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    24 May 1988

    Graduation Booklet

    by Hugh McGuinness

    Graduation Booklet

    Scan of graduation booklet for Faculty of Science 1988

    The University of Sydney

    Ceremony of CONFERRING OF DEGREES

    The Great Hall
    Wednesday 25 May 1988 at 9.30 am
    The Chancellor, Sir Hermann Black, A.C., presiding

    Great Hall
    The Great Hall, including two statues representing the young people of the University. The statues high in their niches, were commissioned by Lloyd Rees and sculpted by Tom Bass. They were unveiled in November 1984.

    Order of proceedings

    Organ recital
    by
    the University Organist, Mr Norman Johnston

    The academic procession enters the Great Hall,
    the assembly standing.
    Processional: Fanfare '77 (Platt)

    The proceedings are opened by the Chancellor,
    Sir Hermann Black, A.C.

    Conferring of degrees

    The Chancellor welcomes the graduates and visitors.

    The occasional address delivered by
    Professor R D Guthrie
    Vice-Chancellor, University of Technology, Sydney

    The academic procession retires, the assembly standing.
    Organ Music: 1st Movement from Concerto in F major (Handel).

    Carillon recital
    by
    the University Carillonist, Mr John Gordon

    The Mace

    The Mace, symbol of the authority of the Senate, is wrought silver with a shaft of polished hardwood. Emblazoned in gold on the head are the Roval Coat of Arms, the arms of the Colony of New South Wales and those of the University, with decorative motifs employing the rose, the thistle and shamrock filling the intervening spaces.

    The surmounting feature is a Royal Crown, below which is the motto DOCTRINA PARET VIRTUTEM. The Mace was acquired in the name and on behalf of Queen Victoria through the Governor of New South Wales. Sir Charles Fitz Roy, in 1834.

    On official occasions it is carried in procession before the Chancellor by the Esquire Bedell.

    The Lady Hailsham Staff

    The Lady Hailsham Staff, presented to the University in February 1982 by the Sir Robert Menzies Oration Committee, is a memorial to Lady Hailsham, who died tragically in a horse riding accident in Sydney two days before her husband, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, delivered the Inaugural Oration in the Great Hall of the University in May 1978.

    The staff was designed by Mr D Connelly MP and crafted by V. Hemmingsen of Adelaide and P. Noakes of Sydney It is surmounted by a Viscountess' coronet (a mark of Lady Hailsham's rank) on top of a thistle of silver and a ball of Connemara marble. All metals used are of gold and silver. The coronet is studed with sapphires from Sri Lanka, where Lady Hailsham spent part of her childhood.

    The Connemara marble was donated by Lord Mayo and is from the county in Ireland whence lady Hailsham's family originated. The thistle symbolises the association with Sir Robert Menzies. The staff is made of Tasmanian blackwood with tip and joins in silver.

    It is carried in procession by the Yeoman Bedell.

    Conferring of degrees

    Candidates will be admitted to degrees by the Chancellor. Sir Herman Black, A.C.

    Faculty of Science

    DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCE (HONORIS CAUSA)

    presented by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor I M Ward, A.O.

    DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

    presented by the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Science, Dr Damon Ridley

    DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

    presented by the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Science, Dr Damon Ridley

    DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE

    presented by the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Science, Dr Damon Ridley

    DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

    presented by the Acting Dean of the faculty of Science, Dr Damon Ridley

    Honours

    Class I and University Medal

    Class I

    Class II, Division 1

    Class II, Division 2

    Class III

    Pass

    The Great Hall

    The Great Hall was designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817-1883). In 1849 Blacket was appointed Colonial Architect of New South Wales, but in 1854 he resigned and returned to private practice to design and supervise new buildings for the University of Sydney. Although he designed many buildings during his career (including St Paul’s College and St Andrew’s Cathedral), the Great Hall, in the style of the Victorian Gothic revival, represents one of his most spectacular achievements. It was first used for the conferring of degrees on 18 July 1859.

    The Hall measures 41 metres (135 feet) in length and 14 metres (45 feet) in breadth. The side walls are nearly 14 metres (45 feet) in height and the apex of the open timbered roof is 22 metres (70 feet) from the floor. The walls are local standstone, except that on the Oriel window in the south side there are armorial bearings carved in Caen stone. The same stone has been used for the Tudor fireplace and carved doorway into the Ante Room. The floor of the hall is of Australian marble. The frame of the roof is made of Australian hardwood faced with cedar, while all of the great beams and carvings are of cedar from the northern rivers area of New South Wales.

    The Hall is clearly modelled, although on a smaller scale, on Westminster Hall, the oldest and largest part of the Palace of Westminster in London. This is one of the most important English medieval buildings still extant, having been reconstructed by Richard II between 1394 and 1399 from the building first constructed by William II in the eleventh century. Points of similarity are the ground plan and the hammerbeam roof decorated with the carved wooden figures of angels. Those to the left and right above the dais bear scrolls inscribed Scientia inflat, Charitas aedificat (1 Cor. 8.1) and Timor Domini, Principium Sapientiae (Prov. 9.10). The other ten figures carry books inscribed with symbols referring to the arts and sciences over which they preside. Grammar has a papyrus roll, dialectic has Aristotle’s diagram of the three syllogistic figures, poetry has a harp, ethics has St Mary’s lily, metaphysics has a symbol of the deity, arithmetic has an abacus, geometry has the forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid, astronomy has a star, music is credited with the design and painting of the roof decorations.

    The stained glass windows consist of the Royal window in the northern wall (containing a fine portrait of the young Queen Victoria), and the Oxford and Cambridge windows of the west and east respectively, portraying the founders of the colleges of those universities. The side windows contain portraits of people famous in English literature, history and science.

    Below the Oxford window is the eighteenth century Gobelin tapestry representing Joseph and his brethren. The tapestry was a gift to the University by Sir Charles Nicholson, Bt (1808-1903), a former Chancellor.

    A pipe organ, built by Forster and Andrews of Hull, was installed in the Great Hall during 1881-1882. It was replaced in 1971-72 by the present organ which was designed by Rudolf von Beckerath of Hamburg and constructed and installed jointly by von Beckerath and Mr R.W. Sharp of Sydney.

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