Commencement: What’s in the Air at Graduation?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Naval Academy - Annapolis
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<p>Published in the New York Crimes:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/education/edlife/toss22.html?_r=1&oref=slogin%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/education/edlife/toss22.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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IN 1912, for the first time, midshipmen graduating from the United States Naval Academy were awarded officers’ hats at commencement. No longer in need of their midshipmen caps, they spontaneously lobbed them into the air. </p>

<p>Graduates — military and otherwise — have engaged in mass captosses ever since....

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