convocation

How To Use convocation In A Sentence

• Hejazi gave a speech, which boomed from the speakers over the convocation mall, leaving cookie nibblers stunned.
• The degrees which Oxford and Cambridge conferred in Grammar did not involve residence or entitle the recipients to a vote in Convocation; but the conferment was accompanied by ceremonies which were almost parodies of the solemn proceedings of graduation or inception in a recognised Faculty, a birch taking the place of a book as a symbol of the power and authority entrusted to the graduand. Life in the Medieval University
• It is also clear that the most desirable way forward would actively involve the University Convocation.
• The Standing Committee of Convocation may debate and submit a representative view on any issue which affects the University, and its aims are essentially to support and promote the interests of the University in the widest possible sense.
• From Megiddo in 1485 BC to Kosovo in ad 1999, this argument runs, the only thing all wars have had in common has been to increase governments' powers of convocation and coercion.
• Arch. suorum suffraganeorum sibi subditorum universorum, prælatorum pariter et cleri procuratorum, convocationem isto anno apud Londonias semel et secundo, propter gravamina et oppressiones, de die in diem per summum pontificem et D. Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
• Well, I have to be around campus this weekend to participate in the honors convocation, so I get to wear my pretty little skirt, hood, and scholarly looking square cap for three whole hours on Saturday!
• The chancellor's official duty is to confer degrees upon graduands at convocation.
• The President's Office confirmed the award winner would be honored during the university's spring awards convocation, lending additional legitimacy to the award.
• The proceedings of the convocation of Canterbury were conducted in English quite often by the 1370s, and Henry IV spoke to Parliament in English in 1399 and had his words carefully recorded.