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COMMERS (from Lat. commercium)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 774 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMMERS (from See also:Lat. commercium) , the See also:German See also:term for the German students' social gatherings held annually on occasions such as the breaking-up of term and the anniversary of the university's See also:founding. A Commers consists of. speeches and songs and the drinking of unlimited quantities of See also:beer. The arrangements are governed by officials (Chargierte) elected by the students from among themselves. Strict rules as to drinking exist, and the chairman after each speech calls for what is called a See also:salamander (ad exercitium Salamandris bibite, tergite). All rise and having emptied their glasses See also:hammer three times on the table with them. On the See also:death of a student, his memory is honoured with a salamander, the glasses being broken to atoms at the See also:close.

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