached to