The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-27

life, when the student applies for de- gree--a doctors degree from Leipzig
 that pleasing, dreadful thought
 The great majority of native students do not aspire to a degree at all, but take lectures for two or three years,
 and then go their way. But, on the contrary, the American student is gen.
 orally there for doctors degree, the
 only one conferred by these universi- ties.
 Under these unfamiliar conditions
 the American student at Leipzig takes
 up his work. The university machine ry did not get into full operation until
 November 1. From eight o'clock in the
 morning until eleven at night, the lee
 ture rooms ring with the latest findings
 of science, and the most advanced
 truths which the German mind has dis
 covered, uttered by the two hundred
 professors of which the Leipzig faculty
 is composed. The lectures are of three
 kinds. Public lectures, which all stu
 dents may attend without charge; pri-
 vate lectures, for which a fee is
 charged, and which are presumably
 more valuable in the subject matter,
 and, finally, privatissime lectures, to which adnittance can be gained only upon consent of the professor and pay
 ment of a fec The American student is in no hurry to matrlculate, but the
 Teuton is wiser; the latter frequents the lectures for two or three weeks, se- lects his course at leisure, and Jingles his five dollar matriculation fee in his pocket a full month longer than does l his hasty American brother. My pass 1 port and college diploma were taken as
 sufficient credentials, and I was natri-
 culated without question.
 Three lectures day will constitute | regular work for the average student | The lectures are each of forty-five min utes' length, and are couched in purely 1 scientific terms, and are delivered usu- ally with more of enthusiasm than one would think possible, considering the
 subjects of some of them. For exam pie, the lecturer upon statistics be- walled in a half-hour discussion the inn possibility of taking an exact census, l because some must die and some must be born during the enumeration. The German professor is a specialist of the specialists; his mind is laid out on the pigeon-hole plan; he delights in refin- ing a subject until his most zealous nearer is lost in a maze of abstraction. He begins his course by confining his
 subject within solid wall of definition. carefully excluding all irrelevant mat ter; he then sets to work classifying,
 refuting, comparing, Illuminating all with the light of his own intellect, un- til the result is an array of truth as or derly as a checker board. HIS life | work is to exhaustively treat one sub- ject; his business is to know all that can be known about it. He is the auto crat of the lecture room, and his utter
 ances are undisputed truth to his hear i CTS.
 1 From the strict regime of the Ameri- can college 1t is a relief to find that 1 here the university imposes no rules of habit or conduct; the student is an-
 swerable to no one for the quantity or l quality of his work or for the disposal
 of his time. It is a freedom of which he had not before dreamed. He can absent himself from lectures for weeks
 at time, can remain as ignorant as he