Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-In reading in Tuesday's HERALD-CRIMSON the article entitled "Student Duels in Germany," I noticed some slight mistakes. In the first place a German university knows no distinction of classes, since you go to the university and listen to the lectures, till you think you are ready for an examination; and these duels are fought not by classes, but by corps which are clubs formed for the pursuit of dueling. A student wishing to join a corps gives in his name to some member of it; if he be elected he becomes a Fuchs so-called...
...dueling room is generally over an inn, or beer-house on the outskirts of the town, and at the appointed day is crowded with the different classmen. The classes are distinguished by their colors, each class having red, blue or green caps according to their rank. The different classes never mingle with one another, and it is considered an insult if a red-capped student addresses a blue cap. Each color has its corner in the dueling room, and here the students smoke and drink until the combatants appear. The duelists are dressed and armed in an adjoining room...
...pair of students in Columbia College have had a duel. Thank the stars and the faculty, Harvard students have never got so low as that. - [Transcript...
...twelve students who died at Leipsic during the last session of the university, one was killed in a duel and six committed suicide...
...Andrieux, late French ambassador to Spain, and M. Laurent, editor of the newspaper Paris, fought a duel Friday morning with swords, in which the latter was slightly wounded...