Word: russia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the London Times has received a letter from 350 Greek students, promising their sympathy with England in the event of a war with Russia...
Italy has declared its seventeen universities open to women, and Switzerland. Norway, Sweden and Denmark have taken similar action, while France has opened the Sorbonne to women, and Russia its highest schools of medicine and surgery...
...time of Socrates and Plato; but they are usually considered to have originated in the twelfth century. There are now in Europe, no less than a hundred universities, some of them have been in existence several centuries. Germany and Italy alone possess fifty of these institutions; Eolland, Spain, Russia, and Greece, about twenty five, while Great Britain contains about a dozen. The old universities of France were swept away by the Revolution, but a new system of education has since sprung up, the centre of which, established at Paris, has direct control over all the educational matters of the country...
...communication of radical ideas is to be cut short. A curious part of the regulation is that, while these police overseers are to be maintained out of the Universities' funds, they are not to be at all under the control of the university authorities. The fact is that, in Russia, the faculty of a college needs to be under the espionage of the police quite as much as the students...
Such are some of the conditions by which education in Russia is suppressed. It is a state of affairs, however, only consistent with the previous policy of Alexander III. The press has been for some time deprived of its freedom, and the fettering of education is merely in the natural sequence of events. But probably the government cannot go much farther in its course, at least with success. It has already reached the point which has proved fatal to most despotisms, and there seems to be no reason for expecting the government of the Czars to prove the exception...