184 Organization of Wurtemburg University 
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_ The King of Wurtemberg, persuaded without doubt of 
the impracticability of entirely destroying the spirit of in- 
dependence which the wants of youth and the interests of 
science so naturally call into operation, has given to the 
University of Tubingen, a kind of representative. consti- 
tution, destined to regulate the discipline indispensable in 
those establishments, without injuring that portion of liber- 
erty which youth require. This little charter authorizes 
all the matriculated students to elect among themselves a 
council of 15, two thirds of whom are to be renewed every 
six months.. It is necessary in order to become eligible 
to this station, to have frequented the superior schools du- 
ring six months, and to have avoided all occasion of cen- 
sure from the commissioners of Discipline. This body 
thus organized, is charged to represent before the Aca- 
demic Authority, all the students. of the University, and 
to submit to that authority all sorts of complaints and prop- 
ositions, having for their object the perfection of their stu- 
dies and the welfare of the University. The elective 
council has also the right, without the approbation of the 
commissioners of. Discipline, to convoke the students in a 
general assembly. Its principal end is to watch over the 
morals and studies of the youngmen, to prevent quarrelsand 
disorders, and to put down all secret associations. During 
the year since’ this liberal constitution has been granted to 
the University, the happiest effects have resulted from it. 
This method, at once bold and profound, of meeting a 
question, which, ever since the era of the congress, has so 
‘much exercised the genius of diplomatists does as much 
honour to the wisdom, as to the probity of the government. 
The complete success of such an example may induce 
other states, placed in a similar situation, to abandon. the 
repressive measures latterly employed against the German 
youth, aid to adopt a system more conformable to the 
present state of knowledge and the interests of science. 
Rev. Encye. 
