Processions

Summary

We have already had occasion several times to refer to the Processions which form so striking a feature in the Ceremonies of the University: but a separate section may be devoted to a subject involving so much etiquette. “You know your own degrees,” says Macbeth at the beginning of the Banquet Scene. Nevertheless, the Registrary and the Esquire Bedells have much marshalling to do, or rather to arrange for, at various public functions.

In the New Statutes, the University Administrative Offices are given in the following order: “the offices of Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, High Steward, Deputy High Steward, Commissary, Proctor, Orator, Registrary, Assistant Registrary, Librarian, Treasurer, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Esquire Bedell, Censor of Non-Collegiate Students.”

The University Teaching Officers, according to the same New Statutes, are the Professors, Readers, University Lecturers and University Demonstrators.

The following is the order of a Procession at a recent special conferring of Honorary Degrees (9 June 1925):

The Esquire Bedells.

the chancellor

The University Marshal.

The Recipients of Honorary Degrees.

the vice-chancellor,

accompanied by the Registrary and the Orator.

The Proctors.

The Burgesses for the University.

Heads of Colleges.

The Regius Professor of Divinity.

The Regius Professor of Hebrew.

The Regius Professor of Greek,

Professors, if Doctors, in the order of their complete Degrees.