. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. is and remains what ithas become in four hundred years, the bulwark ofSwabian Protestantism and the Humanities ... alasting monument to a great ruler, the noblest jewelof the land. In 1669, in the renovated dining-hall ofthe Stift, the inscription was carved in stone: Clau-strum hoc cum patria statque caditque sua. In 1793,when the tablet was removed, it crumbled to , in the future, much that is old or antiquated may,and must fall away. The new era imper
. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. is and remains what ithas become in four hundred years, the bulwark ofSwabian Protestantism and the Humanities ... alasting monument to a great ruler, the noblest jewelof the land. In 1669, in the renovated dining-hall ofthe Stift, the inscription was carved in stone: Clau-strum hoc cum patria statque caditque sua. In 1793,when the tablet was removed, it crumbled to , in the future, much that is old or antiquated may,and must fall away. The new era imperatively demandsits right. But in the heart of the Stift the proud mottowill hold its own: This cloister stands and falls withthe Fatherland! * * No history of the Stift has ever been written, though materialexists in masses, from official documents down to the annals keptin many of the rooms. What we have given here is largely a veryfree translation of portions of an article on the Tuebingen Stift,that appeared in the Daheim for September 24, 1910, from the penof Pastor Karl Gussmann, cousin and namesake of a classmateof A. I . S M THE KOENIGSGESELLSCHAFT 33 Any sketch of the Tuebingen Stift and of Adolphslife there would be incomplete without some referenceto the Koenigsgesellschaft, the association of Stiftlerin which he always took a deep interest, and which heldhim in high honor to the end of his life. The Societyissued for its 75th anniversary (1913) a Stammbuchdes Koenigs, upon which our account is based. Of theearlier fraternities in Tuebingen we need say only afew words. They were formed and fell apart, havingno fixed principles. The nominal aim of these associa-tions, the awakening of a sense for morality, intellec-tuality and patriotism among the students, commendedthem to the Stiftler. The running out of patriotisminto radicalism, as well as other disorders, repelled June, 1833, the arrest of 38 members suspected ofrevolutionary intrigues broke up the mos
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