The attendance at the German universities has been increasing of late years to an extent which causes alarm in some quarters. The number of students has gone up from 15, 113 in the summer of 1872 to 23,834 in the summer of 1882. This increase amounts to no less than 57.6 per cent. That the demand of modern life for men of education has increased to such an extent as this is regarded as more than doubtful by many authorities. An official warning has just been issued against students taking up the law as a profession, as its ranks are already hopelessly overcrowded.
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GRADUATE ATHLETIC ASS'N.
