Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-30
COLLEGES ARE CRIPPLED IN
 GERMANY
Class Rooms in Twenty One Leading Institutions Are A. most Depopulated and Ameri- can Students Are Worried.

WASHINGTON. Mar. 29.-The war
 in Europe, while not completely clos 1 ing Germany's twenty-one great uni versailles, has practically depopulated their class rooms and their profession al chairs These institutions had, be- fore the war. a total of more than DO, 900 matriculated students. the one at Berlin having nearly 10000 alone. The part played by the German university in national and international life is described by the National Geographic
 Society In the Allowing short sketch Among the faculties of Germanys twenty-one universities were scattered
 at the beginning of the war in Europe
 many of the biggest men in the world Of learning The German university
 was thoroughly cosmopolitan com munity an nations, an manner of GUS
 toms and an habits of thought being represented Americans have been
 represented at German universities
 since Benjamin Franklin's day That
 great printer-statesman-p philosopher is looked upon as the founder Of the Ann
 ercan Colony at Goeitingen a loosely organized student corporation with @ wealth of traditions extending over more than 100 years
 Hundreds of young Americans at- tended the universities of Germany each year, and the wars interruption of the plans of this student stream will not be the least of the hardships that the great struggle is forcing ms Go share The influx of American stu dents regularly began in the early par of April and continued through the summer until the opening of the aut- umn semester. At such universities as Berlin. Leipsic, Munich. Heidelberg and Gocttingcn. the student cpntiu- gent Grom the United States forms a considerable body
 "The German university is an i'm period state within a state. Upon being matriculated in ono of these universities, the student becomes a l member of an ideal republic or learn ing: he is responsible alone to the heads Of this republic, and they are responsible for him to the state The card of membership which the uniyer sity authorities issue to him is his l passport It protects him from arrest l and from the imposition of tradesmen | and establishes his identity beyond | question before an servants of the l state. This card, also, procurcs thea ] Ire and concert tickets for him at sig { nificant price reductions Further more. it establishes his credit withl local tradesmeu
 From before tho beginning of mod l ern times, Germany has held fore most educational ranks. Her univer- sities have enjoyed international rc- nown since the Middle Ages while | many of the names most prominent | in the pedagogical world arc German. Today. the Fatherland is distinguish ed both for diffusion of knowledge through all classes, diffusion that has practically eliminated ilhteracy and for the superiority of its special ists in the various fields of leaning.
 "Education in Germany costs less than daily fare in fact, it is regarded ty the Germans as uecessery as bread and meat The matriculation fee at a German university is eighteen marks. about $A5O The lecture cours- es. as a rule. cost from S125 to S5.0o. according as there are one or four hours week. Laboratory fees are extra. but reasonable; and the classes held by the professors are generally gratis Since 1918. the scale of prices has been increased somewhat for stu dents from foreign lands but they arc sin more easily borne than uniyersi- ty charges outside of Germany
 "There is no more genuine democ- racy in the world than that prevaiiins in the German university community. Daring his student years, the German puts away the irksomC responslbiii- ties and the outward conventions Of caste. and lives and chooses friends according to his fancy But he seldom carries this democracy beyond his uni ,-ereitv years "