The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-02-21
UNIVERSITY in REVOLT.
st. Petersburg Professors ana stu
dents Tear Up the Czar's Picture
and Demand Reform.

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ST. Petersburg, Feb. 81. ~ More i'm
portant to the Russian government than
the assassination of Grand Duke Ser
gius was the meeting Of the directors.
professors and students Of the ST. Pc
tersburg university. This meeting.
held publicly and in the presence OF
government officials, was in effect a re-
fusal longer 70 recognize the car and
his government There was a spirit OF
defiance III every speech. The resolu-
tions, passed by the unanimous voice
Of more than 1000 men, will bring more
terror to the Bureaucracy than the
bomb which did its work in Moscow
last week.
Following the speeches and the de-
cision of the students and professors
to close down the university until next
September came the tina1 Defiance
when the most violent of the univer-
sity men tore the emperor's portrait to
pieces. stripped and demolished the
frame and went into the street carry
Ing bits of the canvas and the gliding
as souvenirs of their work. Although
Cossacks were drawn up outside the
building and in the adjacent avenues,
to be in readiness should the students
make a demonstration in the streets,
there was no disorder of any kind after
the meeting. The action Of the faculty
and the students, however. has aroused
the most conservative men to a realiza-
ton of the fact that the empire is In
revolution and that nothing can stop
the liberal movement now on except
the absolute surrender of the emperor
and his advisers to the demands Of the
political reformers, which demands in
writing were first made public in De-
cember.
Educational System Tied Up.
With this decision of. the student body
of the great university to suspend stu
dies for the remainder of the university
year practically the whole educational
system of Russia has entered upon a
period Of stagnation. The silent but
earnest protest of Russfa's younger
men against the bureaucratic system
must now be needed This action fol-
lows that Of the Moscow university and
even grammar schools In several cities
of the empire. The military in several
cities Of Russia have been obliged to
resort to force to restrain sch0olboys
Of tender years from joining in the
student movement and 1t is now clear
to the minister Qf justice and the min
lister of the interior that the movement
for political reform is not confined to
mobiles and to peasants nor to the under
paid workmen Of the great cities, but
that it has taken hold Of all the
masses.
The majority Of the professors and in
structors of the university attended
the great meeting. and only two tutors
and three directors of the university
showed that they were out Of sympa-
thy with the great body Of students.
Neya hall was too small to hold one
half Of the assemblage, and so it was
decided to meet in the auditorium of
the university on Basil island. Even
this great hall was not able to hold
those in sympathy with the movement,
and there was an overflow in the class
rooms, where violent speeches were
made against the government and sto-
ries of the French revolution recited
by enthusiastic students.
Martial law has been declared at
Tsarskoe- -Selo owing to numerous
threatening letters being received at
the palace The chief of secret police
has ordered special precautions to pre-
vent any outrage on the imperial fam
lily.