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heen. painted often enough by imelee: ob-
servers, [ may better be allowtd to point
out what the German student: gained, and
I venture to ‘hope, permanently gained, from
his éxperience during» this time.” Though
perhaps the: standard of learning of the ave-
rage student may have gone down somewhat
beneath pre-war standards, he has had a new
experience which may be judged as out-
weighing this loss, an experienge that has
postively become part of his education. He
has been brought into contact with the life
of the Workingmen in the factory and the
mine and on the field) He knows now some-
thing tangible about the workingman’s ex-
istence that had once been $0 far from the
pre-war student’s almost Gilbertian gaiety.
He has received a schooling of inestimable

so often distinguish themse'ves by their
aloofness from actual life. The working side
by side of laborer and student has brought
about a new understanding between formerly

social place in a country where class differ-
ences were always so marked. The student’s
own co-operative ‘enterprises taught him the
great lesson of co-operation, which is so
highly necessary under the circumstances of
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Signs of Reaction:

It is far too early to say that this awaken-
ing of the German student .to social con-
$ciousness is to become permanent. There
are indications enough of a relapse into
leading a sort of dream-existence from the
far from pleasant realities of today. There
are those, and many of them wear. the colored
caps, who long for the times of 1871-1914
the time of an exuberant materialism, ma-
terial wealth and external power; let us ca‘l
them the reactionaries for the shortness of
the term. There are, furthermore, those
who do not want reaction but conscious re-
version to the life and ‘socal order on a

purer plan as, they imagine, it existed in the

Middle Ages, when, as the German romantic

“Value for the Titure official arc judge;-who-mystic, Novalis, declared in his famous frag-

ment. Christianity and Europe, written in
1799, and often cited in these days, “spiritual
forces governed the European world, when
belief and love as the more beautiful blos-

soms of her youth hung over Europe which |

have since, alas, given room to the less finer
fruits which are knowledge and possession.”

A sociology of the German student life
would have to recognize that the cohesive
impulses within these two categories are
much stronger than in that big body in which
the general German student body is organiz-
ed today, the Deutsche Studentenschaft,
founded in 1919, a fact that cannot astonish
anybody who has some knowledge of the
pluralistic structure of our modern world
in which the old forces sie all the powers
of the strangling grip of «a doomed man
she Deutsche Stude settealigat is an attempt
of bringing together all students into one
big powerful body involving a declaration
of the autonomy and self-government of the
“academic citizens,” far as their own
sphere goes, and under their own constitu-
tion. It is well worth reminding the foreign

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|reader_ that the German universities always.

even under the old regime, enjoyed a certain
autonomy and that there existed some sort
of special jurisdiction over students.

This new national body comprises the
local committees at the several universi-
ties. These are recognized as corporations
by the state laws. The membership is
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each semester. Foreign students share
neither in the privileges
The main functions of the local commit-
Ktees are: representation of the whole
student body; chdrge of the academic self-
governing powers; participation in the
administration. of those university affairs
directly concerning the student body; aca-
dem‘c discipline and jurisdiction; advance-
ment of athletics; administration. of self-
help organizationss For part of these
activities special offices (Amter) have been
created, as for example ldw offices that
give judicial advice, offices that help the
newcomer to find a room, athletic and
employment offices, offices that buy and
sell bdoks at moderate prices, etc.
Athletics Growing

__Athletic activities have as yet never played
a large role in the German student's life. At
its last year’s national meeting, , however,
the Studentenschaft has resolved that evety
able-bodied student, foreign students again
exempted, has ‘to take part in athletics of
some kind. A little while ago the ministry
of education of one of the federal states,
following a resolution of the faculty and
the Studentenschaft of the University of
Jena, published a decree that after Oc-
tober 1, 1925, nobody will be allowed to
enter university examinations in this state
unless he can prove that he has actually
taken part in these activities...The pur-
pose of resolutions and decrees like these
may be duly deemed just as laudable as
the means to this eyd seem to us dubious;
this the tore because they endanger one
of the sacred and not altogether wrong
iraditions of German univergity life, that
of absolute freedom for the student ‘of
selecting his own courses and occupation
and shap:ng his own mode of life.
cannot but express the apprehension that
ths big enthusiasm for sports which
-characterizes- American university life and
wheh the visitor of this country for the
greater part admires, cannot be created
of coercion, but all decisions
like these are far from final and are ex-
press:ons of a good will for new forms
and activities. -
Science Emphasized

These changes within the student body
accompany an even more important
change of the whole structure of the Ger-
man university as an institute of learning.
Already this struggre has become less
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another ideal of humanity* is coming up
as well as a new conception of the
sciences. There is a certain conflict, be-
tween the different standpoints as to life
of the physical, aétual and_ technical
sciences on the one side and the mental
sciences (philosophy, history, linguistics,
law, etc.) on the other.. Modern natural
science is by its very nature more closely
connected with practical life. The mental
sciences, however, have retained their “un-
utilitarian” view of the classical conception
of studies and this tendency is still pre-
ponderant jy the faculties of philosophy,
which include besides philosophy, history
of all kinds, psychology, languages, etc.,
so much that in spite of their splendid dis-
coveries and achievements the technical
colleges
gained equal rank with the universities

conception the’ younger ones.of every age

tion ‘of science as necessarily connected
with life. They want a phénomenological
manner of observing and approaching

historical and sociological; furthermore a
systematic summing up of the endless
mass of specialized knowledge instead of
the incessant raising of isolated problems
which threatens to lead to an ovérgrowing

summing up of results, of a, seeing-to-
gether of facts and currents, a more inti-
mate union of the artistic form and the
results of investigation is hoped for, a
synthesis which has made its appearance
in the works. of scholars like Wilhelm
Dilthey, Frederick Gundolf, Ernst Ber-
tram, and Oswald Spengler,

So in many ways the time, when it was
possible to substitute learning for educa-
tion, is brought nearer to its end. ‘Besides
the meré intellectual training, religion,
art, social ethics. a new consciousness. of
the human body have become factors of
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education ended, have to act and use
their acquired knowledge.”

They plan first to cover the ground of
labor history, and the problems of labor,
and to find out what branches of labor
are advisable for college students. Stu-

tatives of labor and to hear about the
new and little known experiments of the

workers. Among these Mr.
mentioned the .bank established by the
Amalgamated Woolen Workers, Labor,
the newspaper published by the American
Federation, and the co-operative home for
workers, made"by them here in Pennsyl-
vania out of a bankrupt hotel.

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