The Student-Life of Germany

by William Howitt

[The General Beer-Comment of Heidelberg]

LIST OF GERMAN SONGS.

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

1. [The Sword Song]
2. [The German Fatherland]
3. [The Union Song]
4. [Are German Hearts]
5. [We Builded Ourselves]
6. [The Fox-Ride]
7. [Free is the Bursch]
8. [The Wirthin's Daughter]
9. [God greet Thee, Brother Straubinger]
10. [True Love]
11. [The Departure]
12. [The Gallant Ship is going]
13. [The Four Elements]
14. [There Twinkle Three Stars]
15. [Roundelay]
16. [The Krähwinkler Landsturm]
17. [The Binschgauer's Pilgrimage]
18. [Drinking Song]
19. [The Pope]
20. [Drinking Song]
21. [Rhine-Wine]
22. [Prince Eugene]
23. [Commers Song]
24. [An Unbounded Jollity]
25. [Gaudeamus Igitur]
26. [Old Noah]
27. [Old-fashioned Bursch]
28. [The Travel Song]
29. [The Landsfather]
30. [Prince of Fools]
31. [Ways of the Students]
32. [Crambambuli]
33. [Song of Wine]
34. [The Departing Bursch]
35. [The Old Bursch]

THE

STUDENT LIFE OF GERMANY.

[CHAPTER I.]

GENERAL PLAN, OFFICERS, AND COURTS, OF A GERMAN UNIVERSITY

Jerusalem beautifully observes, that the barbarism which often springs up behind the loveliest and most richly-coloured flower of knowledge, may be a kind of strengthening mud-bath, to prevent the over-delicacy which threatens the flower; and I fancy that one who reflects how far knowledge usually climbs in a student, will allow the so-called Burschen life to the Sons of the Muses, as a kind of barbarous Middle-age, which may so far fortify them as to prevent this delicacy of refinement exceeding its due bounds.--Jean Paul Richter's Quintus Fichslein.

Student Life! Burschen Life! What a magic sound have these words for him who has learnt for himself their real meaning! What a swarm of recollections come over him who has once visited that land, however long it may be since he returned homeward to a safer haven! Youth flies on wings of impatience towards this happy time; age, though indeed it may smile over the recollection of many a folly, recalls its memory with delight.