Now and then you see a man's teeth laid bare almost to the ear, so that for the rest of the duel he appears to be grinning at one half of the spectators, his other side, remaining serious; and sometimes a man's nose gets slit, which gives to him as he fights a singularly supercilious air.
As the object of each student is to go away from the University bearing as many scars as possible, I doubt if any particular pains are taken to guard, even to the small extent such method of fighting can allow.

The real victor is he who comes out with the greatest number of wounds; he who then, stitched and patched almost to unrecognition as a human being, can promenade for the next month, the envy of the German youth, the admiration of the German maiden.

He who obtains only a few unimportant wounds retires sulky and disappointed.
But the actual fighting is only the beginning of the fun.

The second act of the spectacle takes place in the dressing-room.

The doctors are generally mere medical students--young fellows who, having taken their degree, are anxious for practice.