The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-02

In Germany No Man II Real student
Cntii lie HAS Fought

until ne Has Fought
"During the time between the en-.
animation and characterization In =
German university" said Prof.
Schliencn, "the young student Is called
a mule, because he Is neither an ass
nor u horse, but something between
both. Int when he IL smart enough 20
enter one OF the students Socicties, or
verbindungen, he Is called n fox---you
would call Il freshman-bccomes later
on burned fox, which indicates that
he has been In the FIRE; then fellow,
and gradually rises to the different
honors in his corps, or club, rs fog
major who educates the young fresh-
man in drinking; fencing major, who
drills the foxes in tho use of the rapier
and sword; and senior, or mosshead,
after he has been In the corps for halfa
century.
Each fox chooses a fellow or a moss
head, to whom he attaches himself
with body and soul. for whom ne goes
on errands, whose boots he blacks,
whose debts he pays, whose correspond
ence he writes. for whom he learns
and puts down the lectures; for whom,
in short, he does everything short OF
stealing and numbering. The fellow,
in his turn, protects his fox, or. rs he In
called, his body fox, In quarrels of all
sorts. accepts ducls for him. makes his
cause his own whenever the fox Is too
inexperienced to stand his own ground,
and Is like an elder brother 20 him.
Friendships like that are to last life
time. ft4s
AT my times the clubs, or verbin-
dungeon, were all the rage. A student
who did not belong To one of them was
much despised
Those verbindungen were divided
into two different classes, such whose
members accepted u duel when offered.
and such who did not The first class
were called honorable verbindungen.
or honorable clubs the second, 'blasen,'
or bubbles and their members cam
els The honorable clubs are again
divided into corps and landsmann-
schaften, the names of which were
derived from the names of old German
countries, for instance Suevia, Fran
coma, SaNonia, Borassia and 80 forth.
The bubbles are divided into 'burschen-
schaften,' fellowships' and simple
vcreins or clubs, which may be very
nice, but don't amount to very much in
the eyes of an honorable student A
student who gives you his left cheek
when you have slapped him on the right
one may make n good preacher In after
life; as student he hardly deserves
any recognition, and you have right
10 slap him right and left
THE finest verbindungen are the
corps. The princes of our royal house
have all been corps students In Rome
md Berlin. There are corps which re-
'eive rs members only the highest aris-
,ocracy, princes, counts, barons, etc.
Ny corps, Franconia, was corps more
IN account of its principles of students
honor than on account of the nobility
# its members, Although we were
most OF us sons OF high state officials,
rmy officers, etc, there were, never
heless, some of the most noble and
aliant and highly-esteemed fellows In
he corps-sons of simple citizens,
'akers, Shocmakers, and so on Bravery
vas the first paragraph in our codes of
Fh''" ~ hu'i Nuo uIlu OccEDLRu
n the slightest pretence. A word, a
)oli, gesture was sometimes su efficient
, open hostilities which ended in duel.
Those ducls are fought with three
iffercnt Irresponsible rapier, a straight
word which intlicts only slight wounds.
lostly in the face and on the head,
'hich are not protected; then the
lber regular cavalry sword, with
road blade, very dangerous weapon,
hich, under circumstances, causes n
eadly result, and the pistol.
pistol ducls are very scarce, and oc-
Ir seldom between students, but only
ctween army officers and students, but
Iostly on account of offenses given
hring the one years military service.
had six rapier ducls and one with the
Der. Being very good swordsman,
escaped with few light scars on my
lad, over which the moss has grown
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