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 Bursché, 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