The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-06-29
JAIL FOR STUDENTS.
QUEER PHASE OF LIFE At HElpEL-
BERG UNIVERSITY.
Some of the Names which Adorn the
Prison Register and the "Crius" FoS
which Their Owners Were Inc.ro Grated.
The Rules Of the Place.

Prison Register and the "Crirn,s" FoS
The Rules Of the Place.
In England the students body is com
mitted to prison only by the civil au-
thority. In Oxford, it is true, the vice
chancellor deals with undergraduate
naughtiness, principally in the form of
debt and insubordination, for which he
may impose a momontary penalty, but
he does not deprive the defaulter of lib
erty. There is, or was, a legend that Il
certain apartment under the old Claren
don building was really the university
"quod," but for its authenticity it is
impossible to vouch.
Cambridge has its spinning house for
female offenders-not lady students, but
ladies who might prove delusion and
q snare to the mere male undergrad
There, If we except the irksomc penalty
of "gating" confinement to college or
lodgings after stated hour), our aca-
demic efforts at incarceration may be
said to end.
In Germany, however, the academic
dungeon is a very stern fact The Hci.
delberg career" is famous. Every read.
or of Mark Twain will recall his enter
tanning description of the place and
how he ,ontrived to visit il, even unwit.
tingly enlisting as his guide Herr
Professor. His pretext was to see
young friend who had "got" "a hours
and had conveniently arranged the day
to suit Mark-for the German student
convict goes to prison on the first suit.
able day after conviction and sentence
If Thursday Is not convenient, he tells
the officer sent to hale him to Jail that
he will come on Friday or Saturday or
Sunday, as the case may be. The officer
never doubts his word and it is never
broken.
The prison is up three flights of stairs,
and is approached by "zugang' as
richly decorated with the art work of
convicts as the cell itself. The apart
ment is not roomy, but bigger than an
ordinary prison cell 1t has an iron
grated window, small stove, two
wooden chairs, two old oak tables and
q narrow wooden bedstead.
The furniture is profusely ornaml at-
ed with carving, the work of languish-
ing captives, who have placed ON record
their names, armorial bearings, their
crimes and the dates Of their imprison-
ment together with quaint warnings
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executed in colored chalk and in soot
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