This to such an extent
that one day, under the second Empire, a minister, drawing out his
watch, could exclaim with satisfaction,
"At this very time, in such a class, all the scholars of the Empire
are studying a certain page in Virgil."
Well -informed, judicious, impartial and even kindly-disposed
foreigners,[57] on seeing this mechanism which everywhere substitutes
for the initiative from below the compression and impetus from above,
are very much surprised. "The law means that the young shall never for
one moment be left to themselves; the children are under their
masters' eyes all day" and all night. Every step outside of the
regulations is a false one and always arrested by the ever-present
authority. And, in cases of infraction, punishments are severe;
"according to the gravity of the case,[58] the pupils will be punished
by confinement from three days to three months in the lyc?e or
college, in some place assigned to that purpose; if fathers, mothers
or guardians object to these measures, the pupil must be sent home and
can no longer enter any other college or lyc?e belonging to the
university, which, as an effect of university monopoly, thereafter
deprives him of instruction, unless his parents are wealthy enough to
employ a professor at home.
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