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Many Hill School traditions have been passed along through five generations – more than 160 years – of Hill students. Today’s young men and women honor Hill students who came before them both by maintaining School customs and building upon the past as original ideas evolve into time-honored traditions. |
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During lunch on Monday through Friday and one night a week during the fall and spring terms, the entire school community gathers in the Dining Room for a family-style seated meal.
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Two times a week, the School holds a required, nondenominational Chapel service. Hill students and faculty serve as the speakers during these services. Voluntary services are offered each weekend during the school year.
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The Hill maintains a formal academic dress code that requires boys to wear a coat and tie and girls to wear a blazer and appropriate collared Oxford shirt.
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The Hill and Lawrenceville maintain the fifth oldest high school sports rivalry in the United States, with the first contest between the schools dating back to 1887.
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The day before Commencement, all graduating boys receive a Hill School tie and girls receive a Hill School scarf at the Alumni Association Induction Brunch.
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Following the annual Commencement ceremony, most of the new graduates jump in The Dell, the on-campus pond, as a way of officially marking their graduation from The Hill and sharing one final bonding experience with their classmates.
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A game unique to The Hill, “javelin ball” or j-ball is similar to baseball but is played with a tennis ball, tennis racquet, and modified rules.
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“Whatsoever things are true” is The Hill’s motto, and truth is the School’s highest ideal – truth in the classroom, truth between teacher and student, and truth between the student and his or her peers.
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All sixth form students are required to purchase the distinguished navy blue Hill sixth form blazer, which is embellished with a patch bearing The Hill School crest and the student's year of graduation.
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Female faculty members and sixth form girls gather for the Sixth Form Tea on the Sunday prior to graduation.
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