Word: burschenschaften
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...August University of Göttingen, Germany, students sat around a table one night last week drinking beer. They were dressed in their Sunday best; but each also sported a brightly colored cap, and each wore across his chest a brightly colored ribbon. These were the regalia of the Burschenschaften-the ancient dueling corporations that were banned after the war. For the first time in six years, Göttingen's corporations were holding their semester convention right out in the open...
...experience with German students and French students is that they gather together in knipes or corps or burschenschaften with a common table for the gang. English university students, of course, take their meals together in college halls, and that is conidered one of the great privileges. Harvard spirit is nothing if it is not a common spirit, a unified spirit and a spirit of friendship with a group of other men, such as educated men with intellectual interests will form and will enjoy all the rest of their lives...
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