Students are forbidden to marry for the whole time of their residence at the university: so runs paragraph 17 of the section "Rules for Students of the University During the Course of Study" in the "Rules for Students and Non-Matriculated Auditors…
If one takes this fact into account, the plot twists of every nineteenth-century novel in which a student arrives in the country and makes the acquaintance of a charming young lady, the landowner's daughter, acquire a new ring. Yes, yes: after all the lyrical evenings, the walks, the ardent speeches and glances, the young man will hardly marry her, and the reason is not that he is such a rake, but that what is at stake, quite literally, is his future, his profession and his career.
