Individual Milton houses have their own lore, including:

	Pumpkin carving with marshmallow-roasting and scary stories
	Adding plants each year to the Hathaway garden in the name of graduating seniors
	Robbins theme bowling in February: everyone dresses up!
	Poems chosen for seniors and presented on the last night of school
	The Walk for Hunger: some Hallowell girls walk, others cheer for the walkers during the last three miles
	Hallowell "Climb the Wall Night" - meet at the climbing wall, go "over the top," celebrate with Rocky Road ice cream
	Special holiday dinners
	Theme decorating parties around festive seasons
	Welcoming gifts made by the house council on each girl's bed at the start of the school year
	House picnics and barbecues
	"Good talk:" Hathaway house dinners with discussion led by seniors about issues chosen by the girls
	Birthday parties
	House-designed t-shirts
	Boys caroling at girls' houses the night before winter break
	Jazz Combo final exams held before an audience in Forbes Common Room
	Small dinners in the house head's apartment
	After-dinner tea and conversation
	House community service projects

The whole school shares in many traditions, whether they're staged in houses, on the quads, in formal settings, or at graduation, looking up at the chapel

	Convocation at school opening, when the entire school provides a sustained cheer as the Class I students enter
	Class IV Talks
	Skits or songs at morning assemblies to announce activities
	Assembly performances of the Miltones, Octet or 3FU (to wild applause!)
	Mr. Millet's calligraphy on awards and diplomas
	Awarding the Milton sock filled with quarters from each senior to the last person receiving his or her diploma at graduation
	Graduation morning parade from Hathaway to Millet house, saying good-bye and cheering at each house
	Athletes wear Milton colors on game days
	Senior Showcase - seniors perform their best talents to a packed house to support their prom
	Boarding and day student softball tourney, spring nights after dinner
	Senior Project Day - all students visit, admire, watch and listen to the presentations of the senior projects
	Culturefest - an outdoor, day-long celebration of cultures within the Milton Academy community
	Seminar Day - a day-long series of seminars featuring guest lecturers addressing national and global issues
	Swap-It Dance - students come dressed in vintage clothes purchased at Swap-It, the historic K–8 flea market
	Class IV Play
	1212 Productions - plays originally staged in the intimate 1212 classroom in Warren Hall, now performed with minimal tech support in Wigg Hall
	All-School ice cream party to kick off the year