Word: class-day
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...with packets containing a voting card, lapel pin and license plates for every member. Nancy Pelosi set aside more than three and a half hours for faux-swearing-in photos: the real oath was taken by the entire House on the floor just after noon, but everyone wanted a class-day picture with their families and the new Speaker...
After the punch, plumcakes and drunken Puritans of the 17th century were toned down during the 18th, revelry switched venues and Class Day became the focus during the 19th century, with its dances and wild scramble around the Class-Day Tree. Commencement unruliness during the 20th century showed a more radical side in the closing years of the 1960s...
...Class-Day Tree...
...addition to the drinking, feasting, and large dances held in Harvard Hall or under lanterns in the Yard, there was ritual scramble around the Class-Day tree...
...last observance of the Class-Day Tree took place...