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:No rituelen! is reqmrva to oe preseni ut any exeroise of thu university; and the facts ure that uiany men are here w ho pay their bilis uud scarce'y for a whola term. enter the lecture-room. Jlecttationg are unknuwn. The professor leeturei uwinterruptedly frora the beginning to the end ui' hia forty five minutes (for in all these iustitátioiifl they have long sinoa found out ifaat tliat s long enough for prufit.) No question is askod by the profossor, none by any student. Ifthose who liave paid for the leeturesare present, very well ; but if uot, uo inquiry is iiütdtí, nu discipliue is adrainistered. 80 if a young man is disposed to waste his time, and spurid his mouthsia dissipation, that is his own concern, and neither the professor nor the president nterferes. - Accordingly I am informed that the loosest moralu prevail, and drinkiug, garubling, and dualing. The buildings are solely for lecturerooms, library and cabinets. In eome of them, as at Gottingen, the rooms occupied for lectures iu the different departmeuts are scattered over the towo. In others, as at Halle, Leipsic, and I believe also at Berliu and Bono, they are all in the same building, or in buildings closely connected. A clock in the centre hall anr.ounces each hour, nnd lectures cummence at fifteen minutes past. The halls present a stirnng scène during thia interval. I have heard no hallooing, or anything approaching to it; but iu an institution embracing, as the one at Leipsic, a thousand studeuts, or as that at Berlin, two thousaml, you iu;iy easily conceive that the halls are pretty well thronged during a considerable part ot the fifteen minutes. The lectures begin at Berlin - and I speak of this mure particulurly because I was there louger than anywhere else - at 8 o'clock in the morning, and continue uuiuterruptidly until 8 o'clock in the evening. This is necessary in order to accommodiUe as fully as possible all who wish to atteud them. The whole thing being optioual, the student attends one or more leetures, aa he may elect ; the expense beiog in the ratio of the number - each studout paying each locturer two Louw (Vor for the term. A Louis (Tor ia tbout $4 in gold of our money. If' a student attends five leotures a day, his tuition is over $80 a year. If he comea without, auy thought of study, he maj matricúlate, and save all expense of leotures. Ordinarily, however, these rockless fellows pay for two or three lectures, iind this stands us so much to their credit whtíu they comu tu apply for their degree. I have said that students are held to uo responsibility for attending lectures; and vou will naturally inquire how the hotiors of the university are conferred? ïbe answer is this : When a studeut p regenta himself for a degree the queatioii is uot where, or when, he geeured the neeelBfy qualiücatious for such a degree? i but, does l)e possess them ? and this the Swwste procted to ascertain by some sort of exauiiiiation. This is the theory; and I h:ive heaid it often said or hioted in A.ineiica by the special admirers of the Goriiian system, that the examinai tious uro very rigid, and degrees are oonI t'crrua on;y p.pon clear proof of merii. - Tuut. is tlieiheory; facts will scarcely i sustaiii t, L fear. And I am iüformed ! timt siudeuts who dissipate full half the tiuiu iiud no difficulty in getting their áge Examinations never amount to us miu-li as tlio testimonj of daily observatimi iu the lecture-room. Aud they i ate us superficial in Germany as