Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1887 — Austrian Student Life. [ARTICLE]

Austrian Student Life.

The students of the Vienna University, celebrated r .tlier for their love of an occassional fight and their predilection for cliques than for their sympathy with quiet study and “brotherly love,” are endeavoring to bring about a reform. They have published on the blackboard of the university an “open letter, ” in which an appeal is made by “a small circle of colleagues who have become acquainted with each other in the lecture-room, the laboratory, or at the dissecting table,” inviting all students to help in bringing about a reform of student life at Vienna. “Have we a united student life?” the letter asks. “Are we all alike before science, which belongs to all? Unfortunately we have to answer no, we are not. We are separated by national aspirations i.and by religions prejudices; our student organization consists of tho broken parts of what was once a beautiful, perfect vessel. * * * Our conventicles serve only the cult of : Bacchus, and not infrequently the ! treatment of things with which the ! ideal,youth should have nothing to do.” { The committee intends to make pracj tical proposals as to the reform of stu- ! dent life at meetings, which will be orj ganized by the energetic party of re- : formers, who, however, seem to hare ! forgotten the well-known fact, proved on innumerable occasions, that what is : an Austrian's meat is almost always a | Czech’s poison. And the latter are | very numerous at the Vienna University.