Pictured here are Class of 1924 students holding ribbon instead of laurel due to a need for laurel conservation in Massachusetts, and seniors in the Class of 1970 holding Peace signs.

Shown here is a photograph of the first laurel ceremony in 1900, in which the president and vice-president of the senior class carried wreaths of laurel. They are followed by a line of their classmates who processed together to founder Mary Lyon's grave on campus. At her grave the wreaths were hung on the gate posts and then the seniors sang a College song. The ceremony wasn't called Laurel Parade at this time, but simply called the Grove Exercises. 

How many flowers is too many flowers for my laurel parade flower crown? What’s that? There are never too many? Oh right! Anyway, Saturday better get it’s act together and not rain. #laurelparade #yannyparade #flowercrown #mhcreunion2018

The Class of 1978 decided to sing “Bread and Roses,” a song adapted by Mimi Farina from a poem written by James Oppenheim, which is said to have been a slogan for women during a 1912 textile mill strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Singing “Bread and Roses” has remained part of the Laurel Parade tradition to this day, and the words will ring out again this coming Saturday morning! Pictured here are @mhcalums members of the Class of 1978 in their Laurel Parade, holding a banner with the words “The common woman is as common as a common loaf of bread and will rise.”

🎶 🍞 and 🌹, 🍞 and 🌹 🎶 #aswegomarchingmarching #mountholyokeforevershallbe #tbt #laurelparade @mtholyoke (at Mount Holyoke College)

A beautiful day for Laurel Parade 💚💚 . . . #moho #mountholyoke #mhc #mohome #laurelparade #reunions #graduation #massachusetts #adventure #wanderlust #travel (at Mount Holyoke College)

Ain't nobody messing with my clique. #GraduationWeekend2015 #laurelparade #GoldLooksGoodOnUs

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