encaenia

The winning poem is read at Encaenia.

He died in 1908, sometime before the Encaenia ceremony on 25 June, at which he was remembered.

Encaenia is an academic or sometimes ecclesiastical ceremony, usually performed at colleges or universities.

The annual Encaenia (Commemoration) ceremony.

Fordham College at Rose Hill annually stages an Encaenia on an evening near the conclusion of the academic year.

One of Oxford University's oldest tradition - Encaenia, when honorary degrees are handed out to a select few from public life and academia.

In 341 the council of the Dedication or Encaenia was held under Placillus at Antioch.

On certain occasions, e.g. the Encaenia garden party, by tradition, graduates wear gown and hood without subfusc.

Back to the 1950's.and all the pomp and ceremony of an Encaenia at the Sheldonian Theatre.

Subfusc is worn at university matriculation, at university examinations and degree ceremonies and at Encaenia.

Choristers frequently sing at University occasions and previously the School has provided the Chancellor's Page for Encaenia ceremonies.

In 1979 he was awarded a Doctorate of Civil Law honoris causa at the Oxford Encaenia.

When Heber declaimed the poem at that year's Encaenia ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre, it was given an enthusiastic reception.

Encaenia: Fordham College at Rose Hill hosts an Encaenia each year in early May.

Wilde won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his poem "Ravenna", which reflected on his visit there the year before, and he duly read it at Encaenia.

On May 24, 2003, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick by the lieutenant-governor in council, at UNB's 174th Encaenia.

At certain universities, Encaenia is an annual ceremony typically involving the presentation of honorary degrees to distinguished alumni and to distinguished personages from the worlds of arts and sciences.

At Oxford University, the ceremony at which honorary degrees are granted is known as the Encaenia, from a Greek word meaning festival of renewal, and calls for the honorees to be introduced in Latin.

At some institutions, Encaenia is the evening shortly before commencement on which the College honors the graduating class with awards and prizes following a procession of candidates and faculty in academic regalia, often joined by trustees and administrators.

Dorothy L. Sayers based the physical description of her fictional character Lord Peter Wimsey on that of Ridley after seeing him read his poem "Oxford" at the Encaenia ceremony in July 1913.

The most famous Encaenia is the ceremony at the University of Oxford, which usually takes place on the Wednesday of the ninth week of Trinity Term (i.e. a Wednesday in the latter part of June).

The Encaenia is depicted in the film Shadowlands and in the Morse episode "Twilight of the Gods", and is depicted in the Jeffrey Archer novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.

Although academic dress is today rarely worn outside commencement ceremonies or other academic rituals such as encaenia in the U.S., graduation ceremonies have gained in popularity and have expanded to high school graduations, middle school, elementary school and even kindergarten graduation ceremonies.

At Encaenia, the honorary degree-giving occasion in the summer, the dons process to their hearts' content, tricked out in gowns indicating academic status, Latin is intoned by the yard, and the hapless distinguished guests who are being given degrees are thrust into fancy dress and towed around the city.

The University Orator at the University of Cambridge makes a speech in Latin marking the achievements of each of the honorands at the annual Honorary Degree Congregations, as does the Public Orator at the Encaenia ceremony at the University of Oxford.