They get smaller every year. Codex Manesse (c. 1304)

“Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with dust or any filth, mock by whistling, cry at them with a terrifying voice, or dare to molest in any way whatsoever physically or severely, any, who are called freshmen, in the market, streets, courts, colleges and living houses, or any place whatsoever, and particularly in the present college, when they have entered in order to matriculate or are leaving after matriculation.”

Leipzig University Statute (1495)

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Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, who has a Ph.D. in History with a focus on early medieval education. She teaches at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Read more at:  http://askthepast.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html