Students
from St Andrews University take part in a foam fight as part of the
traditional Raisin Monday celebrations in St Andrews, Scotland. The
tradition dates back to the early days of the university when new
students would give senior students a pound (0.45kg) 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. Prince
William and Kate Middleton, who met at the university as undergraduates,
took part in the celebrations in 2001.
