Word: dominie
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Dates: during 1893-1893
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...Vice-Chancellor and the two Proctors. At the Commemoration ceremonies in the Sheldonian Theatre, - which correspond in their general character to our Commencement exercises in Sanders Theatre, - the Vice-Chancellor and two Proctors alone are covered, and raise their caps ceremoniously when the formal leave of the "domini doctores" and "magistri" is asked to various measures. The cap used, indeed to be worn by Professors (and by Professors alone) at lectures; but this custom has almost entirely disappeared. I have every reason to believe that the same usage rules at Cambridge...