Word: korporationen
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Fraternity Foolery. Göttingen's students are today sometimes less satisfying than the Wehrmacht veterans. One-third of the men belong to Korporationen (fraternities), and despite vigorous faculty disapproval, they have an irrepressible yen for Germany's most adolescent atavism -dueling. Göttingen is also a notable Arbeitsuniversität (grind school), meaning that its relatively unprosperous students work extra-hard and pile up Teutonic tensions. Yet all is not blades and blood; the duelers are equally enamored of progressive jazz, hikes on picturesque "Stallion Hill," and lipstickless coeds with hair the color of sunlit beer...
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