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...status of East Karelia (labor commune in Russia). The population of East Karelia is largely Finnish; the Finns are anxious to know if the Soviet Government did or did not undertake to make the internal administration of East Karelia an international affair, when it signed the Treaty of Dorpat...
...government has provided liberally for its universities, giving them five buildings, good libraries, expensive apparatus, large gardens and well paid professors. Almost every university is noted for some special branch of science, as Kiev for medicine, Dorpat for astronomy, and Moscow for natural sciences, although at each all subjects are taught. The University of Moscow, the largest and oldest, was founded in 1755, and has a library of 175,000 volumes, 1,600 students, and 75 instructors. The yearly fees are about 100 roubles, or $75 in our money. The government gives 400,000 roubles per year towards its support...
...Russia there is one German university at Dorpat, with seventy-three teachers and one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven students...
...certain callings-what are called "compulsory lectures"-these regulations were not made by the university, but by the state, which was afterwards to admit candidates to these callings-At the same time the students had, and still have, perfect freedom to migrate from one German university to another, from Dorpat to Zurich, from Vienna to Gratz; and in each university they had free choice among the teachers of the same subject, without reference to their position as ordinary or extraordinary professors, or as private docents. The students are, in fact, free to acquire any part of their instruction from books...
...universities, except those at Dorpat and Helsingfors, which have also a theological faculty, consist of three faculties, - medical, juridical, and philosophical. The latter is divided into two divisions, - a philological and a mathematical. Instruction consists only in lectures, and attendance is not compulsory; neither prayers nor church attendance is considered a necessary part of a university education. In general, it may be said that Russian universities are modelled after the German fashion. The time of the course is not prescribed, although an attendance of at least four years is expected from a student...