Teachers and administrators at commencement place their tassels on the left. Traditionally, the moving of the tassel at graduation is called, turning the tassel or the turning of the tassel ceremony.. It symbolizes one's transition from candidate to graduate.
Bailey, D., Bailey, S. & Hufford, M. (1996) Copperheads Smell Like Cucumbers. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns001450/. Bailey, Dave, Sherman Bailey, and Mary Hufford.
Re: Describe what the smell of a corpse actually smells like. what is the smell of death? It is hard top put into words, it does smell like rotting flesh. But I have noticed, and maybe I am just unusual, that it also depends upon what they died from. I used to visit a hospice, and my own mother died young of cancer.