Post secondary institutes today are often viewed as being the hub of major partying and debauchery amongst the student body. How long as this opinion been held by society? Has it always been that way? Is there any pre-20th century instances of universities being regarded as such?
Basically, as long as there have been Universities.
Hannah Skoda in "Medieval Violence: Physical Brutality in Northern France, 1270-1330" cites a 13th Century play; Le jeu de la feuillée by Adam de la Halle and comments: "The sharp sarcasm of Adam's remark is effective because it engages with two polarized stereotypes of student behaviour: on the one hand, students could be disparagingly characterized as too absorbed in study and religion to partake in macho pursuits of drinking, violent games, and sexual relations; on the other hand, they were repeatedly condemned as drunken and violent rapists. The comedy's exploitation of these two diametrically opposed models, an opposition that is a source of humour in itself, demonstrates their currency in the thirteenth century."