In the vast Leipzig Theatre, students excitedly discussed the upcoming performance in the private boxes.
At this time, the audience had not yet arrived, so there were no guests complaining to the staff about the boisterous university students.
For a group of young men at the most active stage of their lives, living long-term in a small, academically intense town like Gottingen really stifled their nature.
Rising early at five every morning to study, with both the morning and afternoon packed with courses, and even being called to professors' homes for additional lessons in the evenings.
Though such an educational approach produced numerous renowned scholars and high-ranking officials from the University of Gottingen, many years later, when the students returned there, they all expressed gratitude for their alma mater's strict demands on them back then.
However, for a group of teenagers and early twenty-somethings, these arguments were too profound and too indifferent.
