Desire under the elms at New Haven used to reach its peak on the second Thursday in May. The junior class would assemble at 5 p. m. around the Yale Fence on the Old Campus while hundreds of other students and guests looked on from the sidelines and from surrounding dormitory windows. Out among the juniors would pass 60 grave-faced seniors, one at a time, each hunting a certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day."...
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