Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half century ago, in some of the German universities, it was looked upon as a mortal offense to refuse to drink drink when asked, no matter how often the invitation came. Refusal was promptly followed by a challenge to fight a duel. The story is told of one pugnacious student, who, being something of a duelist, and being well filled with the balm of German student life, jumped upon a long table one night at drinking bout, and walked the whole length of the table, kicking the mugs and pitchers right and left. As a result he had fourteen duels...
Some of our muddle-headed contemporaries who have been publishing accounts of the "Death of a Harvard student wile engaged in a joke," the following facts may be of interest: The man in question was not a Harvard student. He did not accompany the party of students to Worcester, but drove back the empty carriage. He was not intoxicated, but died of apoplexy...
...quite surprising to see what great advantages a student at one of our great universities enjoys in regard to the use of libraries. We are very much inclined to complain of not having the necessary facilities in this direction, but comparison, which teaches so many things, may also teach as to be quite contented with our lot. While staying in Berlin for a few months, I had occasion to get some books out of the Royal Library. Not being a matriculated student, I had tremendous difficulty in getting the necessary permission from one of those demigods - an assistant librarian. When...
...written in bloody letters upon it. This is a true tale of how things are managed in a library which contains more than 500,000 volumes. No order, no catalogue, excepting volume upon volume of written memoranda which in themselves cover many shelves, opens a way for the student to so much wisdom. Nobody seems to know where to look for the books, and the poor library boy doesn't wear the hale and hearty look of our little red-haired friend. Sent out after a book at 12 on Monday, he arrives panting, fagged out, pale and haggard...
This miserable system, or rather this miserable lack of system, prevails in all the German universities in a greater or less degree, according to the size of the libraries. And yet the German student lives and learns and becomes the famous philologist, or the famous scientist, whose works are kept in our American libraries at the disposal of everybody. He knows and cares for nothing better, and it were cruel indeed to tell him how much more favored we Americans are. "Where ignorance is bliss...