Show NOT SAVED BY HIS RANK german emperor was hazed by the students at donn bonn dr W dark clark robinson binson Eo of edinburg was a classmate of emperor william of germany at bonn says the boston transcript telling of his first meeting with the german emperor he said the other kotlier day it was in the fall of 78 when I 1 first met the emperor he was a student at bonn I 1 shall never forget the amusing spectacle he presented you know it is the custom oi 01 the students at bonn to talce take a daily plunge in the waters of the rhine for the new man this is ia a trying ordeal when they go down to the rhine to talce take their first swim they are repeatedly ducked by the older students until they cry for mercy everyone was on the lookout for the princes initial appearance and when he ventured into the river he was ducked unmercifully but william would never give up down again and again went the future emp emperors eroes head but he pluckily refused to give up tip finally when he had reached the verge of total cI collapse lapse he was pulled out of the water looking more like a drowned rat than alive a live man it took us nearly twenty minutes to bring around germanys germanas Germ anys future ruler |