Professor Andrade took his Ph. D., summa cum laude with highest distinction, the diploma being in Latin in those days at Heidelberg at the end of 1911. Life in a German city, celebrated for and dominated by its University, was a remarkable experience, the complete liberty of the student contrasting with the strict college control at Oxford and Cambridge. In the following article the writer describes his life at Heidelberg as a research student, with friends who afterwards became famous.