Enthusiasm and Progress.

Living conditions were described in detail especially with regard to housing and meals. In particular, the running of a student hostel—once one of Peter the Great's barracks, now a self-contained student world—was fully described. Its only resemblance to Weir House was that it contained people of student age. For the rest, its organisation was democratic, politically directed, and closely bound up with the entire labour system.

The general life of the city people was outlined. In a short but interesting survey the witness testified to the enthusiasm and vitality of students and workers in general, the complete security against unemployment, the socialised system of medicine, the insurance and superannuation schemes, the interest in art and the theatre, the insatiable demand for books, the camaraderie of the whole people. The speaker's principal difficulty was, in fact, that he had too much information to impart.