Note 26-16 — Eine Studentengeschichte

Heidelberg, das Wetterloch! (bad weather-quarters). In a similar manner, Joseph Victor Scheffel, the life-long admirer and bard of Heidelberg, complains of the wet character of the old university-town on the Neckar, in the closing line of the Preface to his "Gaudeamus," a collection of merry college-songs, where he says: „Der genius loci Heidelbergs ist feucht,“—now a familiar quotation.