The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-16

tiEtt ~ should be widely known
~ TINS country that IL is not the
people from this side Of the Atlanti,
ai"d ~ IN the drastic de-
cree Just issued by his government. re-
stricting to 4 minimum the number of
foreign students at the universities in
his dominions. True, the number Of
transatlantic students at the Univer-
stiles of Bona. Jena. Heidelberg. Ber-
I'm, etc, is very large, but there has
been no question until now of any OBJ
lection to their presence Indeed. they
were welcomed. as likely TO become on
their return home advocates OF still
friendlicr political and economic rela-
lions on the part of their country with
Germany
But the German universities have Of
late years been literally swamped by
students from Russia and from the
Balkan kingdoms; and 1t is in order to
arrest this MuscoVitc flood and to pre-
Vent German students from being lit
orally crowded out of their own uni
Versities that the Kaisers government
has been obliged to make this move.
limiting the access OF aliens to the
Teuton seats of learning
Muscovite students are unruly. Edu-
lover classes. renders them discon-
tented with their lot. and rebellious to
every form of discipline and restraint
For the purpose Of maintaining order
among them and with the object of
discouraging revolutionary sentiments,
all sorts of rules and regulations have
been devised for the manag emcnt and
control OF Russian universities. More
over the students there are subjected
not only TO severe discipline. but also
to good deal OF police surveillance
while certain studies are frowned upon.
They have hitherto escaped all those
restrictions in German univers;tie les
where they have ENJOYED far greater
degree OF freedom. That is why they
have locked TO Germany. where their
advent has not been welcomed by the
authorities. For ii was feared that
they would communicate their revolu-
tionary ideas and their dissa tisfaction
with every form OF government and
authority TO their Teuton classmates
Although this decree OF the Kaiser's
Minister Of Education to great ex-
tent. barring foreign students from
German universities has been particu-
iarly aimed IT those hailinE from Rus
STA, it has been issued with the full
approval Of the Russian government.
and eNcites no resentment in official
circles al St Petersburg. For It has
been held on the banks of the Neva
that the free and untrammclled life
In the German universities developed
in Russian students even still greater
tendencies to rebellion against the
powers OF the land, than in the sister
institutions in the land of the Car.
Much speculation Is being indulg ed
in in England as to the reason for
the altogether extraordinary number
OF breakings off of engagements that
have been announced in London dur
ing the last three weeks, at least two
dozen OF these wrecked betrothals be-
ing those of young people connected
| with the peerage. the baronetage. OF
! the untitled aristocracy OF Great Brit
ain.
Some psychologists have advanced
the opinion that most of the engage
ments now broken were made I'm the
spring. the season of love. and the
psychological movement of the awak-
ening of universal life. The sum-
mer season has given time for the en-
thusiasm of spring 10 wane. and the
advent of autumn finds people in n
state of lower vitality. and consequent
depression and irritability. calculated
to cause the breaking of of engage
ments
a far more likely theory is this: that
girls to-day are more eSactlng IN inc
choice OF their husbands than they
used to be, and that men, thanks TO
the development of masculine at
tributes among the fair sex. are Stacker
in their devotion. and less disposed to-
wards chivalry. Moreover. marriage
has lost. in the eyes of the younger
generation 1T any rate, some OF it's
sacred character. and is no longer the
alpha and the omega OF the existence
OF a women, still less OF Il man FL
nally, the breaking OF Engagements has
become so common In England that 1t
has ceased TO be regarded as detri-
mental to the future of girls, as was
formerly the case.