Student Customs in Germany.

The executive committee of the Berlin students posted a notice on the bulletin board during the past semester requesting the discontinuance of the habit of scraping and stamping the feet on the arrival and departure of the professor, and advised instead the practice in vogue elsewhere of rising and standing during the entrance and exit of a favorite instructor. Student custom in Germany varies somewhat in this respect. The professor usually comes in after his audience is assembled and generally leaves before the others withdraw. In many places his coming and going receive no attention unless he be advanced in age, or particularly esteemed. Signs of respect are then shown either by rising and bowing or by the customary marks of applause. The students at lectures are quiet and attentive, and the late comer or the uneasy auditor is hissed. The benches are scratched and carved as academic benches are, the world over. In the halls of the Berlin University smoking is forbidden, but at Leipzig smokers sometimes forget to extinguish their cigars before reaching the lecture room, and light them before leaving. German students have everywhere the same general appearance, and like the German youth as a whole are rarely as well dressed as English or Americans, even where the clothes are good. The unbecoming flat caps with their varying colors serve to distinguish the society men, although a similar baoge is also conimonm the lower schools. -[Era.