"In certain days, students of philosophy organize public disputes. The learned dispute is accompanied by ritual gestures, animating it by the most funny way. The are many different original methods, asking questions, at the same time to roll long rosary on your own hand, to clap hands and tap with heels. There are also other, also carefully respected nuances of moving, for example - to jump up, asking questions or responding to opponent. By such a way, in spite of the fact that tirades of the opponents usually are taken from works of classics and make honor mainly to the memory of a philosopher who quotes them, nevertheless gesticulating and entrechat of polemizing parties create illusion of a hot discussion.
During the solemn handicap on eloquence, a monk declared as a winner accomplishes the triumph round siting as on horseback on shoulders of defeated opponent."