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 54 8 Readings in European History Law provid- ing for a supervision of the univer- sity profes- sors and students. Students' societies. regular courses, and, without directly interfering in scien- tific matters or in the methods of teaching, to give a salu- tary direction to the instruction, having in view the future attitude of the students. Lastly, he shall devote unceasing attention to everything that may promote morality, good order, and outward propriety among the students. . . . 2. The confederated governments mutually pledge them- selves to remove from the universities or other public edu- cational institutions all teachers who, by obvious deviation from their duty, or by exceeding the limits of their func- tions, or by the abuse of their legitimate influence over the youthful minds, or by propagating harmful doctrines hostile to public order or- subversive of existing governmental in- stitutions, shall have unmistakably proved their unfitness for the important office intrusted to them. . . . No teacher who shall have been removed in this manner shall be again appointed to a position in any public institu- tion of learning in another state of the union. 3. Those laws which have for a long period been directed against secret and unauthorized societies in the universities shall be strictly enforced. These laws apply especially to that association established some years since under the name Universal Students' Union (AUgemeine Burschenschafi), since the very conception of the society implies the utterly unallowable plan of permanent fellowship and constant communication between the various universities. The duty of especial watchfulness in this matter should be impressed upon the special agents of the government. The governments mutually agree that such persons as shall hereafter be shown to have remained in secret or un- authorized associations, or shall have entered such associa- tions, shall not be admitted to any public office. 4. No student who shall be expelled from a university by a decision of the university senate which was ratified or prompted by the agent of the government, or who shall have left the institution in order to escape expulsion, shall be received in any other university. . ..