Photo by Gilbert H. Grosvenor 

 TWO SCHOOIvBOYS HAVE STAYED BEHIND TO HAVE A PLAYEUL SCRAP, WHILE THEII: 

 COMRADES HAVE CROWDED INTO THE CATHEDRAL 



Russian boys and girls do not play as children do in western countries. The athletic games 

 and toys and uproarious laughter of our young people are generally unknown in Russia 



schools in Russia, including public and 

 private, primary and higher schools, was 

 7,970,000, and there were 23 males for 

 every 10 females in this enrollment. 



A law was passed several years ago 

 making general education compulsory, 

 but the growth of the village schools not- 

 withstanding has been much slower than 

 its proponents had hoped to witness. 



THE POSITION OE WOMAN 



Although women in general have re- 

 ceived such little attention educationally, 

 Russia lives up Avell to its reputation as 

 a land of extremes in this regard, for 

 Russia was the first country in Europe 

 to establish a technical school for women. 

 The first woman civil engineer in the 



world was a Russian, and as far back- 

 as 1859 a woman was admitted to the 

 University of Petrogad. 



The educated woman in Russia enjoys 

 a position of freedom equal to that of 

 any other country in the world. She is 

 frequently found as owner and manager 

 of large factories and estates ; she gets 

 her degrees at the universities along with 

 men; she is given posts as teachers of all 

 kinds, including professorships at men's 

 universities, and she practices medicine 

 and dentistry. There is a marked ten- 

 dency to encourage her entering the legal 

 profession, and the Constitutional Demo- 

 crats in the Duma want to admit her to 

 the duties of jury service. When wom.en 

 teachers and professors have served 20 



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