Chapter XV
Drinking Customs of Student-life, ancient and modern.—The Author’s opinions on festive drinking—Song of Old Noah—Master Schluck’s persiflage on the Burschen-Comment, or Student Code of Drinking Laws—Notice of some of the chief of the different classes of Student Songs—“The Maiden Song” as formerly sung—account of it in Zacchariæ’s Renommist—Drinking Customs of a past age in the Universities—anecdotes of these—Phrases collected by Lichtenberg descriptive of a Drunkard—the General Beer-Code of Heidelberg