Slovenian High-School Students, Alcohol, Burschenschaft and Women

Abstract

Masaryk not only exerted an influence on a large part of Slovene youth in a political and ideological sense; the young also adopted his recommendations regarding a healthy and ethical attitude towards life. One of the more important questions for Czech society at the time was that of alcoholism. Masaryk, who was a university Professor, published a special brochure about this problem. The nationally radical high-school student movement in Slovenia, which to a great extent followed Masaryk's views and suggestions, believed this to be one of the key questions or problems for highschool and university student societies in Vienna, and Graz as well as in Prague. The periodical Omladina published a number of articles in which students - in most cases - made reference precisely to Masaryk's warnings and discussions about the spread and perniciousness of excessive “drinking”; the question they were keen to add to discussions in this context was that of Burschenschaft.