Definition of "kommers" [kommers]

• A social gathering of German university students at some place of entertainment. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Dr. August Moehrlein was a staunch advocate of the advantage of the kommers as an adjunct to every thoroughly organized university."
• "If he could not gather others for a kommers, he would hold a kommers all by himself, or perchance with the barkeeper."
• "German scholarship has propounded are to be directly attributed to this stimulating good fellowship known as kommers."