![]() ![]() Bring him up! (_Exit Habebald._) ZUNGENSCHLAG. At your service, Herr Rector! SONNENSTICH. We see ourselves under the necessity of judging the guilt-laden that we may not be judged guilty ourselves.-Habebald! HABEBALD. An indulgent treatment, which would allow our guilty pupil to be vindicated, would not in any conceivable way imaginable vindicate the present imperiled existence of our institute. It grieves us deeply, gentlemen, that we are not in a position to consider the other qualifications of our guilt-laden pupil as mitigating circumstances. It is our duty, as the guardians and protectors of our institute, to protect our institute from this staggering blow. have been closed by the National Board of Education. Of the various grammar schools visited by the epidemic of self-murder, those in which the devastation of self-murder has reached 25 per cent. Leave that window shut likewise! I, for my part, am of the opinion that the air here leaves nothing to be desired!-Has any gentleman anything further to remark?-Let us suppose that we omitted to move the expulsion of our guilty pupil before the National Board of Education, then the National Board of Education would hold us responsible for the misfortune which has overwhelmed us. (_He counts._) One, two, three-one, two, three-Habebald! HABEBALD. I request those who are in favor of having the only window which can enter into this discussion opened to rise from their seats. Leave the other window shut!-I find it necessary, gentlemen, to put this matter to a vote. Without wishing to increase the controversy, I should like to recall the important fact that the other window has been walled up since vacation. Open the other window!-Has any other gentleman anything to remark? HUNGERGURT. I can rid myself of the conception no longer that it is time at last to open a window here. We cannot ignore the charge-and this, gentlemen, is possibly the weightiest of all-on any pretext concerning a ruined career, because it is our duty to protect ourselves from an epidemic of suicide similar to that which has broken out recently in various grammar schools, and which until to-day has mocked all attempts of the teachers to shackle it by any means known to advanced education -Has any gentleman something further to remark? KNÜPPELDICK. Has any gentleman something further to remark?-Gentlemen! We cannot help moving the expulsion of our guilty pupil before the National Board of Education there are the strongest reasons why we cannot: We cannot, because we must expiate the misfortune which has fallen upon us already we cannot, because of our need to protect ourselves from similar blows in the future we cannot, because we must chastise our guilty pupil for the demoralizing influence he exerted upon his classmates we cannot, above all, because we must hinder him from exerting the same influence upon his remaining classmates. ![]()
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