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COMMERS (from Lat. commercium)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 774 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COMMERS (from Lat. commercium) , the
German
 
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
founding
 . A
Commers
  consists of. speeches and songs and the drinking of unlimited quantities of
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
salamander
  (ad exercitium Salamandris bibite, tergite). All rise and having emptied their glasses
hammer
  three times on the table with them. On the death of a student, his memory is honoured with a
salamander
 , the glasses being broken to atoms at the
close
 .


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