. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. hoolmaster, I was very bashful, reserved andtimid. When, in the upper class of our Latin school inEsslingen, I was many a time called upon to read themorning prayer, my voice often failed, simply fromexcitement and lack of breath. (Erinnerungen.) Fromthat time forth his studies tended more and more to thepoint at which he aimed, and the terrible Landexamen,i. e., the State examination for entrance into the theo-logical seminaries sustained by the government, bega
. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. hoolmaster, I was very bashful, reserved andtimid. When, in the upper class of our Latin school inEsslingen, I was many a time called upon to read themorning prayer, my voice often failed, simply fromexcitement and lack of breath. (Erinnerungen.) Fromthat time forth his studies tended more and more to thepoint at which he aimed, and the terrible Landexamen,i. e., the State examination for entrance into the theo-logical seminaries sustained by the government, beganto loom up. But before that, on the first Sunday in May, 1853,came confirmation, for which Adolph had been mostcarefully prepared by his pastor Herr StadtpfarrerSchumann, who was also a warm friend of the confirmation service was preceded by an examina-tion in the seventy-three questions and answers of theConfirmation Book. As everyone knew what his ques-tion would be this was less formidable than it the examination each child received the Pastorsblessing and a text for his life-motto, just as our cus-. <^!)fret((i£}t€n ^SLrcJft xAerc/n CONFIRMATION AND THE LANDEXAMEN 17 torn is in America. The poorer boys were generallydressed for this occasion in coats which appeared againat their wedding and burial. The fit at fourteen canbe imagined. The realities of confirmation which had seemed sofar away only a little while ago, made the months andweeks and days before the Landexamen fly like the only thing that counted now was to lay aside everyimpediment, and fix the mind on the approaching strug-gle. And if the boy were ever inclined to wander rightor left from the narrow path prescribed for him, hewas at once driven back to it by the warning of parentsand teachers, or the mockery of his young companions:So much learned trash (Wissenschaftswust), was onlynecessary for candidates for the Landexamen! Theyspoke of us as already sentenced. * On the
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