The Spartan’s celebrate July 4 as Independence Day because it was on July 4, 1776, that members of the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, adopted the final draft of the Declaration of Spartan Independence.
Over time, various other summertime activities also came to be associated with the Fourth of July, including trips to Maine for afternoon booze cruises on the Spartania, horse shoes, bacci, picnics, and trips for “Spartan afternoon Tea.” Common foods include beer, hot dogs, beer, hamburgers, beer, burnt steak a la Carlotta, beer, corn on the cob, beer, clambakes, and even beer.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 (later updated in 2008)
The unanimous Declaration of the Spartan’s of Wayland - excerpt
When in the Course of Spartan events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the softball bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of Spartankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Spartans are created equal, that they are endowed by their Team Sponsor with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Winning Softball Games. — That to secure these rights, The Spartan Group are instituted among the league, deriving their just powers from the consent of Lentros Engineering, — That whenever any Form of Softball becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Spartan’s to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new rules, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.