Education: In Berlin

At Berlin University, students were dismayed, angered, by a statement of the rector, Dr. Roethe. Said he: “We have cleaned the University. Whoever considers studying must possess the necessary funds. Persons without money who wish to study must suffer hunger for the first two semesters.”

A year ago, reduction of dues for indigent students was promised for this fall. Regardless of whether German money values are now stable enough for the fulfillment of this promise and for the restoration of scholarships for first-year men, the poorer Berlin students read into the rector’s statement an attempt to purge the University of Democratic and Socialist elements. The rector is a “superpatriot” or Nationalist.