People of this sort often signed their names with elaborately stylized monograms containing the letters v, c, and f, which stood for vivat, crescat, floreat (“VEE-vaht, CRESS-cot, FLO-ray-aht”). These people could be identified by a Zirkel (“TSURK-ull”) or a system of uniform called the couleur. These people viewed Schmisse (“SHMISS-uh”) as a mark of honor. Groups of these people used Schläger (“SHLAY-gur”) while engaging in the traditional practice of Mensur (“men-ZOOR”). These people promoted an ideal of Grossdeutschland (“GROSS-doitch-lahnt”) while leading a convention known as the Wartburg (“VART-burg”) Festival. One of these people called a dramatist a “traitor to the nation” before confronting him inside his house in Mannheim. That one of these people, Karl Sand (“zahnt”), murdered August von Kotzebue, prompting Klemens von Metternich to issue the Karlsbad Decrees that banned these people’s Burschenschaften (“BOOR-shin-shahft-in”). For 10 points, what sort of people participated in duels while attending institutions in Göttingen and Heidelberg? ■END■
ANSWER: German university students [or German college students; or Universitätsstudenten; accept members of German student associations or German fraternities or German fraternal associations or equivalents; accept Burschenschaften until read; prompt on academic fencers or duelists by asking “what sort of people participated in this particular tradition of fencing duels?”; prompt on Germans or Deutscher; prompt on youth or equivalents; prompt on scholars or equivalents]
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