The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
STUDENT BEER-DRlNkERS.
Immense Quantities Consumed at the
German Universities.

Immense Quantities Consumed at tho
German Universities.
Students in Iowa colleges generally
lead quiet as we'll as sober life. It's
far different in European universities
where drinking and dueling are as pop
ular as foot ball at Harvard or Yale.
Mr.. John $. Nollen, a graduate of the
State University and one of the bright
est and most promising young men of
Iowa, who is now enrolled as student
at Zurich, in recent letter gives an in
teresting account of drinking bout
among the students of that school. The
letter is written to his father, Mr. John
Nollen. of Pella. In it he says:
Last Saturday the 'Zo1nga' the students
society to which some Of the fellows who STAY
here belong, had it's grand annual drinking
bout, to which representatives from all the
lodges chapters in Switzerland, former
members. etc, came to take part. There were
about two hundred present and on Saturday
night they drank twelve hunlred quarts Of
beer, beside wind and sundries! OF course q
good share of the two hundred were dead drunk
That seems to be the fun of it. On Sunday they
had procession through the streets then pro-
ceeded by special boat to Horgen, where they
once more loaded up. Next day there was still
more drinking and some of the fellows had to
be carried of in cabs. 1t was q disgusting spec
tacle.'
After giving an account of the great
university drinking bout Mr.. Nollen
says:
When went to Cham few days ago, the
noted DR.. Muese was on the train, also bound
for Chan. In cur conversation We happened
to touch upon the alcohol question. 1 asked
him how long he thought it would be before
never. EurOpe.is drifting steadily IN the oppo-
site direction.~ A co.olism is getting worse
every year. H. said that the nviction had
been forced upon him from long and wide ex
perience that Europe was going to utter AMI
inevitable ruin through alcohol. T T..
worst g, oonridden town i'll e West is a ten.-
perance paradis compared wi tn q, cohnl-soalze
Europe. Here alcohol l. not only king but
gnt who receives tia abb ct alteration of the
/ at!ves and there - hatll a whisper .a,nst
his abso' ute power, hardly revolt against the
fearful sarritic - 4 ,,naa Is for ais altar
This view of Europe is rather a gloomy
one, but it is p 'obably not over-esti-
mated. The disgrace of drinking bout
in which each stud mt drinks six quart )
of beer besides twin and sundries': and
all in the course of one evening ought
to be text enough for good prohibi-
ton sermon. Nowhere but in Europe
would it be tolerated. American stu
dents are happily exceptions to the pre-
vailing degradation of the universities
of Europe. Americans do not take
kindly to the idea of wholly brutalizing
human beings. If they drink it is gen
orally in moderation, or if they get
drunk it is the result of loss of self
control rather than the outcome of a
deliberate determination to drink ones
self into The likeness of beast. What
is true of American students in the
universities is true of Americans study
ing art or music in Europe. A leading
musical instructor recently stated that
of all the American pupils under his
care for the past quarter of century
he had not known single one to go
astray or fail to make the most of the
advantages within his reach. Amer
leans have still the virtues of a new
people, and may they long retain them.
Iowa State Register.