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No 6197

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Vol cxli No 1

pp. 1-48

Graces, etc.

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 6 October 2010

The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 15 October 2010.

1. That the Table of Fees attached to the regulations for University Composition Fees be amended as follows:1

Table 1

B.A. Degree

Group 4 (Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering)

By replacing the figure of £14,715 for overseas students in 2010–11 by the figure of £14,073 in each case.

M.Phil. Degree

Group 4 (Finance)

By replacing the figure of £8,553 for Home/EU/Channel Isles/Isle of Man students in 2010–11 by the figure of £7,610.

2. That, in the election to the Committee of Management of the University Combination Room to be held in November 2010, the first two persons elected serve for four years from 1 January 2011 and the second two persons serve for two years from that date.2

3. That a D. H. Green Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:3

D. H. Green Fund

1. The sum bequeathed to the University by Mrs Margaret Green in memory of her husband Professor Dennis Howard Green, sometime Schröder Professor of German and Fellow of Trinity College, together with other funds received for the same purpose, shall form a fund called the D. H. Green Fund, the income of which shall be used, subject to the provisions of Regulation 5, for the encouragement of medieval German studies, which for the purpose of these regulations shall be understood to mean the study of medieval German literature and the history of the German language in the medieval period.

2. The Fund shall be administered by a Board of Managers consisting of:

(a)the Schröder Professor of German;

(b)the holders of any other Professorships in German established in the Department of German and Dutch;

(c)three persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages in the Michaelmas Term to serve for three years from 1 January following their appointment, provided that the Faculty Board shall, as far as possible, appoint persons whose field of study falls within the field of medieval German studies.

3. The first charge on the income of the Fund shall be the provision of a Prize which shall be awarded annually by the Examiners for Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos for an outstanding year abroad project or dissertation on a subject in medieval German language or literature submitted under Regulation 27(b) or (c) for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos. The value of the Prize shall be determined by the Managers, within a range approved from time to time by the Council.

4. After the provision of the Prize, or if the Prize is not awarded, the remaining income of the Fund shall be available for use by the Managers, at their discretion, for one or more of the following purposes, as listed:

(a)To provide a Studentship which may be awarded each year and which shall be open to any person who is or is about to be registered as a candidate for the Ph.D. Degree in the University. The Managers shall be the Electors to the Studentship; in making the award they shall take account of candidates’ financial support from other sources. The value of the Studentship shall be determined by the Managers, within a range approved from time to time by the Council. It shall be the duty of the Student to undertake advanced study or research in medieval German studies. The Studentship shall be tenable for one year; a Student shall be eligible for re-election, provided that no one shall hold the Studentship for more than three years in total.

(b)To provide an annual D. H. Green Lecture in medieval German Studies. Not later than the end of the Easter Term preceding the academical year in which a lecture is to be given, the Managers shall appoint a Lecturer who shall deliver in the University one lecture on a subject in medieval German studies, and shall, if possible, give one seminar in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages on a similar subject. The stipend of the Lecturer shall be such sum as shall be determined by the Managers. In addition, the Managers may at their discretion pay any expenses of the Lecturer and any other expenses incurred in the holding of the Lecture.

(c)To purchase books in the field of medieval German studies for the Beit German Library or the German section of the Students’ Library of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, or for both these libraries.

(d)To make grants towards the cost of publication of works by members of the University in the field of medieval German studies.

(e)To assist in any other way the promotion and encouragement of medieval German studies in the University.

5. At the discretion of the Managers, any unexpended income may be either accumulated in the Fund for use in future years or used for the promotion and encouragement of German studies at large in the University.

6. These regulations, other than Regulations 1 and 5 and this regulation, shall be subject to alteration by Grace.

4. That the dates of Full Term and of General Admission to Degrees for the period 2020–21 to 2029–30 be as follows:4

Year

Full Mich. Term

Full Lent Term

Easter Day

Full Easter Term

General Admission June Thu./Fri./Sat.

begins

Oct.

Tu.

ends

Dec.

Fri.

begins Jan.

Tu.

Ends March Fri.

begins

Apr.

Tu.

ends

June

Fri.

2020–21

6

4

19

19

4 Apr.

27

18

1/2/3 July

2021–22

5

3

18

18

17 Apr.

26

17

30/1/2 July

2022–23

4

2

17

17

9 Apr.

25

16

29/30/1 July

2023–24

3

1

16

15

31 Mar.

23

14

27/28/29

2024–25

8

6

21

21

20 Apr.

29

20

3/4/5 July

2025–26

7

5

20

20

5 Apr.

28

19

2/3/4 July

2026–27

6

4

19

19

28 Mar.

27

18

1/2/3 July

2027–28

5

3

18

17

16 Apr.

25

16

29/30/1 July

2028–29

3

1

16

16

1 Apr.

24

15

28/29/30

2029–30

2

30 Nov.

15

15

21 Apr.

23

14

27/28/29

5. That Professor Colin Martyn Lizieri, PEM, Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance be appointed a member of the Finance Committee in class (e) to serve until 31 December 2011.5

Footnotes

  • 1Statutes and Ordinances, p. 161. It is regretted that the Fee published for the undergraduate courses in Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Engineering in the Reporter of 12 May 2010 (p. 818) was incorrect. The Fee for the course in Finance leading to the M.Phil. Degree in 2010–11 has been amended on the advice of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Business and Management.


  • 2See the Vice-Chancellor’s Notice on p. 4.


  • 3See the Vice-Chancellor’s Notice on p. 2.


  • 4Statutes and Ordinances, p. 181. See the Council’s Notice on p. 4.


  • 5This appointment is to fill an existing vacancy on the Committee.


Address by the Vice-Chancellor Emerita to the University

1 October 2010

Having retired from the office of Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Alison Richard delivered the following address to the University:

Preface

As was my custom as Vice-Chancellor, I begin by celebrating the contributions of those who have finished terms of service to collegiate Cambridge over the past year. I am particularly grateful for the wise counsel and commitment of Dr Gordon Johnson who retires as President of Wolfson College and as Deputy Vice-Chancellor; and to the Pro-Vice-Chancellors who completed their terms of office last year: Professor Andy Cliff, Professor Ian Leslie, and Dr Kate Pretty. We thank them, and wish them and their successors well.

With sadness and respect, we commemorate three members of staff who have died in the service of the University during the course of the year. Their loss will be keenly felt, even as their memory will endure.

Mrs Marion Clarkstone

Mr Adrian Hayes

Mrs Karen McCarthy

1 October 2010: final remarks

In my annual addresses to the University as Vice-Chancellor I talked about issues I considered to be of importance to Cambridge’s future. The temptation, of course, today is to reflect, to look back. However, the invitation to deliver the Gomes Lecture at Emmanuel College in February1 has already given me that opportunity, and I see no purpose to repeating here what I said then. So what is there left for the Vice-Chancellor Emerita to say? Well, I want to thank you, welcome the new Vice-Chancellor, and offer one observation. I begin with the last.

At the end of my inaugural address seven years ago, I talked about trust. I cited John Dunn: ‘There is, to be sure, an alternative to trust: a consistent and strategically energetic distrust. But…this is apt rapidly to paralyse all capacity for cooperative agency’.2 His point strikes me as powerfully now as it did in 2003. I told you then that I would do my best to earn your trust, and I also asked you to give me your trust. Here is my observation.

For the most part, in my experience, you did give me your trust, for which I am deeply grateful, and you gave it as well to the individuals and the bodies at the centre with whom I have worked closely during the years. At the same time, you have kept a watchful and critical eye on our competence to execute or orchestrate the business of the University and you have served notice when you find us wanting.

From time to time, though, those related but distinct ideas of trust and competence are confused. I have seen this happen, and have myself been guilty of the confusion. To have one’s integrity questioned when one is simply doing one’s best is disagreeable; conversely, it is exasperating when a question about competence is construed by those criticized as an attack on their integrity.

With this experience in mind, I would state matters differently were I giving my inaugural remarks today. Rather than committing to earning your trust, I would tell you that I expected you, who elected me, to trust me and that I would trust you. And I would tell you that I would do my best to act with enough competence to win your confidence – and to hear about it clearly if I fell short. I now realize that you all understood this rather better than I did, and I thank you.

It has been a very great privilege to serve this collegiate University. You have made it interesting without end, filled with good fellowship and, from time to time, fun. For all this, again, I thank you. Between us, we have rolled a few boulders higher up the mountain. But there are always steeper slopes to scale and more boulders to roll, and it is on that note I turn, last, to welcome the new Vice-Chancellor. He can expect your trust, and I know you will give it. I depart confident and happy that Cambridge has a splendid Vice-Chancellor – who, at the end of his tenure, will surely leave as deeply committed as I shall always be to this remarkable institution.

Thank you.

Footnotes

  • 1A Vice-Chancellor Reflects, the 12th Gomes Lecture, given at Emmanuel College on 12 February 2010.


  • 2Dunn, John, 1990. p. 38 in Interpreting Political Responsibility. Cambridge: Polity Press. Quoted in ‘Values, Leadership, and Change’, 1 October 2003 (Reporter, 2003–04, p. 40, http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2003-04/weekly/5935/19.html).