Students had come to be considered a dubious and dangerous body of young men who could not even be allowed to meet in small groups in each others' rooms, still less to have any kind of societies or clubs. Even in 1914 H W Williams wrote of them: "The students are held to their book-learning, their minds are fed on abstractions, they are artificially held aloof from the normal process of life that creates its own forms and build strong characters. It is no wonder that students in this position become absorbed in abstract politics, or when bitter experience has shown the futility of politics, are oppressed by the sheer emptiness of life, grow reckless, live morally and materially from hand to mouth, and in large numbers find refuge in suicide."
Chekhov and His Russia: a sociological study by W H Bruford. 1947. Page 147-8.
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