Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15
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Big Institution Is Scattered All
Over City.
IT HAS NO DORMITORIES
Many of the Students Lead Life Of
Dissipation.
FENCING BOUTS UNPOPULAR
Improved Moral Tone-Association
of Classmen in Color-Bearing
Organizations.
IT HAS NO DORMIT0RIES
FENCING BOUTS UNPOPULAR
BY WILLIAM E CIRTIS.

BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald.
The buildings of the German UNIVERSE
ties are not like similar institutions IL
the United States. They are more like
business houses or manufactures.
There are no dormitories. The student:
i've In boarding houses and apartments
The lecture halls of the different facul
ties are scattered. often at considerable
distances from each other.
In Leipzig the main university build
Ing. or the Augusteum. as 1t is called
ID an imposing structure of classic de-
sign Of three stories. with a noble por
ico. It stands fronting Augustus platz
In the very center of the city near the
theater, the opera and the post Office de-
partment.
The. library is in the building called the
Platinum. almost two miles distant Stu
1ents who want to consult one CT the
100000 volumes or 10000 manuscripts
nave to take long walk or spend TWEEN
" or thirty minutes on the trolley cars
The Fridericianum. containing the med
Ical department. is in another direction
The other buildings. called the Mauricfa-
num and the Bornerianum, are also sep
arated by wide distances.
These long and pretentious names are
derived from the kings who have ruled
over Saxony, and some Of them have
statues.
In the great courtyard of the central
building, the Augusteum, which was thor
oughly rebuilt on modern lines in 1894
e6. Is bronze statue of Prof. Leibnitz,
mathematician and philosopher, native
Of Leipzig. who is regarded as the most
famous of all the eminent men who have
held chairs in the faculties.
.Augusteum is Big Building.
The Augusteum is an enormous build
Ing and contains thirty-six lecture halls.
occupied by professors of law. philosophy.
theology. mathematics, physics and other
departments.
The largest is an auditorium accommO-
Hating 500 people. where the literary ex-
ercises. the comforting Of degrees and
other functions are held. The other lee.
ture halls hold from one to three hun
ired, but seldom do the classes exceed
iso in numbers.
The Augusteum has an imposing ro-
tunda, or waiting hall" as they call It.
Il contains monument in honor Of the
-Sktudents who fell in the war with France
= 1S7O-71 a marble statue of the late
King of SaxOny. number Of busts OF
eminent professors and various other me
MORALS.
The walls are decorated with striking
eresc0es. One of them represents Prone
theus bound to the crags of Kasbek In
the Caucasus; others are intended to rep
resent the development OF civilization ait
er' PrometheuS had conferred upon man
kind the blessing of fire.
The lecture rooms are bare and gloomy
like those of American colleges The
laboratories. in the upper stories. art
light. airy and attractive.
The university Is going to have two new
buildings. 1t owns the adjoining block
and as soon as the leases of the building:
which now occupy it expire they are te
be torn down and replaced by modern
and model structures especially designed
for the purpose.
The income Of the University Of Leipzig
ID quite large in comparison with those Of
other German institutions, being nearly
four millions mark. or million dollars
One-half Is a subsidy from the govern
ment and the other half is from rent:
and fees.