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  The Key

  The Upper School for Boys junior class is given a small key by the senior class as a way to symbolize the passing of responsibility. Each senior identifies qualities to describe their junior classmate. A larger Class Color Key is designed by the senior class and includes the adjectives chosen for each of the juniors.

• The Challenges

  The newest tradition in school history, the Challenges are a set of
  opportunities to connect USB seniors to the history and experience of the classes before them. Each year the seniors complete the set of challenges and create the set for next year's class. On the last day of school for the seniors, the challenges are read to the USB Grade 11 students. The rising seniors must successfully complete these challenges before they are allowed to petition the USB administration for their Senior Benefits. Failure to complete the Challenges before the end of the first semester results in a black tie adorning the handle of the key, and the grade 12 students must share their senior benefits with the grade 11 class. 

• Senior Benefits

  When the USB seniors have completed the Challenges from the previous senior class, they formally petition the USB administration for exemptions or modification of rules, such as permission to leave campus during lunch, small changes to uniform, etc.

• Step Songs

  Following the Awards Ceremony on May Day, all the doors to the school are locked except the front door and one other. The junior class has to find the open door, and then Step Songs can begin. The juniors begin and sing one verse about the other classes and the faculty. Songs are traditionally humorous and/or touching. In between each verse, they say “step” and move up a step. The sophomores and freshmen then sing shorter songs, also in tribute to the seniors. The seniors cap the evening off by singing the Alma Mater.