Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-12
SCHOOLS IN
GERMANY ARE
BADLY CROWDED
Foreigners Make Up rs Per
tNEN @5H&
Cent Of Glasses in
IN Colleges

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at most
OF GermAny's universities n teen
meal high schools have been so Sc
sverely cramped since the war by In
;~Ncreasing enrollments h a steps are
being suggested for stemming n r,s-
dents from abroad are estimated to
constitute Is per cent Of the regis
traitor.
"A leader in the movement to re-
strict the foreign influx states that in
his lecture room he has noted from
30 to 100 non-Germans, made up
principally of Bulgarians, Rumanians.
Russians, Hungarians. Jugo Slavs'and
South Africans. He declares the
preparation Of these outsiders" fire.
quently is insufficient and that their
conduct often leaves much-.to be de-
sired" While emphasizing the need
Of some curtailment in the enrolment
and favoring action against foreign
ers to this end, he observes that eau
political or diplomatic embarrassment
through too stringent procedure.
Enrolment in German universities
as a\whole has shown. an increase OF
80 per cent since the war and that of
the technical high schools has been
more than doubled. Just before the
war there were so, 900 university 'stu-
the aggregate jumped to 10000.
There haA since been a slight failing
of, the SIMMER of 1921 registering
s7,:147 and\ the present semesterf 81
TechnicaA high schools of the coun-
try were handling $4,000 before! the
wal. In the autumn of 1920 their
students numbered 22,976 ands last
winter 25.566.
ENROLMENT Drops on.
While the knowledge that the war
resulted in a t%sneater greed for learn
ins in the younger generation. rather
than causing decentralization and
frivolous living, ahas proved gratifying
to the Germans. there is a disturbing
factor in that "hultur" studies have
suffered declining fascination. Com
pared with the figures for 1914. the
present statistics f~or'univeraities show
decreases In the enrolhnents for
Evangelical ard Catholic theology
and for philosophy and phihloGy.
Medicine. the most popular in 1914.
also has proved less attractive. al
though dentistry students have more
than doubled and there has been a
slight increase int- chemistry The
rwould-be physiciansAnow' numher Ia
s110, whereas in 1sr4 there were
1908.
Political economy heads the list Ain
the numbers of university students
enrolled and in percentage of gain
over 1914. This branch has 17,p4
at work. as compared with 1896 lin
the last, pre-war year. The study sof
law comes next with atregistration ,ot
:16, s34, as compared with 9.S40,
Mathematics and physical science
have attractedt s,257. an increase Soi
1,125.
Moro Study Engineering.
III the technical schools the great
est number nave, focked to mechani.
strengthening. which 1906 howtare
Studying ash compared with !S,1is il
1914. Electrical science has 5I2!
enrolled, against 1907 before the war
There are 1885, in the mathematic:
and physical science in these school:
and 3,31h in constructing engineering
as comIered with 1,544 and 24767
respectively Mining and smoking
have Registered a gain from SIS t.
j, 234. Architecture, alone, in thu
technical schools, has shown a de
cline; the enrollmentsdropping from
Y, Z, 193-top 1871.
+ OF 23 universities mentioned i,
current statistics only four hav,
shown a smaller enrolment than il
1914. Tlhis complete list includes
Frankfort..>. founded in 1914 and nov