He plays football a little, bicycles still less; plays French billiards in stuffy cafes more.

But generally speaking he, or the majority of him, lays out his time bummeling, beer drinking, and fighting.

If he be the son of a wealthy father he joins a Korps--to belong to a crack Korps costs about four hundred pounds a year.

If he be a middle-class young man, he enrols himself in a Burschenschaft, or a Landsmannschaft, which is a little cheaper.

These companies are again broken up into smaller circles, in which attempt is made to keep to nationality.