The Chores, or Unions.--Their nature, constitution, and
distinguishing colours--each Chore formed of the natives of a
particular State--what is requisite for the formation of a New
Chore--is acknowledged and recorded at the Allgemeine, or General
Social Meeting of the Chores--Constitution of a Chore--its
Officers, Code of Laws--its Beer-court, and Court of Honour--its
Boon-companions, and various ranks of members--its Chore-Convent,
or Board of Administration--the Proscription, or Bann, as
exercised both against Members and offending Tradesmen, or even
the University itself--Classes of Students termed Camels, etc.
etc.
CHAPTER IV.
The Burschenschaft.--The origin of this celebrated Society to be
found in the patriotic desire to free Germany from the domination
of Buonaparte--this feeling at first high and holy--quickened by
the union of Learned and Literary men in the Poet-League of
Göttengen, to advance the Language and Literature of the
Country--the triumphs of Literature at their height under Schiller
and Goethe, when the French Invasion took place--the indignant
enthusiasm excited by this on the minds of the Students--the
formation of Burschenschafts--these in different Universities
united by one general bond--their effect in rousing Germany to
the expulsion of the French--these feelings immortalized in the
songs of Theodore Körner--the People's Battle at Leipsic--the
expulsion of the French followed by a demand for the restoration
of the Germanic Empire--Act of Confederation of the German States
signed--Formation of the Holy Alliance of Sovereigns--
Disappointment of the People--Agitations of the Burschenschaft--
Beautiful ceremonies at the celebration of the Peace Anniversary
at Jena, etc. 1816--farther proceedings of the Borschenschaft--the
celebrated Festival in the Wartburg in 1817, at which the Writings
of Kotzebue ware burnt--Congress of Universities at Jena in 1818,
and Publication of the Constitution of the Burschenschaft--the
influence of these events on the mind of George Sand, and its
consequences
CHAPTER V.
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