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AT THE QUEDLINBURG GYMNASIUM.
The atmosphere of Quedlinburg was far different from that of the Mark factory town of Kottbus.

How fresh, how healthful, how stimulating to industry and out-door exercise it was! Everything in the senior class was just as it should be.
In Kottbus the pupils addressed each other formally.

There were at the utmost, I think, not more than half a dozen with whom I was on terms of intimacy.

In Quedlinburg a beautiful relation of comradeship united all the members of the school.