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3473; Kiev in 1889 had 3088. A large proportion of 

 the students are young men of small means, and in 

 many cases students are crowded together, living upon 

 a very meagre allowance of spending money. Students 

 have been known to spend only five cents a day to 

 buy food. The Russian Government, however, offers 

 considerable assistance to students, and a very large 

 number of them have their fees remitted, and are 

 otherwise helped. Notwithstanding this there has 

 always been more or less conflict between the students 

 and the Russian Government many of the most 

 prominent Nihilists have been educated at the univer- 

 sities, and many serious Nihilist demonstrations have 

 taken place among the students. 



RUSSIAN ORGANIZATION 



(R. Martens & Company, Inc., have accorded me 

 permission to print the following extract from their 

 monthly brochure entitled Russia.} 



Too little attention seems to be paid to Russia's 

 power of organization, in the copiously printed specu- 

 lations of bankers and business men regarding the 

 prospects of international trade after the war. The 

 whole world knows, to its cost, the efficiency of 

 German organization in war ; and it realizes that this 

 war efficiency is based on a remarkable organization 

 of trade, industry, and finance under the conditions of 

 peace; that in fact it was the peace organization that 

 made it possible for Germany to wage war. There is 



