sheldonian
The Oxford Degree
Ceremony
By
J. Wells
Fellow of Wadham College
Oxford
At the Clarendon Press
1906
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH
NEW YORK AND TORONTO
PREFACE
[Pg iii]The object of this little book is to attempt to set forth the meaning ofour forms and ceremonies, and to show how much of University history isinvolved in them. It naturally makes no pretensions to independentresearch; I have simply tried to make popular the results arrived at inDr. Rashdall's great book on the Universities of the Middle Ages, andin the Rev. Andrew Clark's invaluable Register of the University ofOxford (published by the Oxford Historical Society). My obligations tothese two books will be patent to all who know them; it has not,however, seemed necessary to give definite references either to these orto Anstey's Munimenta Academica (Rolls Series), which also has beenconstantly used.
I have tried as far as possible to introduce the language of thestatutes, whether past or present; the forms actually used in the degreeceremony itself are given in Latin and translated; in other cases arendering has usually been given, but sometimes the original has beenretained, when the words[Pg iv] were either technical or such as would beeasily understood by all.
The illustrations, with which the Clarendon Press has furnished thebook, are its most valuable part. Every Oxford man, who cares for thehistory of his University, will be glad to have the reproduction of theportrait of the fourteenth-century Chancellor and of the Universityseal.
I have to thank Dr. Rashdall and the Rev. Andrew Clark for most kindlyreading through my chapters, and for several suggestions, and ProfessorOman for special help in the Appendix on 'The University Staves'.
J.W.
CONTENTS
 CHAPTER I 
The Degree Ceremony
 CHAPTER II
The Meaning of the Degree Ceremony
 CHAPTER III
The Preliminaries of the Degree Ceremony
 CHAPTER IV
The Officers of the University
 CHAPTER V
University Dress
 CHAPTER VI
The Places of the Degree Ceremony
 APPENDIX I
The Public Assemblies of the University of Oxford
 APPENDIX II
The University Staves
 INDEX
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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