A day's excellent sport is provided for him free of charge, during which he is the centre of attraction.
Use blinds one to everything one does not wish to see.

Every third German gentleman you meet in the street still bears, and will bear to his grave, marks of the twenty to a hundred duels he has fought in his student days.

The German children play at the Mensur in the nursery, rehearse it in the gymnasium.

The Germans have come to persuade themselves there is no brutality in it--nothing offensive, nothing degrading.

Their argument is that it schools the German youth to coolness and courage.