The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-24

to reserve your place. If ne has a
place you get it, If he has not you
are out and it is regarded as mere
matter of fatality.
But assuming that you get all your
places then you yourself write them
down by title and number and name
of Professor in your "Colleagean
Buch."
Then you pay the Quaestor what
| ever sum attaches to those courses
they vary greatly-and he receipts
you in the book. On tine last day OF
the course the Professor signs also.
Thus you got i'm, you paid, you got
out So far as / know, there is no
grade and no written record OF at
| tendance
| If you can pass your examination
for a degree without coming to class
well ard good Men have been
known to actually do that thing. 50
| far as that is concerned it works out
much the same with graduate stud
ents in American Universities and all
here are graduate students.
| During these first days it has been
very pleasant to nave visiting here
DR.. Edward Burton Livingston Of
Carnegie Institute. He has been do
ing some work at Munich and came
out here to visit Leipzig, among
other universities, before going home
He attended Prof Pfeffer's lectures
while here and we had some visiting
together. 1t helped good deal to
see him several times while the ice
was breaking.
Already the strangeness is much
less. Even the lack of German is a
sort OF matter of course that we have
| gotten into the habit OF expecting to
outgrow. AS matter of fact it will
take some time to do that, though it
is getting a little easier for me 70
read The lectures do not begin to
come very much yet.
A good many words | know and
get some general idea but when it
comes night down TO the point | miss
it, But 1T will improve.
My botany laboratory work is com
| ing on for things look the same
through a microscope in German as
in English.
| read Strassburger's as fast as
can to keep up with the laboratory
work and by the time the lectures
are understandable, III hope to have
the information from reading. There
is lot of hard work, but it is tie
most delightful work as we'll Among
my instructors, Prof. Correns speaks
slowly and very distinctly and VIII be
great help in learning the German.
1t will be pretty fine to get the Ian
guage SO we cam pick acquaintance
among our neighbors many of whom
seem to be among the best in the
world.
In some ways you would be
shocked at the way the women work
here. Nearly all she shops are tend
ed entirely or partly by women
There seems to be a few exceptions
in the larger stores down in the city
Women bring milk, haul apples, dig
potatoes and one passes them on the
street with a dog harnessed to a lit
tie wagon hauling what not No
doubt they do work extremely and
one need have no patience with the
extremity, but they are strong, these
mothers of tine sons of Germany.
They are out doors, under the open
sky. in the cold air, with earth under
their feet, and in spite of hard work
they seem to have health and some
happiness, and cool deal of con-
sentiment to the credit side OF life.
Contrast them with the other ex-
IRENE Nothing to do-slm and len
der with no room for lungs and so
artificial as not TO know pure air.
Shielding the sun off with hade-
sick, puny, idle, aimless, worthless,
expensive, unhappy. If extremes
there must be. it is easy to know
which is best for the nation and the
individual
Nov. 16.
You write that you have been
reading of cold in Germany. There
has been no bitter cold and no snow
to speak of here in Leipzig though
there has been skating most of the
time since we came. As yet we have
no means of knowing whether that
is usual or not.
Our dwelling is all brick and plast-
er work and mas double windows. The
wind does not sweep through but it
is damp Not only the house itself
but the climate is damper than at
home On the other hand we have
not needed an umbrella since we
came.
We cannot yet advise all Ameri-
cans to install tile stoves. If you get
one of the things up to luke warm,
which is the best you can hope to do,
your room will be somewhat COM
Portable, because the stove holds so
much heat. For instance when we
came home from church today, both
fires went out but that was not alarm
ing because they had burned up
pretty we'll and ting stoves were right
warm.
The price of some goods here is
lower-of others about the same a.
at home. Wool goods are cheaper
cotton goods more | bought 100
pounds-that is centner, of sugar,