LOUIS AGASSIZ 15 



You can imagine how useful this must be 

 in preparing us to speak in public and 

 with coherence. The experience is the 

 more important, since we all desire 

 nothing so much as sooner or later to 

 become professors in very truth, after 

 having played at professor in the 

 university. " 



The change from Heidelberg to Mu- 

 nich worked very well. A far more 

 stimulating intellectual life awaited the 

 eager young fellows among the group of 

 distinguished professors whom Ludwig, 

 the art-loving Bavarian king, had gath- 

 ered for his new University of Munich. 

 We in America are accustomed to see 

 Minerva spring in full panoply from the 

 fertile brain of some millionaire, a 

 Danae rather than a Jove. But in the 

 older world it is rare to find a university 

 made in a day and successfully createcj 

 by fiat, and thus the brilliant opening 

 of the University of Munich has especial 

 interest. The names of Schelling and 



