Word: extinguishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...applause. The students at lectures are quiet and attentive, and the late comer or the uneasy auditor is hissed. The benches are scratched and carved as academic benches are, the world over. In the halls of the Berlin University smoking is forbidden, but at Leipzig smokers sometimes forget to extinguish their cigars before reaching the lecture room, and light them before leaving. German students have everywhere the same general appearance, and like the German youth as a whole are rarely as well dressed as English or Americans, even where the clothes are good. The unbecoming flat caps with their varying...