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A few hours of sitting to celebrate years of not sitting still.
means The completion of a course of study, usually marked by a ceremony where degrees or diplomas are conferred.
from From Latin 'gradus' meaning 'step' or 'stage' — the same root that gives us 'grade' and 'gradual.' Medieval Latin 'graduari' meant 'to take a degree,' literally 'to advance by steps.' So a graduation is, fittingly, a stepping up — and the gown-and-cap ritual is just the visible foot landing on the next stair.
- square hat
- The mortarboard mimics a medieval scholar's biretta cap
- tassel flip
- Moving it left-to-right marks your official status change
- latin roots
- Comes from gradus, meaning step or degree
- pomp sound
- That song is Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March
- cap toss
- West Point's 1912 class started the hat-throwing tradition
harvard commencement — annual ceremony at harvard university since 1642, one of the oldest graduation traditions in north america
oxford degree day — ceremonial conferring of degrees at oxford university, dating back to the 13th century
us military academy graduation — west point's annual ceremony in may, attended by thousands, often features speeches from us leaders