Show universities MAY BE CLOSED owing to disorders caused by revolutionary element st petersburg oct 5 despite the grant of autonomy placing the administration and policy of the universities versi ties in the hands of elected i council 0 professors who are thoroughly in sympathy with the reform work the educational situation is darkening and there in a prospect that the hot headed zeal of student reformers and the activity of agitators at students meetings may lead to another suspension of work at the universities prince doimer president of the congress and rector of the moscow university and who is the foremost liberal in russia has with ane approval of the council of professors fes sors already been forced to close that university temporarily owing to the packing of student assemblies by outside agitators and oie council ot the st petersburg university has warned the students that the participation of the outsiders in their meetings cannot be permitted the samo state of affairs Is reported at odessa and other universities the majority of tho students apparently are desirous of continuing their studies but they arc not organized and cannot make headway against the carefully organized campaign of the revolutionary parties who uso the reopening of the universities for the furtherance of their propaganda and whose members in the universities though forming a comparatively small proportion of the students are able through the activity of their organization and tho natural of the less radical students to be accused of to dictate resolutions and sway all meetings the st petersburg students have instituted a boycott on their professors who are disliked on account of their political opinions and have broken up their classes by disorder among those boycotted are the former rector professor and professor who is a senator of ahe empire and one of the foremost authorities ties on russian penal procedure |