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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, October 1906

Our Rhodes Scholar

Our Rhodes Scholar.

P. W. Robertson spent the long vacation in Germany, partly at the University of Greifswald and partly in travelling. While at Greifswald, he managed to combine work with pleasure, and the following extracts from one of his letters throws some side-lights on German student life:—"Another very interesting performance was the celebration by the University of its 420th Anniversary. This was quite a big thing. The town was gaily decorated; there was a procession of students, professors and guests through the streets to the line old church. Then the Prince entered with a great blast of trumpets—it was a very impressive scene. In the evening there was a grand Kneipe. The next day the city gave the University a huge Frühschoppen on the old market place. We drank some 20,000 pints of beer." (Kneipe and Frühschoppendenote a revel at night and a drink or two in the morning, respectively.)