Members of the University of Southern Mississippi’s dance squad prepare for homecoming events. Homecoming is a tradition at American colleges, universities and also high schools. Schools usually hold a weekend for this purpose each fall. Homecoming weekend is a time when (36) students return to get together with (37) students and with old friends.
The weekend usually centers on a football game and a homecoming dance. Many schools also hold a (38) . And some burn a (39) fire to show support for their team.
The University of Illinois has (40) for many years to have held the first college homecoming weekend in nineteen ten. The (41) of that celebration saw it as a chance for students and former students to get to know each other. They said it would create more (42) to the university. And they said it would lead other universities to follow.
We found a research paper on the Web site of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was completed this year by members of the university archives program.
It seems they found that Baylor University in Texas held an event called "Home-Coming" one year earlier, in 1909. It was organized as a time to meet former student friends, recall old (43) and "catch the Baylor spirit again." (44) .
And Northern Illinois University has records to show it held a homecoming weekend even earlier, in 1906. (45)
Today most American colleges hold a homecoming weekend. At most universities, (46) . Things can get a little wild. But some students say the weekend is fun only when their football team has a winning season. Still, whoever started it; homecoming weekend remains an important social event at many schools in the United States.
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