Chapter I

General Plan, Officers, and Courts, of a German University--Charm of
this life to those who have passed through it--Explanation of
the term _Bursche_, or Student--Right to found or dissolve
Universities, retained by the Sovereign Princes--Offices and mode
of government--The Curatorium--Rector, Prorector--Senate, greater
and less--Different orders of Professors and Teachers--mode of
their remuneration--University Board of Finance--its Court of
Justice--Academical freedom, and mode of matriculation--Inferior
officers, and penalties for offences against the Academical
laws--College terms--mode of Lecturing, and duties of Lecturers--
necessary Examinations of the Students, and consequent
Certificates--Sciences taught--Privileges and endowments to enable
young men without property to enjoy all the advantages of the
Universities--the great extent to which this is made available,
and great advantages to the State derived from it--Opinion of
Goethe on this head--Great Men that this has produced--no German,
however exalted in rank, can hold a high position in society,
without making himself master of the knowledge thus opened to the
people