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all well, and all love you dearly, and hope you will still, as ever, 

 be our delight and pride. Be good, and devote yourself 

 seriously and whole-heartedly to your profession, to science, 

 and to virtue. Write as soon as possible to describe your 

 studies and your every-day life. We shall be delighted to 

 see you, provided your work allows it. If your companion 

 is a good fellow, and you think it would improve your rela- 

 tions with him, you can bring him with you later on/ 



The young student soon accommodated himself to his new 

 surroundings, and affectionately reassures his parents, who 

 were anxious about his food and lodging on account of his 

 weak health : 



'I am well. The classes have commenced to-day, and 

 regular work, which we hope will bring more quiet to our 

 room. So far these visitors have been rather unwelcome, 

 especially when I was practising, as they often expected 

 me to play valses, &c., for them. At last I would not do it 

 any more, and got my chum to play, while they sometimes 

 danced till, as Dr. Knapp told me, the company-surgeon below 

 complained of them. I have not sought their company very 

 much, so that K. tells me I am called unsociable. He advises 

 me to be patient, and says he also had to put up with the 

 seniors coming to his room and playing there (which is for- 

 bidden in the Institute), though he and his friend did not play 

 with them. My room-mate is good-natured, but not exactly 

 clever, as I see by his note-books, from which I wanted to 

 fill in my own, as I was not able to take notes myself to-day, 

 and also missed the first lecture on Splanchnology. I went 

 with him, as he has already been studying a whole half-year, 

 and he took me to the lecture-room in the University, where 

 Professor Schlemm generally lectures, and where on the time- 

 table at the door we saw " Mondays, 9-10, Prof. Schlemm ", 

 and a number of students already waiting. However, as we 

 did not find the others from the Institute, he went round to 

 make inquiries, and I waited for him near the notice-board, 

 but he lost himself in the crowd, and never reappeared. I went 

 back to the lecture-room, where more students had collected 

 meantime, but the Professor did not turn up. At last we went 

 to the anatomical theatre, behind the Garrison Church, and 

 heard that Professor Schlemm was really lecturing there. As 



