Another aspect of this incident is mentioned in the 

 reminiscences of L. V. Lebedinsky, which were published 

 in VOICE OF THE PAST in 1912.26 Lebedinsky character- 

 ized Warnek as talented, but very proud and sharp in his 

 treatment of people, who "excited against himself the 

 students and medical men by his tactless relations with 

 them and an unusual strictness during examinations." 

 Handbooks in Russian in zoology and comparative anatomy 

 were absent at that time, and Warnek suggested foreign 

 books, which the students, due to their ignorance of the 

 languages, found difficult to use. He did not read a 

 systematic course, but selected works of his own, which 

 he considered more important and interesting. In answer to 

 the protests of students on this occasion Warnek declared 

 that "the students of a university are not secondary school- 

 boys, they must work independently. The professor in his 

 lectures has only to point out a direction and a method by 

 which the students must carry out their work." The dis- 

 satisfaction of the students and medical men was expressed 

 in the organization of meetings in which the students of 

 other faculties shared, students of law and philologists 

 who did not attend the lectures of Warnek and could not 

 judge their effects and defects. In these meetings it was 

 decided to criticize the professor, and then oblige him 

 to leave the department. Only some of the students and 

 medical men, Lebedinsky continued, strongly defended the 

 professor. "They said that Warnek was regarded differently 

 and they loved him for his talented presentation of the 

 subject." The planned obstruction was nonetheless carried 

 out, mainly by students of other faculties who shared in 

 the action, especially those of the faculty of law. This 

 produced on Warnek a stunning effect. "Warnek went into an 

 adjacent room," Lebedinsky wrote, "where he fainted away; 



26. UZ ZHIZNI MOSKOVSKOGO UNIVERSITETA. VARNEKOVS- 

 KAYA ISTORIYA. "GOLOS MINUVSHEGO" (From the life 

 of Moscow University. Warnek' s History. "Voice of the 

 Past") (Otd. ottisk, pp. 210 - 218). For this source, as 

 well as for the answer in HERZENOVSKY "K0L0K0LE" (see 

 [132]), the author expresses deep gratitude to V. V. 

 Sorokin . 



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