One man invites his fellow- students, a dozen or a hundred, to a cafe, and provides them with as much beer and as many cheap cigars as their own sense of health and comfort may dictate, or the host may be the Korps itself.

Here, as everywhere, you observe the German sense of discipline and order.

As each new comer enters all those sitting round the table rise, and with heels close together salute.

When the table is complete, a chairman is chosen, whose duty it is to give out the number of the songs.

Printed books of these songs, one to each two men, lie round the table.