The German universities for the last fifty years / by Dr. J. Conrad, authorized translation by John Hutchinson and a preface by James Bryce.

  • Johannes Conrad
Date:
1885
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    classes are repelled from it by barriers which comparatively few are, without special favouring circumstances, able to surmount. Our material offers us but a limited and in- sufficient basis for judging whether the circumstances of the students were favourable or only moderate, and we are accordingly not in a position to set forth the whole subject in figures. Nothing but a thorough investigation of the credits * allowed to students could shed any more light on the subject, and yet, even for a single university for which alone we could procure it, our material is insufficient. Merely scanty facts are to be gleaned with more or less certainty from a numher of the headings. Our categories of merchants, among whom are included many needy small trades- men, of higher officials, even of fundholders, give but an imper- fect description of circumstances. Perhaps those who best answer to their description are the manufacturers and landed proprietors, although from vanity the son of many a mere ploughman may have slipped into the latter class. The sub- ordinate officials, the inferior teachers and attendants, and labourers are no doubt to be regarded as the un-moneyed classes; but in our province (Saxony) tlie peasant and even the artisan are not, simply as such, to be so regarded, The four un-moneyed classes just mentioned comprise in the last period 613, of whom there studied theology and philosophy 456, or 74-4 per cent.; medicine, 81, or 13'2 per cent.; and law, 76, or 12’4 per cent. The number of law students is to be regarded as relatively high. The sons of the 351 landed proprietors, fundholders, and manu- facturers, on the other hand, were distributed as follows ;— * [Students, especially sons of clergymen and public officials, who are unable to pay their fees when they enter the university, can still attend the classes if they promise to pay the fees within six years after obtainuig an appointment.]