Part 58

to wait in ambush for somebody, +einen in einem Hinterhalte auf´lauern+.

the adverb +dann+ must be placed after the object. To beat a person soundly with a stick, +einen tüchtig durch´prügeln+.

Say ‘with empty chest (+Kasten+, m.)’, which place immediately after the object.

+und rief ihm beim Abschied noch zu.+

‘fault’, here = sin.

Supply here the adverb +schon+.

Section 78.

STAND UP FOR WHATEVER IS TRUE, MANLY, AND LOVELY.

In no place in the world has individual character more weight than at a public school. Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time when you may have more influence for good or evil in the society you live in than you ever can have again. Quit yourselves like men, then; speak out and stand up for whatever is true, manly, and lovely. Never (S. 68, N. 2) try to be popular, but only do your duty, and help others to do theirs; and when you leave the school (S. 27, N. 8), the tone of feeling in it will be higher than you found it, and so you will do good to generations of your countrymen yet unborn. For boys follow one another in herds like sheep, for good or evil; they hate thinking, and have rarely any settled principles.

Use the 2nd pers. pl.; whatever = all that; see S. 3, N. 7.

+schön.+

In no place = Nowhere.

more weight = greater influence.

Remember this = Think (2nd pers. pl.) of it; see S. 4, N. 5, B.

+bitten.+

+=Der=+ (m. sing.), +=die=+ (f. sing.), and +=die=+ (pl.) must be used =as relative pronouns= in reference to a personal pronoun of the first or second person of either number, and also in reference to the personal pronoun of the third person plural (+Sie+) used instead of the second person plural. For the sake of emphasis the personal pronoun is frequently repeated after the relative pronoun, and the verb must then agree with the personal pronoun, as the following examples will show.

+Verschmähst du ~mich~, ~die ich~ deine Freundin bin?+

Dost thou disdain me, who am your friend?

+~Ich~, ~der ich~ dich von deinen Feinden befreite.+

I, who delivered thee from thy enemies.

Construe the clauses ‘who — forms’ accordingly; to get into the upper forms, +in die obern Klassen versetzt werden+.

Say ‘The time has come’; when, +wo+.

may have = exercise (+aus´üben+) likely.

Say ‘more good or evil influence upon (+auf+) the company surrounding you (+Eure Umgebung+)’.

have = exercise.

Say ‘Be therefore manly’.

‘to speak out’, here +gerade und frei heraus´sprechen+; ‘to be popular’, here +sich beliebt machen+.

When the following verbs are used in connection with another verb governed by them, that verb stands in =the Infinitive without the preposition +zu+= (Comp. S. 34, N. 10):