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CULTURE DYING IN RUSSIA. to everybody, beginning ed, but they forget to announce from the age of 16, without the closing of the old schools, entrance examinations or any This produced an impression that [educational census'whatever. Auto: the Hat of old institutions ~ result the universtiles began about as many new ones were gradually to lose their significance added. Besides, in nearly ovary uulver- An aspect of Balshevist 25 schools for higher education, provincial town a now culture," of which no detailed University, teachers have either sity" was opened.
All these establishments are account-has yet appeared, is dia to make their lectures as slamen- BECAUSE closed in the following article tary sa possible, in order to adapt nothing but advertisements. In from the Times. For fear of re-them to the level of the uneducat- order to equip them, the inventory |prisals on relatives and colleagues od studant, whose ignorance is and scientific apparatus were col- to lected from all the places that the author's name is not given, sometimes astounding, or but he is a competent English Ignore the majority of students were closed. In most of them no witness and a scholar who has and take into account only the work is being done, because thera is nobody to do it. The perpcaklar] been associated with science in more advanced.
For the training of "conscious occupy semi-nominal positions Russia for many years, and his description of the blighting in-proletarino scientists so-called there, being chiefly occupied in fluence of the Soviet on intel-Workers' Faculties bave been the old institutions that bare lectual lifeds in marked contrast organized at the universities. The remained untouched. Asregards to the accounts of showy educat-course of these faculties covers the new provincial "universities," ional experiments which emanate two years; the students must be they cannot even attract the from the Bolshevist Com-workmen or peasants excluivels, younger solentific workers.
The exhaustion to which the with party recommendations, and missars —
My first and natural desire on with an education not inferior to people were reduced has robbed scientific community of arrival in England was to know that of a village school. In the the
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or greatly surprised by some of the receive completo secondary and not know of one ciance articles I came across in the university training sufficient to academic meeting at which the papers. Most of them dealt with qualify him as a man of science. death of several (on one occasion the resumption of trade relationalt is this class of scientists that 12) scientists was not declared.
Notwithstanding certain pri- between England and the Soviat ia destined to take the place of Government In others were the "bourgeois scientists. The vileges which the scientists as incidents full of horrors, intended absurdity of this plan requires no class enjoyed, eg, higher salar ies, the advantage of combining to impress the imagination or comment.
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BEJECTION OF MOSCOW.
...2,940,000 225,000
Majority against. 2,715,000
I could hardly believe my eyes was the privilege of the rich amongst the population. In order maintain their existence, reading articles in which classes (which is quite untrue to
were often driven to Bolshevism was represented as a with regard to Russia), who with-people system under which arts and held it from the people artificial-small speculations and different sciences flourised as never before, ly, but now the liberators of jobs, innocent in themselves, but under which the highest aspir-the people" have proved that in criminal from the Boisbevist to obtain university | point of view. With many of the ations of the human mind foard order their realization-in short, as a education it required only a two Bolshevist officials speculation years' leave from the loom. It is on a large scale was simply a Paradise Regained.
It is well known that, as regards true at present the majority of profession, but, of course, they intellectual cultore, Russia al-workmen have come to under-wars immune from parsecution.
Edinburgh, June 27.-The 33 ways stood very high amongst stand the meaning of this comedy “Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi"
By overwhelming majorities | woman student residents of Mas civilized countries. In this article and to appreciate it according to is the leading motto of the Come Labour Party Con- son Hall, one of the numerous I shall endeavour to give a brief its value.
By their inclinations and gress declined either to affiliate hostels in Edinburgh for those description of the present cood- LAW A SUPERFLCITY.
education the scientists were with the Third, or Moscow, In-attending the university, have some noteristy by itions of science and the highest Having resolved to utilize the
a revolt against the discipline education in Russia, with which old scientific apparatus for the certainly not adapted to such alternational, or to secede from the obtained
to which they were subjected in I am intimately acquainted, hav-creation of their own, the Bol-mode of existence, and were com- Second, or Ganara, International
pelled to be satisfied with their In order to understand the regard to the privilege of using a ing for many years been closely shevista have allowed the associated with the scientific iversities to continue their work meagre salaries and a miserable significance of the vote, it should latchkey after the regulation bour
existence. I know many probe explained that there are now for the closing of the hostel. world of that country.
on the old lines for the time being-fessors who have to cook their two rival Internationals, whose
It is the complaint of the girls The Russian universities were The only change of programma dinner. wasb the liven. common object is the unification that they have been treated more always very democratic. The took place in the Faculty of Law.
wood. and perform of trade union and Socialist like school children than young radicalism of the university in which all the purely juridical Carry
tb most menia! household efforts throughout the world, the
women capable of taking care of professors and students very often courses were abolished and re- Insurance Co.,brought them into collision with placed by a larger course in work themselves. Besides, they "First having expired. They themselves. Their resentment culminated in a perition to the the Tsar's Government. Russian economics, Sovies constitution, were, of course, obliged to take are students were always at the head and the Socialist teaching.
Second. Under the patronage | Committee of Management, sug- of the liberation movement, and The comparative independ on the bourgeoisie to clear the of the British Labour party and gesting a change of Warden. very popular among the working ence of the universities did so from the streets, remove the the German Majority Socialists. The view is taken by those in dirt-and-refuse-from-the-court- classes. That was before the not, however, save them from
"Its head-quarters are in Geneva,authority that under the previous..... all yards, and unload barges. November Revolution which the
and it continues the tradition of régime too much liberty was Jate common 10 institutions brought the Bolshevists to power. the
that have STARVATIONS OF LEARNING. pre-war Internations) Socialism. granted, and in order to effect After this event, when demagogy passed into the bands of the The gravest result of such con- Third-Hails from Moscow, stricter supervision a Yale lock took the upper hand and the Bolsheviste. Like all other Soviet ditions for Russian scientists is and derives its inspiration from was substituted, and the keys în reconstruction of the State on establishments that to-day are the absolate impossibility of doing the Soviet Government of Russia. I possession of the girls were there- proletarian principles" began, really only living on their past. 4ay productive food, the menial It is & Bolshevik organisation, by made of no use. The Manage- attention was also directed to the the activity of the universities work, &c. have thrown the and came into existence in March ment Committee have taken a serious view of the revolt and trac. 1919. universites.
began gradually to decline. There scholars. out of their
bave informed the girls that Science, which was hitherto are two reasons for this first, the Science is dying in Russia; from
unless they apply for reconsider- regarded as something absolute general economic conditions of men of science Russian scholars
At the close of discossionation of their case they must standing beyond class and poli- the country; secondly, the coud.have gradually degenerated to tics underwent a critical examinitions in which scientis: workers the position of artisans in science.card vote of the delegates gave vacate their rooms at the close of ation on the part of Bolshevist) were placed.
since they have hardly time enthe following result
the session. The university ses- sion has only a few weeks to rub. affiliation to pioneers of culture. They declared i As is known, the Soviet system ough to deliver the necessary Against
Moscow through their Press, that the old develops only in one direction, in lectures.
and a good many of the students There is no longer question of For aliation
would not in any case be return- science was fantrywols science, the direction of consumption.
ing to the university. its aim being the maintenance of Nothing is created, life is creative work. The work that is of the capitalistic regime for the maintained only at the expense being dona is merely revision of exploitation of the proletariat. It of the past, the products of old papers and compilation. Such was further declared that the which would have been rapidly a state of affairs is due not only Against secession from
Geneva... only true science was proletarian exhausted even by less rapacions to canses explained above-ab- science, the chief purpose of which methods than those employed by sence of light, beating &c. but For secession was to prove the inevitability of the Bolshevists. It is thus with also to complete isolation from the dictatorship of the proletariat fuel. There is a colossal fuel foreign countries, to the lack f literature. scientific and the justification of all the famine. This has led to the clos modern methods of Soviet administration,ing of about two-thirds of the apparatus, &c. It is not in a less EXPLOITING THE PROFESSORS. scientific institutions, as the con-degree doe also to inner causes. Following these precepty. theditions did not allow of any pro-Life from day to day, with con- People's Commissariat for Educa-ductive work. Thus, the women's stant anxieties for the morroow, ceded the vote one of the speakers,
and University
the Psycho uncertainty as to the fate of the advocating affiliation with Mos- tion now sought to replace the Neurological Institute in Petro-country in general, and similar co, compendiously suromed up the result recorded the congress old "bourgeous" science by a
"the right of the dealing with home affairs, and. Dew proletarian science. Their grad were closed, the teaching questions, have the most disheart-the priciples of the Soviet Govtorned its attention to resolutions usual methods of reconstruction staff and students being partly ening effect on the psychal con-ernment as are very radical; anything that included in the university staff. dition of the intelligent class, working class to impose its will among other decisions, passed, statement by Mr. Smillie, a re- obstructs their way is demolished, and partly left to chance, or to producing in it a kind of stopor on the capitalist class by any without discussion and after a In the middle of the discussion solution in favour of the nation- and in its place nothing new is and work in the provinces and in or apathy with regard to all things action that may seem best."
not connected directly with the
Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald inter-alisation of mines. crested. This, they explain by the newly opened high schools.
Rera we
are approaching {struggle for existence.
vened with a reference to the A resolution in favour of local the state of civil war fostered by
that cannot be fully
"May By prosperity "enjoyed by option, moved by Mr. Philip, the Entente, which does not give
the third international. Could Snowden on behalf of the In the mysteries of the Soviet sys-
anybody deny that the third Independent Labour Party," was! ternational meant revolution by carried
& card
vote by As regards science, the Bolshe-tem. The question Daturally
violence? (Cries of "No" and 2,003,000 to 622,000. vists have adopted a different arisas, what sense is there in
A meeting of members of the "Yes. It is all very well" On a card vote the motion for method. They know that if closing the old and renowned they expel the old scientific staff scientific institutions and opening House of Commons in support of continued Mr. Macdonald, to total probibition was defeated by As a matter the proposed Channel Tunnel talk about revolution by your an over-whelming majority, the be able to Industrial Cantras of the United Kingdom and they will never
of fact, the case is very simple. If was held at the House recently own fireside. If we use our | figures being: replace them by "proletariko scientiste, as they will not find it became universally known that under the presidency of Sir power, we can make a Social more than four or five scientists highschools are being everywhere Arthur Fell, who was supported Revolution without the socom- in Russia who belong to the Com-closed, it would serve to lay still by Mr. J. R. Clynes, Mr. T. Ppaniments of blood and violence."
The resolution in favour of munists Party. For this reason ore stress on the disastrous con-O'Connor, and Sir William Ball.
WHAT THE SOVIET MEANS State purchase and control was they have decided to exploit the ditions to which the Bolshevist The Chairman moved the follow- this resolution "That
Mr. Macdonald's ples did not defeated by a narrow majority, professors of the old regime as rule had reduced the whole coun-ing far as possible. They declared try. Their object, however, is to meeting strongly urges the sance please Mr. Joseph King, the re-.352.000 votes being cast - in very cynically that until they demonstrate to the world that the tion of the Government te presentative of the Guildford
* MINIMUM INCOME FOR ALL, tunnal Socialists; but it was strongly had a scientific personnel of their Soviet system is most encourag-the construction of
under the Channel to unite enforced by Mr. Tom Shaw, M.P At the afternoon session, the own, they intended to utilize the ing to bigber education.
the railways systeme of France who has come back from Hussis most interesting proposal was red scholars belonging to the work- And, it appears, they bave not and England should no longer be primed with information about of a minimum income for every
ing and peasant classes, after failed in producing the desired postponed, both in the interest of what the. Soviet Government body.
commerce of the two really mexar.
* This was, fá be secured by which they would manage to get affect. They have opened a series the
The atatements of the Bolshe collection of 20 per Along without the help of the of new high schools: Geographicountries, and a sign to the former. In other words, those cal Institute, Astronomical In-world that. France and England viks, said Mr. Shaw, were direct, national income who do not comply with their stitute, Institute of Social are united by bonds of friendship honest and frank. Lenin told the amount to col programme will be cast into the Sciences, Institute of Elocution, which are stronger than tresties, him that it was a foolish-ides to distribut streets after they have done Institute of Radium, Institute for and which will be proof against anume that the democracy pez with their services.
the study of the Bram, Chemico any questions or dificulties that would ever come to that broadca In order to create their own Pharmaceutical Institute, and msy at any time arise. The ras of conception that, would unsulmonly find them to obtain power by the Intellectuals, the Bolsheviste bave what not. The opening of these resolution. "EIS Lopened the doors of the univer-institutions WEE WESÏY, Mivartis adopted:
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