A clean-cut wound that gapes wide is most desired by all parties.

On purpose it is sewn up clumsily, with the hope that by this means the scar will last a lifetime.

Such a wound, judiciously mauled and interfered with during the week afterwards, can generally be reckoned on to secure its fortunate possessor a wife with a dowry of five figures at the least.
These are the general bi-weekly Mensurs, of which the average student fights some dozen a year.

There are others to which visitors are not admitted.

When a student is considered to have disgraced himself by some slight involuntary movement of the head or body while fighting, then he can only regain his position by standing up to the best swordsman in his Korps.