62 REMINISCENCES OF 



she can exercise in the ministration of her discipline will not adequate- 

 ly express her abhorrence of the offence, hei deep solicitude for her 

 sons, and her firm determination to do all that she can to keep them un- 

 harmed. 



Would that every young man could duly appreciate the wisdom of 

 those regulations which guard his access to the waters of destruction ! 

 Would that all could cheerfully submit to the prescriptions of wisdom, 

 designed to preserve them from the most fatal maladies ! Against this 

 vice, then, in conclusion, whilst we point out the reasonableness of the 

 requisition made of you, be warned. Let nothing induce you to take 

 the first step. Touch not; handle not. Let no plea however insinua- 

 ting, no consideration however captivating, lead you to make the initia- 

 tive — for here, if any where, may it be said : 



" Facilis descenaus Jlverni : 

 JYocfes atquc dies pafet alri janua DUis : 

 Sed rcvocare gradum., superasque evadcre ad cmras, 

 Hoc opus.) hie labor est. " 



Your's, affectionately. 



REMIXI.SCENCES OF STUDENT LIFE IN GERMANY. 



As I threw aside the Journal this evening after reading the interest- 

 ing article of your correspondent J. G. M. in which he draws to the life 

 the portraits of some of his German acquaintances, I was carried back 

 in imagination to the golden days of my sojourn in the land of meer- 

 schaums and thought. Trom the study of Burmeister, the parlor of 

 Krug and the attic store-room of Erickson, to which his interest had led 

 me, my thoughts soon wandered to the Kriinzchen of Neander, the lec- 

 ture-room of Tholuck, the English re-union in Halle, the pietistic Knipe, 

 the Fackelziige, Stiindchen, Fechtboden, IMuseum, Comitat, &c. Sec, the 

 novelties, adventures, discomforts, &.c., of three terms experience at Ger- 

 man universities. How I happened to fall upon the idea of sharing the 

 pleasure of such reminiscences with the readers of the Journal, need 

 not now be told. Enough for me if some of them derive from these 

 hasty sketches a lithe of the satisfaction their preparation affords 



A constant reader of the Journal. 



AN ACADEMICAL COMMUNION. 



As we were sitting one day near the close of the winter session of 

 1842-3, in the largest lecture-room of the University at Halle, busily 

 engaged in taking down the well j)olishcd paragraphs of Julius Midler's 



