Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Halbert, '85, Longfellow's "Bridge; " Mr. Noble, '85, Tennyson's "Ulysses;" Mr. Goodale, '85, "Lee's Miserables;" Mr. Bailey, '85, Hamlet to the Players; Mr. Hanson, '85, Selection from Webster; Mr. Greenman, '85, Selections from Macbeth; Mr. Bowen, '85, Ruskin to the Cadets at Woolwich; Mr. Winter, "The Spanish Duel." Most of the speakers howed careful preparation. Mr. Winter, who spoke last, was treated to an encore by the enthusiastic audience. His response, the "Widow Malone," was one of the cleverest things we have heard. The meeting on the whole was a decided success. The audience was an appreciative...
...German student and congratulating yourself on your witty reply. In time you return to your lodgings, when the first thing that meets your eyes is a challenge lying on your table. You learn subsequently that the words exchanged between the German and yourself are the regular preliminaries of a duel...
Hard drinking and brilliant swordplay are the chief requisites for glory at the universities. A German student who does not duel (they all drink) is socially ostracised ; while he who excels in both fencing and drinking becomes at once the idol of his fellow students and the secret admiration of the town maidens. So strong is the passion for fame that the veriest trifles are construed into portentous insults and men have been known to tear open wounds partially healed, that scars might be formed as souvenirs of past encounters...
...Student duels are rather mild performances in most instances. The German method of fencing has very little of the grace and science of the French style, requiring only great strength and flexibility of the wrist. The sword used, spear they call it, is about three feet long, sharpened eight inches on one side, and sixteen inches on the other, with a blunt end. This is grasped in the right hand so that the arm crosses the face diagonally. The hand is protected by a basket hilt of iron, the arm and chest by impenetrable coverings. The left hand is held...
Longfellow's class in college was one of the most remarkable that ever graduated at Bowdoin. There were, among them, Nathaniel Hawthorne (who spelled his name Hathorne in college); Franklin Pierce, afterward President of the United States; Jonathan Cilley, who was shot, while a member Congress, in a duel, by Mr. Graves of Kentucky; George B. Cheever, a distinguished clergyman and author; Stephen Longfellow the eldest brother of the poet, rapidly rising to distinction at the bar, when his earthly career was cut short by death; John S. C. Abbott, a somewhat famous writer; James W. Bradbury, an able lawyer...