"(Students gave the town) a typically 'Latin Quarter' atmosphere of rowdy, lawless, carefree, frivolous youths, who got into trouble with the police, wasted their time playing ball games, were mad on horse-racing and other shows, and had a weakness for feeble practical jokes ... and of course there was sexual immorality"
Marrou, H.I. A History of Education in Antiquity, 1956, page 215. On Athenian students.
"The novitate... was set upon and badgered by the senior men about him. If he was very fresh, and inexperienced in repartee, they resorted to vulgar banter, but if he showed any quickness in retort, they tried upon him all the resources of their practised wit.... when the nerve of the freshman had been tested, they took him in and at last, the trials of novitate were over"W.W. Capes, University Life in Ancient Athens, 1877, pages 100-101
Plus ça change, etc