Traditions
Mary Baldwin College has a tradition of student governance embodied in three boards: Honor Council, Judicial Board, and Student Advocates, and a Student Government Association. Students at Mary Baldwin "won't lie cheat or steal...you have their word on it, in writing".
Commencement weekend is celebrated with a ball and Graduation. The commencement of 1992 saw the dedication of the new William G. Pannill Student Center as well as three honorary degrees in honor of the Sesquicentennial (150th) Anniversary of the College.
Each class has their own class colors, and the incoming first year class receives the class colors of the recently graduated senior class. The current colors are: 2013 - Lavender and White, 2014 - Scarlet and Gold, and 2015 - Green and White,2016 - Purple and Gold.
Every year in Autumn, Mary Baldwin celebrates Apple Day, a holiday in which students collect leftover apples from various locations throughout Virginia. In recent years, the collected apples have been distributed to homeless people.
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“And all the great traditions of the Past
They saw reflected in the coming time.
And thus forever with reverted look
The mystic volume of the world they read,
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
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—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
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