One great drawback of the professorial system is certainly the small measure of personal advice that a student may get from the professors. Unless he is known to them personally, or has gained admission to their societies or seminaries, the young student or freshman is quite bewildered by the rich fare in the shape of lectures that is placed before him. Some students, no doubt, particularly in their early terms, solve this difficulty by attending none at all, and there is no force to make them do so, except the examinations looming in the distance. But there are many young men most anxious to learn, only they do not know where to begin. I open my old _Collegien-Buch_ and I find that in the first term or Semester I attended the following lectures, and I may say I attended them regularly, took careful notes, and read such books as were recommended by the professors. I find 1. The first book of Thucydides Gottfried Hermann. 2. On Scenic Antiquities The same. 3. On Propertius P. M. Haupt. 4. History of German Literature The same. 5. The Ranae of Aristophanes Stallbaum. 6. Disputatorium (in Latin) Nobbe. 7. Aesthetics Weisse. 8. Anthropology Lotze. 9. Systems of Harmonic Composition Fink. 10. Hebrew Grammar Fürst. 11. Demosthenes Westermann. 12. Psychology Heinroth. This was enough for the summer half-year. Except Greek and Latin, the other subjects were entirely new to me, and what I wanted was to get an idea of what I should like to study. It may be interesting to add the other Semesters as far as I have them in my _Collegien-Buch_. 13. Aeschyli Persae Hermann. 14. On Criticism The same. 15. German Grammar Haupt. 16. Walther von der Vogelweide The same. 17. Tacitus, Agricola, and De Oratoribus The same. 18. On Hegel Weisse. 19. Disputatorium (Latin) Nobbe. 20. Modern History Wachsmuth. 21. Sanskrit Grammar Brockhaus. 22. Latin Society Haupt. Then follows the summer term of 1842. 23. Pindar Hermann. 24. Nibelungen Haupt. 25. Nala Brockhaus. 26. History of Oriental Literature The same. 27. Arabic Grammar Fleischer. 28. Latin Society Haupt. 29. Plauti Trinumus Becker. Winter term, 1842.