Raisin Monday probably originated as a initiation ceremony for first year undergraduates, known as bajans or bejants. Students had to give a pound of raisins to a senior student who would have helped them settle into university life, in return for a receipt written in Latin to prove that the raisins had been given. The tradition continues today although raisins have usually been replaced by a bottle of wine and the receipt can be written on anything, the more outrageous the better.
John Dall (1881-1918), son of John Dall of Cupar and Elizabeth Stirling, studied at United College, St Andrews, from 1896, graduating with a first class degree in Mental philosophy in 1901. He went straight on to St Mary's College, St Andrews, graduating with a BD in 1905. He was licensed by Cupar presbytery in the same year and became minister of Rothesay New Church in 1907. He demitted in 1910 to take up a post as professor of church history and history of dogma at Queens University, Kingston.
There is no record of Andrew John Oliphant graduating from the university.
From the guide to the Raisin Monday receipt, St Andrews University, 1904., 1904, (University of St Andrews)
