The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-09-08
HE MUST HAVE SCARS.
In Germany No Man Is Real Student
Until He Has Fought.

During the time between the ex-
animation and immatricuation in
German university" said Prof.
Schlienen, "the young student is called
mule. because he is neither an ass
nor a horse, but something between
both. But when he is smart enough
to enter one of the students societies,
or CerbiRdungeH, he is called a fox
you would call it freshman becomes
later on burned fox, which indicates
that he has been in the fire; then fell
low, and gradually rises to the diff
ferent honors in his corps, or club,
as fox ma jor, who educates the young
freshman in drinking; fencing major,
who drills the foxes in the use of the
rapier and sword; and senior, or moss
head, after he has been in the corps for
half a century.
Each fox chooses a fellow or moss
head, to whom he attaches himself
with body and soul, for whom he goes
on errands, whose boots he blacks,
whose debts he pays, whose correspon-
deRce 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, as he
is called, his body fox. in quarrels of
all sorts, accepts duels for him, makes
his cause his own whenever the fox is
too inexperienced to stand his own
ground, and is like an elder brother to
him. Friendships like that are to last
lifetime.
"Those Cerbindungen were divided
into two different classes, such whose
members accepted duel when of.
fered, and such who did not. The
first class were called honorable ver-
bindungen,' or honorable clubs;' the
second, 'blasen,' or bubbles and
their members 'camels' The honor
able clubs are again divided into corps
and landsmannschaften, the names Of
which were derived from the names of
old German countries, for instance,
Suevia, Francania, Saxonia, Borassia,
and SO forth. The bubbles are divid-
ed int 'bursehensehaftsd,' fellow
ships, and simple versins 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 good preacher in after life; as
student he hardly deserves any re-
cognitiOn, and you have a right to slap
him right and left.
The finest verbindungen are the
corps. The Princess of our royal
house have all been corps students in
Rome and Berlin. There are corps
which receive as members only the
highest aristocracy, Princes, Counts,
Barons, &c. My corps, Franconia, was
corps more on account of its princi-
pies of students honor than on account
of the nobility of its members.
Although we were most of us sons of
high State officials, army officers, &C.,
there were, nevertheless, some of the
most noble and valiant and highly
esteemed fellows in the corps-sons of
simple citizens, bakers, shoemakers,
and so on. Bravery was the first para
graph in our codes of honor. A duel
was offered and accepted on the slight
est pretence. A word, a look, ges-
ture was sometimes sufficient to open
hostihtieS which ended in a duel
Those duels are fought with three
different weapons = the rapier,
sword which inficts only
slight wounds, mostly in the face and
on the head, which are not protected;
then the sabre, a regular cavalry sword,
with a broad blade, very dangerous
weapon, which, under circumstances,
causes deadly result and the pistol.
pistol duels are very scarce, and
occur seldom between students, but
only between army officers and
students. but mostly on account of
offences given during the one years
service. | had six rapier duels
and one with sabre Being very
COED swordsman, l escaped with few
light scars on my head, over which the
moss has grown since. e."-Iadidndpolss
NeaOs.