EARLY EDUCATION 
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to Lund, because a distant friend, stepson to Carl’s 
great-uncle (father’s mother’s brother), the well-to-do 
Canon Bonde Humerus, it was hoped might help the 
poor student. On the 14th August he began the 
journey from Stenbrohult, and on the 17th he arrived 
at Lund.” 
There his first problem was to seek his former 
tutor, Gabriel Hook, now Master of Philosophy, to 
obtain from him counsel and enlightenment. First 
he must be registered at the University, for which end 
he must be examined by the Dean of the Faculty of 
Philosophy, which was the custom down to the year 
1831. The Dean was the Professor of Rhetoric, 
Carl Papke, afterwards Bishop of Lund. After he 
had been passed on the 19th August, the same day 
he inscribed his name in the matriculation list of the 
faculty of philosophy. Accompanied by Magister 
Hook, he proceeded to the Rector, and Divinity 
Professor, Martin Hegardt, who, after he had read the 
testimonial from Vaxjo schools, received the oath 
of the student, whose name was then inscribed in the 
University Matriculation List. He ought strictly 
after this, to have inscribed himself in the Smaland’s 
Nation, but he neglected to do so, which was—without 
reason—interpreted as his desire to live the life of a 
recluse. The reason for this was nothing else than 
his unwillingness to subject himself to the then 
“ penalism ” or fagging system prevalent at Lund. 
This had been entirely forbidden by a royal decree of 
the 25th November, 1691, and Professor Dobeln 
had, as Rector, in 1717, acted strongly to outroot this 
flourishing penalism, which persisted in spite of the 
king’s letter styling it “ invincible and diabolical ”; 
but at the time of Linnaeus’s arrival at Lund, the 
coarsest nuisance and the grossest bullying which were 
inflicted by the senior members of the Nations on the 
newly arrived country youths were nominally sup¬ 
pressed, but they still continued. Therefore it was 
not uncommon for students newly arrived at Lund 
