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PEAR OF FEMALE STUDENTS IN RUSSIA.

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All the female medical students in St. Petersburg-a class from which many redoubtable members of the Nihilist party have emanated-have just been compelled to take up their residence in a large boarding establishment, provided by the authorities, under the superintendence of Princess Shakafskoy, instead of being free, as heretofore, to live where they please. They are to pay ten rubles per month for board and lodging, and be at home before 9 o'clock in the evening, under penalty of exclusion from the medical course. Many of the ladies protested at first against this apparent restriction put upon their liberty, but eventually moved into their new official quarters. [St. Petersburg dispatch to the London Times.

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