In his 1988 book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum observes how truly the skills learned in pre-school and kindergarten launch us into social and cultured life; such rudimentary learning as pairing with a partner and holding hands to walk-in-line when proceeding as a group– all the while eschewing chewing gum while in-motion. Perhaps the last formal application of this lesson occurs at college graduation, dressed in unfamiliar robery, balancing square-hats, and trying not to call attention to yourself getting to your seat on the floor of the Chiles Center.
All under the watchful care of MACE-WIELDING senior Marshals attempting as best as they can to keep order among the Faculty too, which august and more colorfully garbed assemblage is sometimes as challenged keeping their lines and precedence as is the body of celebrating and properly gleeful graduates.
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