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12. “A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.” -Robert Orben
2. “You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that’s wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school.Nope, that’s worse.
“I believe it’s time for me to fly.” — REO Speedwagon, “Time for Me to Fly” “So let’s set the world on fire. We can burn brighter than the sun.” — fun., “We Are Young”
A class ring in a ring case. This ring is made of white ultrium and contains a synthetic sapphire gemstone. [1] Damavand College class ring of 1975. In the United States and Canada, a class ring (also known as a graduation, graduate, senior, or grad ring) is a ring worn by students and alumni to commemorate their final academic year and/or graduation, generally for a high school, college, or ...
In some graduation ceremonies caps have been dispensed with for men, being issued only to women, who do wear them indoors, or have been abandoned altogether. This has led to urban legends in universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland which have as a common theme the idea that the wearing of the cap was abandoned in protest at the admission ...
Touch of Class - as part of the preparation for graduation, the grade twelve students traditionally have their grad pictures taken before their graduation date. All high school students come in in their best formal wear for the day. Marathon Dance - a school dance where students dance for a set time period to earn money for charity. The ...
The journal of a male student at Amherst College in 1894 recounts an invitation and trip to an early prom at neighboring Smith College for women. The word prom at that time may have been a fancy description for an ordinary junior or senior class dance, but prom soon took on larger-than-life meaning for high school students.
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