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Celebrating Raisin Monday with foam

2012-10-30  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION


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Foam covered students from St Andrews University participate in the traditional Raisin Monday celebrations in St Andrews, Scotland, yesterday. The tradition dates back to the early days of the university when new students would give senior students 0.45 kilograms of raisins in gratitude for their help in adapting to university life, in exchange for a receipt written in Latin. Failure to produce such a receipt could result in a dousing in the local fountain. Nowadays the raisins have been replaced with a bottle of wine and the dousing with foam.


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