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Updated: June 17, 2025
Can't you see them at their pleasures see them sitting in a beer-garden with a girl and a band, their week's money in their pocket, and the knowledge that they've earned it? Perhaps sometimes they look up the hill and wonder at the craze for it all.
Sometimes he sauntered through the streets of the old town. He looked with awe at the students of the corps, their cheeks gashed and red, who swaggered about in their coloured caps. In the afternoons he wandered about the hills with the girls in the Frau Professor's house, and sometimes they went up the river and had tea in a leafy beer-garden.
Outdoors in the beer-garden Swedish punch was served, and Lasse's spirits began to rise. He tried to play at skittles he had never done so before; and he plucked up courage to utter witticisms. The others laughed, and Lasse drew himself up and came out of his shell. "Splendid people, the Copenhageners!" he whispered to Pelle.
Whether Miss Triscoe decided that this was too intimate or not she left the question. "Do you understand German?" "A little. I studied it at college, and I've cultivated a sort of beer-garden German in Chicago. I can ask for things." "I can't, except in French, and that's worse than English, in Germany, I hear." "Then you must let me be your interpreter up to the last moment. Will you?"
The German university and German law were failures; German society, in an American sense, did not exist, or if it existed, never showed itself to an American; the German theatre, on the other hand, was excellent, and German opera, with the ballet, was almost worth a journey to Berlin; but the curious and perplexing result of the total failure of German education was that the student's only clear gain his single step to a higher life came from time wasted; studies neglected; vices indulged; education reversed; it came from the despised beer-garden and music-hall; and it was accidental, unintended, unforeseen.
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