Encaenia

23 Jun 10, 12:00 am

'Encaenia' is the ceremony held annually on the Wednesday of ninth week of Trinity Term at which the University awards honorary degrees to distinguished men and women and commemorates its benefactors. On the morning of the ceremony, the Heads of Colleges, university dignitaries and the honorands assemble, in full academic dress, in one of the colleges, where they enjoy Lord Crewe's benefaction of peaches, strawberries and champagne. They then walk in procession to the Sheldonian Theatre on Broad Street. The University dignitaries enter the theatre in procession; those who are to receive honorary degrees wait in the Divinity School where they sign their names in the Honorary Degrees Book. They are then escorted into the theatre by the bedels.