Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. [ARTICLE]

UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE.

Essentially ths Same Today as Who* Established by Napoleon. In the United States there are many universities which are free from stats control, but in France there is only one university, and It to an absolute instrument of the state. It to true that there are schools of higher learning. which were founded in 1870 at unlverritiee, but five yearn afterward the title was withdrawn, and they art now called “instituts.” They are fivt in number and are located in Parte, Lille, Lyons, Toulouse and Angers. But the University of France te an entirely different organization. It it the official school. It te centralized in Parte and has under It a vast multitude of establishments, faculties, college and primary schools, distributed over the whole surface of the country. Directly or indirectly they all depend on the government The university was established by Napoleon, and- in spite of certain modifications which it has undergone during years It is the same today in its essential elements as the day he founded it Just as be established the entire civil administration, with its prefects, subprefects, judges, ministers of finance, so he Created In 1804 this vast educational organization, with Its countless professors, who* con* trol the entire Intellectual training of France.—America.