The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-15

after lis dnns freshman examination Ihe
prsson In which Bismarck passed his tea
DAYS has been pulled down. The ooor IN
which he CARED bis name has been pre-
served. as al tourists who have visited Got
sineen may know.
Or. Melier narrates one highly significant
incident Of Bismsrekis last daEs in Got
tSngen. Bismarck vas then senior OK
tie Sighting corps "HannOxssa,F aud
directed for the most part its public policy
The "LHnebgFRia. also q dueliing corps,
bad Offended against the students code Of
honor. and convention Of al the other
dneiling corps met % condemn fts mem
beTs 10 pay ths extreme penalty prescribed
BY student iaw-thAt Is, 20 lose the priv
Iege OF formally insulting other students,
Of being fnsulted, ard OF clearing their
honor on the mensur. The technical ex-
pge9ion for the depIoFabie condition OF 3
daellinE corps thus senssneed Is Saflsfae-
tionsEaiahigkeit Inability 20 give salts
factionl The Luneburgia tried 10 avert
the impending disgrace by apologlzing
amply for their ofiense. IL did not help
them. Bismarck stood alone IN the con-
veution for their reinstatement He brow
bear, argued, bEllied and pleaded in vain.
The LunebnTgiA w8s declared satisfaction
sunfahig. as well as every corps which re-
fused 10 recognize this resolution of the
convention. In this last provision the con-
yention threw down the gauntlet 10 every
faiF-uiinded corps student In the univer-
sity. Bismarck alone picked it up and
thereby rendered his corps, too, satisfac-
sionsunfahig-an act requiring q vast
amount OF moral courage, only conceivable
By those acquainted with the iron tyranny
Of university customs.
Most Of the other official records OF Bis
marckis student days are tame and insig-
nilcsnt The Gottingen professors knew
how 10 shut an eye, as the Germans say,
and sometimes two eyes. Otherwise DIR.
Meier's Bismarckiana' would have been
IA more varied and voIumiRous.
In latter 70 DR.. Meier concerning the
university records in question, the iron
chancellor recently said: You have given
me great pleasure By sending me the OIL
cial records OF my youth. While reading
them returned with a certain sadness 10
the days when | was young / also learn
from them with pleasure that the univer-
sity judges we're much more coRsiderate TO
me than |. according 70 my recollection.
deserved
dAtet FeddltiB tue Ordinary cuFOHlCft Vi
Bismarck's wiid university life person
usually asks: ibid this beer-drinking.
pspe-smoking. quarrelsome young scape-
grace ever have any conception of the
great mission bsfore hinl?n That is some
thing that nobody except Bismarck him
self knows. and be has never told. Ger
tainiy his many Boswelis. with all their
subservient pans, have here failed to
prove much in his favor That Bismarck
was already dreaming Of the days when
Germany should be one. however. Is proven
by the fact that in 1888 he bet Amory
Coffin, an American student at Gottin-
gen. twenty five bottles of champagne. the
loser 10 cross the sea TO pay them, that
Germany would be united within twenty
yearg I'm fs53,n said Bismarck to his
biographer. Busch. II thought of the bet
and intended TO go across the sea for it,
bat upon inquiry found my man was
dead He had just the sort OF name that
promised no length OF iife-Coffin.