Burschenschaft
Americannoun
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Burschenschaften
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of Burschenschaft
literally: youth association
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But the reasons which the government assigned for the proscription of the Burschenschaft were totally different.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
In conclusion, we must employ a few sentences on the early Burschenschaft and the modern fragments of its wreck.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
I joined a student club which formed part of the Burschenschaft, but which in order to escape prosecution adopted the title of Gemeinschaft.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
In his history we behold the fac-simile of the history of the whole Burschenschaft to which he belonged.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
At this time sprang up the so-called Deutsche Burschenschaft, organizations of young men, whose object was to promote the cause of German union.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The Burschenschaften societies of students had their origin in political opposition to this separation of the students into communities from the various states.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
The Burschenschaften are now purely social and non-political societies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
Raumer, in his "History of German Universities," testifies that the Burschenschaften abolished there the last vestige of that system of hazing practised on new-comers, which seems to be an indigenous weed of the college soil.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
The originators of the Burschenschaften movement, for example, were eleven students at Jena.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
The societies of the Burschenschaften are still considered to have a political complexion and the corps proper have no dealings with them.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
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