Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
CHAPTER II
p. 186
MATRICULATION, RESIDENCE, ADMISSION TO DEGREES, DISCIPLINE

SERMONS AND COMMEMORATIONS

1. The service for the Commemoration of Benefactors33 shall be held each year on the first Sunday in November, except in any year in which this day is appointed as Remembrance Sunday when the Service shall be held on either the preceding or the following Sunday as determined by the Select Preachers Syndicate.

2. It shall be the duty of the Lady Margaret's Preacher to preach at the service.

3. The annual Ramsden Sermon, founded by Mrs Ramsden through J. H. Markland, Esq., is to be delivered on such Sunday of Full Term and by such preacher as the Vice-Chancellor for the time being shall appoint, upon the subject of Church Extension overseas, especially within the Commonwealth of Nations.

4. The sermon at Mere's Commemoration34 shall be preached on the first Tuesday in Full Easter Term.

5. The arrangement of the seats in the University Church at all University services shall be entrusted to the Vice-Chancellor.

Footnotes

  1. 33. The Form of Service for the Commemoration of Benefactors is published by the University Press. Copies are available in Great St Mary's Church on the day of the Commemoration.a
  2. 34. See Endowments, 1904, pp. 19, 20. This sermon is preached either by the Vice-Chancellor or by a preacher nominated by the Vice-Chancellor.a