They show that the duel has a singular fascination about it somewhere, for these free men, so far from resting upon the privilege of the badge, are always volunteering.

A corps student told me it was of record that Prince Bismarck fought thirty-two of these duels in a single summer term when he was in college.

So he fought twenty-nine after his badge had given him the right to retire from the field.
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FROM MY DIARY .-- Dined in a hotel a few miles up the Neckar, in a room whose walls were hung all over with framed portrait-groups of the Five Corps; some were recent, but many antedated photography, and were pictured in lithography--the dates ranged back to forty or fifty years ago.

Nearly every individual wore the ribbon across his breast.