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COMMEMORATION

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 765 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COMMEMORATION , a general
term
  for celebrating some past event. It is also the name for the annual act, or
Encaenia
 , the ceremonial closing of the academic year at
Oxford
  University. It consists of a Latin oration in commemoration of benefactors and founders; of the recitation of prize compositions in
prose
  and verse, and the conferring of honorary degrees upon
English
  or foreign celebrities. The ceremony, which is usually on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday, is held in the Sheldonian Theatre, in Broad St.,
Oxford
 . " Commencement " is the
term
  for the equivalent ceremony at
Cambridge
 , and this is also used in the
case
  of American
universities
 .


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