rooms or find a quiet family pension on some little street of the quarter and attend, for some time at least, the lectures and recitations of the schools. Then lie will learn a little of how French students live and will cary away some valuable experiences of the Latin Quarter. French students as a rule rise early and a cup of coffee, or rather chicory, with a couple of rolls, or some bread, make up the premier dejeuner, or breakfast, of the average Parisian and suffice for his needs until noon. Classes generally begin at eight, though sometimes at seven, and the students are all supposed to be in their places, ready and waiting for the professor, as soon as the hour has struck. A dignified personage then enters bearing a tray with a carafe of water, a glass, and some lumps of sugar. He is the janitor with the eau sucre without which a French professor would probably feel lost. The professor himself bustles in_ soon afterwards and delivers his carefully prepared lecture. Many of the courses at the University of Paris are public ones and can be freely attended, others are only open to students studying for a degree or such as are specially quali fied to attend. In the public courses one often sees curious figures who have wandered in, attracted by the crowd enter ing or by idle curiosity. It is no unusual occurrence for one or more of the auditors to go to sleep and cases have been known when the snores from some sleeper so disturbed the quiet of the lecture that the janitor had to escort the offender from the room, amid the smiles of the onlookers. In winter time the warmth and shelter of the university some times attract stray wanderers from the streets who enjoy a quiet snooze while the professor lectures. The work for the morning is over at twelve o'clock and there is a tremendous rush for the various cafes and restaurants of the Quartier. Everyone is hungry and wants dejeuner as quickly as pos sible. This is the first solid meal of the day in France and is fairly substantial, though not to be compared in this re-
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