Traditions
The college holds Formal Hall once a fortnight, in which students enter the dining hall in their academic gowns, which must remain worn until the end of silent grace. The formal is signalled over when the JCR president bows out formally to the Principal and student body. JCR events are held every year, with an informal ball and sportsman's ball being held at the end of michaelmas term, and a summer ball being held after exams in easter term. Academic gowns are also worn at university matriculation and college matriculation and also at graduation.
The annual Trevs Day takes place after exams in easter term and is a focus of much celebration and revelry for students. Each year it receives a different theme, with the theme for 2010 being American fraternity. The college also hosts TrevStock, an annual music festival for college and university bands which takes place in the quad.
The college regulations state that "any student found picking the daffodils shall be hanged, drawn and quartered at dawn on Palace Green."
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“Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes regretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.”
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