The conferring of degrees at Oxford

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["Graphic" Copyright. AT OXFORD. Drawn by Sydney P. Hall, M.v.o.] THE CONFERRING OF DEGREES The Degrees are usually conferred in the old Divinity School. The Vice-Chancellor confers them, and sits with the Senior Proctor on his right, the Junior on his left, The candidates are presented by senior members of their colleges. The Senior Proctor reads out the names of the candidates for the Doctor, Bachelor, and M.A. degrees, the Junior for B. A. And after reading them, the two together perform the strange survival of the Proctor's Walk. After this the candidates for the M.A. degree kneel, three at a time, at the feet of the Vice-Chancellor, who lays a Testament on their heads and recites the Latin formula of admission. It concludes with the words in nomine Domini, Patris, Filii, et Spiritus, Sancti, at which the Vice-Chancellorand the Proctors reverently raise their caps. The candidates for the B.A. degree do not kneel. After admission all retire, change their gowns and put on their new hoods, and then, led by the bedel, return and make their reverence to the Vice-Chancellor.

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