16 LUBECK GRAMMAR-SCHOOL. 



become so engrained, that so far from my ardour 

 being damped I rather urged the tutor to my pace. 

 In subsequent years the thought has often given 

 me a pang, that I so often robbed the poor sick 

 man of his needful rest by remaining after the close 

 of lessons for hours together at my desk, quietly 

 ignoring all the little devices he employed to be 

 rid of me. 



On the death of the second tutor my father 

 determined to send brother Hans and myself to the 

 Lubeck grammar-school, the so-called Catherine 

 School, and carried out the plan after my confir- 

 mation in the parish church at Liibsee. As a result 

 of the entrance examination I was put in the upper, 

 and my brother in the lower fourth form. We were 

 placed in no regular boarding house , but lodged 

 with a Lubeck citizen, who at the same time boarded 

 us. My father had such an unbounded faith in my 

 trustworthiness that he also gave me the entire 

 custody of my somewhat giddy brother, whose law- 

 less nature had again come to the surface, as is evi- 

 dent from the nickname given him by the school 

 "mad Hans". 



St. Catherine's School, Lubeck, consisted of the 

 grammar-school proper and the city school, both 

 under the same head-master and having similar classes 

 as far as the fourth form of the grammar-school. The 

 latter at that time enjoyed considerable scholastic 

 repute. The instruction was mainly confined to the 

 dead languages. The teaching in mathematics was 



