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As a leader of the Trier Tavern Club, a group of students “whose main ambition was to get drunk as frequently and riotously as possible,” Marx began playing cards, getting into drunken brawls, and was even wounded in a duel.<ref>Francis Wheen, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3KOyuSakn80C Karl Marx: A Life]'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001) ISBN 0393321576, pp. 15-16</ref> He spent 24 hours in jail “for disturbing the peace by rowdiness and drunkenness at night.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/misc/1841-cb.htm Leaving Certificate from Berlin University], Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''Collected Works'', Vol. 1, pp. 703-704</ref> His father tried to dissuade the young Marx from such vices, warning his son that “youthful sins in any enjoyment that is immoderate or even harmful in itself meet with frightful punishment.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1836-fl1.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], 1836, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 648-652</ref>

As a leader of the Trier Tavern Club, a group of students “whose main ambition was to get drunk as frequently and riotously as possible,” Marx began playing cards, getting into drunken brawls, and was even wounded in a duel.<ref>Francis Wheen, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3KOyuSakn80C Karl Marx: A Life]'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001) ISBN 0393321576, pp. 15-16</ref> He spent 24 hours in jail “for disturbing the peace by rowdiness and drunkenness at night.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/misc/1841-cb.htm Leaving Certificate from Berlin University], Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''Collected Works'', Vol. 1, pp. 703-704</ref> His father tried to dissuade the young Marx from such vices, warning his son that “youthful sins in any enjoyment that is immoderate or even harmful in itself meet with frightful punishment.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1836-fl1.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], 1836, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 648-652</ref>

His father's warning had no discernible effect. Years later, in England, Marx went on “many a pub crawl.”<ref>Francis Wheen, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3KOyuSakn80C Karl Marx: A Life]'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001) ISBN 0393321576, pp. 6, 74. Cf. Jack Newcombe, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=8VMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105#v=onepage&q&f=false The Karl Marx Memorial Pub Crawl]," ''Life'', October 25, 1968, pp. 105-106; "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/86431.stm Cheers to Karl Marx], BBC, 1 May, 1998; Richard Newberry, "[http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=145&ID_articolo=74&ID_sezione=308&sezione=A London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx]," ''La Stampa'', November 26, 2007</ref> On one of these, Marx (by then a husband and father himself nearly 40 years old),<ref>Boris Nicolaievsky and and Otto Maenchen-Helfen, (Trans. Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=4rbH49xtcpkC Karl Marx: Man and Fighter]'' (London: Methuen, 1936) ISBN 1406727032, p. 40</ref>accompanied by Wilhelm Liebknecht and Edgar Bauer, drank in no less than 18 different pubs, By the last pub, Marx's “inebriated comments”<ref>N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen and Jeff McMahan, eds., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DEQNjMMF4tkC Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover]'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0195325192, p. 278</ref> that Germany “would yet outclass all other nations” nearly got them, once again, into a fight. They fled into the street where, according to Liebknecht, “we broke four or five street lamps.”<ref>Wilhelm Liebknecht (Trans. Ernest Untermann), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=kEYv3uqzDvsC Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs]'' (Chicago: C. H. Kerr & company, 1901), p. 150</ref>

His father's warning had no discernible effect. Years later, in England, Marx went on “many a pub crawl.”<ref>Francis Wheen, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3KOyuSakn80C Karl Marx: A Life]'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001) ISBN 0393321576, pp. 6, 74. Cf. Jack Newcombe, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=8VMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105#v=onepage&q&f=false The Karl Marx Memorial Pub Crawl]," ''Life'', October 25, 1968, pp. 105-106; "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/86431.stm Cheers to Karl Marx], BBC, 1 May, 1998; Richard Newberry, "[http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=145&ID_articolo=74&ID_sezione=308&sezione=A London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx]," ''La Stampa'', November 26, 2007</ref> On one of these, Marx (by then a husband and father himself nearly 40 years old),<ref>Boris Nicolaievsky and and Otto Maenchen-Helfen, (Trans. Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=4rbH49xtcpkC Karl Marx: Man and Fighter]'' (London: Methuen, 1936) ISBN 1406727032, p. 40</ref> accompanied by Wilhelm Liebknecht and Edgar Bauer, drank in no less than 18 different pubs, By the last pub, Marx's “inebriated comments”<ref>N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen and Jeff McMahan, eds., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DEQNjMMF4tkC Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover]'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0195325192, p. 278</ref> that Germany “would yet outclass all other nations” nearly got them, once again, into a fight. They fled into the street where, according to Liebknecht, “we broke four or five street lamps.”<ref>Wilhelm Liebknecht (Trans. Ernest Untermann), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=kEYv3uqzDvsC Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs]'' (Chicago: C. H. Kerr & company, 1901), p. 150</ref>

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