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.
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.