House Traditions
At the beginning of each academic year, Quincy House hosts a field day in which second, third, and fourth year students compete against each other in athletic contests. The "Quincy Assassins" is an annual event in which students target a fellow house member with a Nerf gun. Another recently-implemented tradition of the House is its talent show.
On the day each spring when freshmen learn of their House affiliations for their upperclass years, Quincy House students storm the yard with their house flag, led by someone wearing a penguin suit. The 2011 theme for Quincy was "Quinception", inspired by the film Inception.
There had been a tradition in the 1970s for a weekly dinner in one of the small rooms off the main dining hall where excessive amounts of cannabis were smoked; by the end, or even the middle, of dinner a haze would usually settle over the room. This continued at least into spring term 1980 but was phased out not long after that.
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