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“In Leipzig [in the 14th century], the university found it necessary to promulgate a rule against throwing stones at the professors. As late as 1495, a German statute explicitly forbade anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace