 Examples include Queima das Fitas and its parade, the "Cortejo da Queima", the Festa das Latas and the "Latada", where the freshmen walk throughout the streets with cans on their feet, and the ripping of the traditional academic suit of the students when they finish their first cycle of studies.Its roots go as far back as the 14th century, but it became most known in the 16th, under the name of the "Investidas", in the University of Coimbra, the oldest of its kind in the country.The praxe is meant to initiate the freshmen into the University institution and to encourage the loss of social inhibitions.