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Graduation
Hey guys, do you see many senior students take graduation photos in our school these days? These pretty boys and girls wear different kinds of clothes with smiling face.
1. What do u feel when you see the senior students wearing the graduation clothes?
2. Do you know about the celebration for graduation?
About Graduation
Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become graduates. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as graduates. The date of graduation is often called graduation day. The graduation ceremony itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. In the United States and Canada, the term is additionally increasingly being used to refer to the advancement from a primary or secondary school level.
When ceremonies are associated, they usually include a procession of the academic staff and candidates and a valediction.
At the college and university level the faculty will usually wear academic dress at the formal ceremonies, as will the trustees and degree candidates.
"Graduation" at the college and university level occurs when the presiding officer confers degrees upon candidates, either individually or en masse, even if graduates physically receive their diploma later at a smaller college or departmental ceremony. After degree completion, graduates can be referred to by their graduating year.
In some places, graduation parties to celebrate graduation from school, college or university are popular. In a recent 2014 nationwide survey in the United States, $985 was the average amount spent on graduation parties.
Origin/Tradition for caps
The tradition of wearing graduation hats in Sweden has been in place since the mid 18th century. The cap is typically a white sailor hat with a black or dark blue band around it, a crown motif and a black peak at the front.
The graduation hat tradition was initially brought into practice by students at Uppsala University. The headgear then became popular across several other European nations as well.（
Academic dress
Academic dress is a traditional form of clothing for academic settings, primarily tertiary (and sometimes secondary) education, worn mainly by those who have been admitted to a university degree (or similar), or hold a status that entitles them to assume them (e.g., undergraduate students at certain old universities). It is also known as academicals and, in the United States, as academic regalia.
Contemporarily, it is commonly seen only at graduation ceremonies, but formerly academic dress was, and to a lesser degree in many ancient universities still is, worn daily. Today the ensembles are distinctive in some way to each institution, and generally consists of a gown (also known as a robe) with a separate hood, and usually a cap (generally either a square academic cap, a tam, or a bonnet). Academic dress is also worn by members of certain learned societies and institutions as official dress.
Graduation Day Celebration
In Sweden, the graduation day by the end of high school is celebrated traditionally. The official recognition is handed over to the students who are now eligible to take pride. The attire includes sailor-white clothes and a graduation hat. The hat holds the age old tradition of the country.
The celebrations are a sight. Groups often gather around with parents and loved ones. There are rallies on the road following the ceremony. There are all kinds of gifts hung around and chants of 'hurrah' echo all day long. Students hire floats for the day. They are then decked with decor before setting out on a mesmerizing tour.
It's seldom possible that the passer-by remains oblivious of the endless stream of party music. Students celebrate the day with knocking back champagne all over. The ceremony takes place only by the end of April. The hats symbolize the reward for the knowledge gained by the hard work and the students are crowned with it by the end of the graduation. They are then worn with pride until that joyous day when school's out for summer and, indeed, forever.
