Burschenschaft
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Origin of Burschenschaft
literally: youth association
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Yet they have no deep significance like that of the Burschenschaft.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various
Hitherto must the life and movements of the Burschenschaft be styled noble.
From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William
Secret and shrewd spies have penetrated in Germany the secret labors of our three societies, The Tugenbund at Berlin, The Burschenschaft and The Teutonia at Vienna and Leipsic.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
The Burschenschaft, as the student brothers were called, finally formed themselves into a league comprising sixty schools; and held a famous meeting at Wartburg, 1817.
From Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck by Greusel, John Hubert
So far as the Burschenschaft was a union which, on account of its ideal object, claimed prerogatives beyond the other Verbindungs, in so far by that prohibition is its return to the High-school made impossible.
From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William
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 Collier, Price
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 Collier, Price
This spirit spread particularly through the agencies of the student fraternities called "Burschenschaften," and the athletic associations, the "Turners," advocated and fostered by Jahn.
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
There were the Burschenschaften in Germany; the Union, and the "Aide toi et le ciel t'aidera," in France; the Order of the Hammer in Spain; the Carbonari in Italy; and the Hetairai in Greece.
From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir
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