Now first of all, to drive scholastic folly, I'll bring thee to a jovial set, and jolly. _Goethe's Faust_. The different Chores have adopted their names, exactly like the early landsmanschafts, from the different German nations. Yet are these, as we have already hinted, no longer so scrupulous in the reception of the new members as those were, to which none could belong but the actual natives of that country whose appellation the union bore. If any man would still persuade himself that the ancient practice is yet continued, he must construct in his own head a very peculiar geography. As these unions bear the names of the different nations, so the members of each wore publicly their respective colours, which, since the interdict against them, of course, is no longer the case. These colours were not only displayed on the cap, but also on a broad band which was worn over the breast. The prohibition of the Chore colours was a severe blow to the unions, and the students sought in various ways waggishly to surmount it. Instead, therefore, of one student, as before, wearing the three united colours, as it might be green, white, and black,--each Chore having, for the most part, like its nation, three,--now went three students arm in arm, each of them wearing one of the three colours, so that the whole three colours were combined in three friends. This attempt, however, led its authors no further than into the student-prison. The principal of the regular Chores are-- The Rhenish, whose colours are--blue, red, and white. The Hanseatic, " " white, red, and white. The Westphalian, " " green, white, and black. The Swabian, " " black, yellow, and white. The Nassau, " " blue, white, and orange. The Swiss, " " green, red, and gold. The Sachsen-Borussen, or Prussian, white, green, black and white. The English, in Leipsic only.