RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES 



The New York Sun years ago, reviewing an article 

 in the Scottish Review on Russian universities, presented 

 facts quite surprising to those who have made them- 

 selves acquainted only with the barbaric side of 

 Russia. The Sun said that the information comes 

 from a contributor who has attended lectures at the 

 University of Kiev. The Russian Empire contains 

 eight universities, all of them endowed by the state, 

 and under control of the government, through the 

 Minister of Public Instruction. These eight univer- 

 sities, named in the order of their foundation, are 

 Moscow, Kazan, Charkov, St. Petersburg, Kiev, 

 Odessa, Warsaw, and Temsk. 



The faculties of their universities are four, viz., 

 law, medicine, philosophy, physics and mathematics. 

 Language and literature are included in the depart- 

 ment of philosophy. 



The professoriat of languages has been composed 

 not only of Russian and German scholars, but also of 

 native Orientals of high literary reputation. 



The -courses of instruction correspond with those of 

 American and English universities. 



More students flock to the universities than can be 

 accommodated. The University of St. Petersburg 

 had in 1891, 2087 students; Moscow in 1890 had 



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