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In Pictures: There’s no place like foam for St Andrews students on Raisin Monday

In Pictures: There’s no place like foam for St Andrews students on Raisin Monday

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In Pictures: There’s no place like foam for St Andrews students on Raisin Monday

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Oct. 20, 2025

In Pictures: There’s no place like foam for St Andrews students on Raisin Monday

By PA News

Published: 13:22, 20 October 2025

| Updated: 14:30, 20 October 2025

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Hundreds of students at St Andrews University descended on campus for the annual foam party.

First-year students took to St Salvator’s Quad to take part in the messy ceremony for Raisin Monday.

Students got a soaking as part of the famous event inspired by the 600-year-old Scottish university’s “academic families” tradition, which sees older students adopt first-year students as “children” and help guide them in a system of mentoring.

The messy display is the culmination of a weekend of festivities where first years say thank you to their more senior student ‘parents’ for mentoring them (Jane Barlow/PA)

Students, some wearing costumes, use shaving foam (Jane Barlow/PA)

The unusual tradition is believed to date back to the university’s founding in 1413 (Jane Barlow/PA)

The foam fight is intended to help freshers meet new people and settle in (Jane Barlow/PA)

Hundreds of students took part in the annual tradition (Jane Barlow/PA)

Many students dress up in fancy dress or face paint (Jane Barlow/PA)

Students take part in the traditional Raisin Monday foam fight (Jane Barlow/PA)

The foam fight marks the end of Raisin weekend celebrations (Jane Barlow/PA)

Raisin is about celebrating new lifelong friends, and taking part in a tradition that makes St Andrews different (Jane Barlow/PA)

(Jane Barlow/PA)

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