The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-09
CITY OF FRANKFORT STILL PLANNING FOR
 A LARGE UNIVERSITY
Is Intended to Rival Great Educational Enterprises In Other Parts of Ger
 many-Is Endowed

Frankfort, Germany, September 14 1 Correspondence of the Associated Press
 The war has checked but by no means stopped plans for what is perhaps Frank. forts most ambitious undertakings uni. versity to rival the great educational en. terprises and institutions in other parts of Germany
 Despite stupendous demands on their resources because of the war, the wealth men and the societies and institutions back of the Frankfort university have continued to lend it the support originally planned and guaranteed. and gradually 1t is approaching completion from phy- sical standpoint and developing in other ways.
 The university as originally planned was to be one of the few large institutions of It's kind in Germany dependent upon
 private endowment and operating~ only with the permission, not the support of the state. With the interest from mill lions of marks to draw on, highly paid
 chairs were planned. leaders in educa-
 tional lines were engaged, and 8 wonder
 ful set of buildings were outlined.
 Then came the war and its calls on any and every private and public purse. Those behind the university somewhat grimly decided to go ahead, and in the very midst VI f'o wal, idNt uiScu II l11IO Delng ana set it on it's feet. Not only will the uni- versity be complete architecturally, with in few months, but it is already suc- cessfully in operation educationally.
 The university began it's first semester with about 800 students, of whom 1t lost but few, and swung into it's second half year with 800 pupils. Practically every one of the HOO were, at the time of en- rollment at least, exempt from military nd ftftC ba has been kept at high point.
 One activity of the institution that was not counted in the original plans s the instruction of men who have re- turned from the war with impaired limbs and incapable of further service, As in other German cities these men have been taught new trades In industrial schools, so many of them are now enrolled as students at the Frankfort university, and are fitting themselves through the medium of a thorough education to take up some new occupation
 The institution is university in the full meaning of the word, though it is an outgrowth of the adjoining Academy of Social Science, and will be predomi- nantly scientific in it's work It has also large and growing medical department. which at present is engaged in war hos pital and clinical work in a separate building in another part of the city.
 The principal departments of the uni- Versity are the law and the medical schools, the school of philosophy, under which heading fall the departments of history, language, phiology and geogra- phy; the school of natural sicences. with physics and chemistry, minerology and seo'ogy botany zoology and so on: the school of economies and social sicence, and the school of arts and crafts
 The requirements for admission to the university are approximately the same as those imposed by other similar institu- tlons but officials of the empire, the state the city or the church are not ac- eetped, no rare those attached to other Prussian institutions of learning. nor persons belonging to the trade classes"