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Light & VerityClass actsAlums these days may get a complimentary shirt or ball cap when they show up at their class reunion, but that’s a mere shadow of a once-elaborate custom of reunion costumes. From the 1910s to the 1940s, entire classes would don matching outfits to march in a reunion parade from the campus to Yale Field, where the Yale and Harvard baseball teams would square off. The costumes varied widely: sailors, Scotsmen in kilts and tams, convicts in horizontal stripes, wooden soldiers. Photos from our reunion coverage in 1939 (above) show that the Class of ’14S opted to dress as bakers that year. Anyone up for a revival in 2026?
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