text:  As it is not my intention to dwell upon the vicissitudes of my career at the high school and university I shall merely say that attending very little to the conventional and arbitrary distinctions by which the students of Germany choose to classify themselves--caring still less for _chores_ _brand-foxes_ and _Burschenschafft_ and nothing at all for noisy suppers and their drunken _refrain_-- "Toujours fidele et sans souci C'est l'ordre du Crambambuli!"-- I very earnestly bent myself to second the intentions of my father