General View of Student-Life.--Student-life an admirable field for
bringing a young man speedily to a knowledge of life, and to a
sense of self-government and self-dependence--Prejudice,
especially amongst foreigners, that Students must become exposed
to many unpleasantnesses--these groundless--every individual
Student independent, and at liberty to associate just as little,
or as mach as he pleases with the rest--Equality the law of the
German Students--their opinion that the English are the slaves of
the Aristocracy--their surprise at the Aristocratic prejudices of
the English--Academic freedom dear to every German Student--its
value acknowledged by all the greatest men--Influence of the
associate life of the Students on their minds and manners--
including, as it does, the natives of so many Countries--Chores,
or Unions--Landsmannschafts--the Burschenschaft--Wearing of Union
Badges forbidden--Public Processions, and Costumes of the
Professors