The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-06-01
MOVEMENT TO EXCLUDE
FOREIGNERS FROM ATTEND
ING GERMAN UNIVERSITIES

Berlin June 1.-The old opposition
TO the unrestricted admittance of for.
elgners to the German universities
movement for the exclusion from nm.
mas sprung up, in new form, in a
movement for the exclusion from uni
versity privileges after the war of all
that is non-German. This opposition
before the war was directed principal-
ly against Russian Jews, who fiocked
10 German colleges in great num-
bers, and the agitation led to certain
restrictive measures aimed at that
element.
The new movement is directad
against foreigners generally. An
parently it originated among German
Istudents who considered it an in
justice to themselves to allow lecture
rooms and laboratories to be over
crowded with foreigners.
The students at several universities
nave already adopted resolutions. not
demanding the total exclusion of for.
elgners, but the RELOCATION of them TO
secondary position in the enjoyment
OF university privileges t is de-
manded, in particular, that no for
elgn student shall select a seat for
any course of lectures, or a position
at laboratory tables, before all tbe
Germans have made their selections
me contention of the students is that,
lhasmuch as the German people are
taxed for the support of the uniyer.
SUES 1t is only fair that Germans
nave first choice of seats and other
lacllities; and foreigners should he
content to take what is left, or do
seats altogether when nope J
IS left.
me question came up RECENTLY IN
ne RUSSIAN Chamber during the die.
'usslon of the educational and
hufch budget A National Liberal :
peaker took much the same stand as
ne students, emphasizing the idea q
nat the universities exist primarily L
0 subserve German interests The l
peaker said that, while he did not S
'aht Theoretically to seal the univer. Il
mes against foreigners, still some l'
h'hss IN Germans ante-bellum prac. =,
zee must be changed terms of al. :,
hsslon for foreigners must he closed
salhst them altogether "wherever
elihah interests are even remotely
nuangered by admitting them In
lis connection he alluded to the Ian. fe
lese who learned from us the uso la
arms only to turn them against us VI
moment when we needed all our -
'ts for pounding our enemies" p,
Dr' Trott zu Solz. the minister of
Iucation and religion, said the com.
ANTS about the hardships caused bv
reigners at the universities are very in
lch exaggerated but that the whole Ii
pJect must be re-examined after tbe WI
IT, While avoiding expressly anv ey
as to what might he done
en- he said that the question must
Set'ied from the standpoint of shal
rman interests. The minister bah
ought that the whole general atti. and and
lie of Germans toward foreigners cry
led for a revision. The minister a a'ri,i
gan his budget speech by referring 25c
the fact that Prussia was keeninp lt ted
her educational and cultural actiy.
undated. Schools of all grades
entific establishments. and art NJ
seums he said. had been kent onen "a
nterruptedly since the war began N
socialist speaker declared his A.
ty to be in favor of the proposition ~
I the universities exist primarily IA
the home population; but he de- ~
nded that foreigners be treated IA
h hberality. The Socialists also ~
ught in series of resolutions de. ~
nd1ng that the schools be secular,
and religious instructions aboI. ~
ed. that they be made entirely free e
I'd. that they be made entirely ~