4.] [Footnote 2: The name applies on the European continent to secondary schools.

A Russian _gymnazia_ (and similarly a German _gymnazium_) has an eight years' course.

Its curriculum corresponds roughly to a combined high school and college course in America.] [Footnote 3: _i.e._, schools found in the capitals of districts (or counties), preparatory to the _gymnazia._] [Footnote 4: See above, p.58 and below, p.174.] In this connection the Jewish Committee warmly debated the question as to whether the right of residence outside the Pale should be accorded to graduates of the higher and secondary educational institutions, or only to those of the higher.

The Ministers of the Interior and Public Instruction (Lanskoy and Kovalevski) advocated the former more liberal interpretation.

But the majority of the Committee members, acting "in the interests of a graduated emancipation," rejected the idea of bestowing the universal right of residence upon the graduates of _gymnazia_, and _lyceums_ and even upon those of universities and other institutions of higher learning, [1] with the exception of those who had received a learned degree, Doctor, Magister, or Candidate.