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COMMEMORATION

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMMEMORATION , a See also:

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

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