THE HIGHER   EDUCATIONAL  INSTITUTIONS.
consent of the faculty and the authorization of the curator. Finally, for the superintendence of the students a special inspection is instituted consisting of an inspector and his assistants under the authority of the curator and the rector.
From all the persons enumerated are formed in the university collegiate institutions in regard to teaching: i) a council of the rector and all the professors, and 2) meetings of faculties, composed of the dean and professors of the faculty. For the management of economical matters, and to decide questions affecting the students there is a board constituted of the rector, dean and inspector.
Freedom of teaching, though not unlimited, is sufficiently great. Of course the faculty looks to the fulness, consistency and regularity of the teaching and of the scientific exercises of the students, and draws up one or several plans of study; but, within these limits, the delivery of lectures, the methods of exposition of science, the means of making it known to the students—depend wholly upon the teachers. A do-cent may be prohibited from delivering lectures only in case of teaching not worthy of the subject, or having a harmful tendency. Students in choosing their subjects are obliged to take for their guidance one of the plans sanctioned by the faculty; with the permission of the faculty, however, they may depart fiom it; every one is allowed to attend lectures in the other faculties also. Finally, if the subject is taught by several professors, the choice among them is also left to the student him-
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