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SUMMARY:Measured with Ceremonies - Tim Milner\, Darwin Deputy Praelector a
 nd University Ceremonial Officer.
DTSTART:20151117T131000Z
DTEND:20151117T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:The University no longer does business through the profusion o
 f public acts described by Adam Wall in his Customs and Ceremonies of 1798
 \, later revised and re-issued by Henry Gunning in 1828 as The Ceremonies 
 Observed in the Senate-House. The election of the Proctors by the Regent H
 ouse in Congregation on the first day of Michaelmas Term is the last survi
 val of an old method of appointment\; even Chancellors and High Stewards a
 re now elected by ballot rather than in Congregation and to fill certain o
 ther offices where the consent of the Regent House is required\, such as V
 ice-Chancellor\, Orator or Advocate\, a Grace submitted by publication in 
 the Reporter suffices.\n\nThat said\, the University still awakens on Octo
 ber 1st with a ceremony and the final Degree Congregation of the year in m
 id-July heralds the Long Vacation\, even if the calm of former times then 
 fails to descend and business continues. Not only do we still do more cere
 monial than most Universities and spread across much of the year\, but the
 se occasions are rooted in our present constitution and our past operation
 s\, are public not private events as far as the University's members are c
 oncerned and end up involving not a few in the academic community in one w
 ay or another.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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