This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...ought to be drawn--from the wood. Delicious lager with not one headache in a barrel of it Good honest beer that exhilarated without intoxicating. In drinking it one could feel that it was doing the body good. Nothing but beer was ever drunk at a students' carouse--neither wine nor brandy nor anything really intoxicating. And I must say here that the German lager is not as alcoholic as many English temperance drinks. The lager that the students drink is a simple, healthful, delicious beverage that it would be good if it were possible to obtain here in England. Next to me sat a student with a heavily scarred face. He was the Fox-major--the chief of the younger set of students who were called foxes. These foxes were the junior students, and they sat at the foot of the table. The etiquette regulating their conduct was calculated to make them toe the line. They could only address the president through the Foxmajor, who was at once their ruler and their tutor. He was responsible for any solecism that they might commit at the feast. I may say here that every student--during the Kneipe--was only allowed to address another by his Kneipe name--the name which had been given him to be used at the beer-feast and at the beer-feast alone. Any breach of etiquette, or the addressing of a student out of his Kneipe name, was redressed by recourse to the beer-duel. Glasses were filled up, and at a word the beer-duellists--who were standing--gulped down their glasses. And the student who could first pronounce a word, agreed on beforehand, after gulping down his beer was accounted the victor. The Burschen (fellows) sat toward the head of the table near to the president. And I may say here that the Fox-major was the vice-president. The Fox-major was a hard-looking, black-haired s...