The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-14
Letter from Germany.
UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG,
January 10, 1884.

5S@ So UNIVERSITY Of.- AE1rAAu3
January 10, 1884.
E,r,or Intslzioeacer
The universitv. of Leipzig has connect.
!. ed with il, At present, about one hundred
and eighty.four Professors, including
those denominated "Privat.docenten,"
whose Office i explained in my letter
from Gottingen. There are, this seme-
ster, three thousand four hundred stu
dents in this University.
AS is generally known, the instruction
is given entirely by lectures, with rars
exceptions. In some of the sanskris
classes, sohicb are snaA, the students are
asked 20 read. The only other exception
of which am informed is the SEMINARY
InSthe 'Tolk in the Semlnarles OF Ian"
guage the students rho are regular mem"
bers are expected to work and give the
results of their Investigations. This
work is very difficult. In the efreeE
Seminary only Latin Is spoken ana IN ynh
I is true OF the hasln SEMINARY. II"
Greek Seminary mas Dus Twelve memoeis'
and each applicant for membership must
submit 9 work which he has performed,
showing merit sufficient to engage in the
discnasiopa and work OF the Seminary,
bes0reshe is admitted to memo fship.
The Seminary is conducted BY a Profess
or Of the University, and the work ls
usually the Interpretation OF some author
selected BY him, The plan OF these
Seminaries Is very closely followed by
the Johns Hopkins University, though
in this latter institution no Latin is
spoken, and English is the language Of
commnnication and the medium of in
stespretation.
The work Of the Seminary is select
and special. The general instruction OF
the University is through lectures. Ihe
students are allowed entire freedom as to
What lectures they attend. They select
the courses of lectures which they will
hear, and take notes upon them, which
gives the character of dictation exercise to
the school-room work, especially in the
departments of Language, Law, History,
Philosophy, etc. in which no experl.
sments are performed, as are in the de-
partmen.s of Natural Science.
At these lectures the student has point
ed out to him the most important topics
related to the subject of the course in
question and the main sources OF infor-
nation relating thereto. The lectures
embrace 9 critical treatment of the sub-
ject by the Professor, and then leave tho
student to Investigate the facts and au:
shorities for himself Occasionally, in
discussing the origin of certain obscure
forms ia language, the Professor states
his view and then refers tohis own works
10 snbstantiate it, which is, as it were, an
ssargnmentin in circlen (the "circle" be-
! ing that comprising his own brain); but
G that is rare exception. The Professors
discuss the subjects, 80 far as my egpsrS,
c,,ce goes. with fairness and ability, Civ.
inp the student the best views pro and
/ o,n and s. nowhere is investigation more
tho-on6 /, ti1an in the German Uniyersi-
5 ties A student of Language may prop
ihimself up with translations in some of
I our American Colleges, but in the Ger.
man ma uniyersity his scholarship is his
5onlv ,,I,l,,t annnort
hon. fonr hundred students attend a
coprsa of lectures in Law. given by Prof.
5Iv;o,,.cbe;d & This ia a large class for
this subject The size is due in this case,
a. IN others to the reputation of the
Lecturer; but this does not mean that
Won may measure Professors reputa-
tion BY the number of his hearers. In
sanskrit the classes are very small,
though the Professors quite renowned.
5 Rut Il dloes mean that if the Professor
has no raputation. he will have no hear
ana
About four or Eve hundred study Med.
icine. In this study, however, the Uni
yersity of Vienna has better reputa,
ton, and ranks with that at Paris and
that in London. During last Winter
there were about FIVE thousand students
at the University of Vienna, three thou
sand ofswLom were students of Medi-
cine. Tbe number Of students here who
attend the lectures in Greek BY Prof.
Curtius is about ninety, and a less num-
ber attend the lectures in Greek by Prof.
T,insius -