<p>Green Streetie here (Tyler)</p>
<p>Unless I missed it, no one has mentioned the Commencement Day Diploma Circle. When you go to the podium, you don’t get your own…you get anyone’s, basically. After the ceremony, everyone repairs to the Scales-King lawn of the Quad, stands in a circle and madly passes the diplomas! It is amazing how fast you get your own!</p>
<p>Linen napkins in their cubbies – I think those have probably gone by the wayside with the newer dining system. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>Fire rope tests in Scott Gymnasium – I think those have gone by the wayside too. Luckily.</p>
<p>Fire drills – at the ungodliest hours, but rewarded with Dunk’n Donuts. However, if the entirety of the house does not get out in the prescribed time, the drill was repeated – sans donuts. By the way, it was helpful to be friends with the house fire marshals!</p>
<p>Competence exams in your major – no longer in existence. Mine ('77) was the “Last Competent Class” and I’m planning on wearing my special button to our reunion in May.</p>
<p>Other nice traditions – seniors caroling on the morning of Christmas weekend and on May Day, little sisters delivering hand picked flowers (the only day they were allowed to pick from the campus crop) along with breakfast in bed to big sisters (don’t know if those were just Tyler House or campus-wide.)</p>