Pomp and Circumstance in Cambridge

A Big, Fat Congratulations is in order for Rob graduating with top marks from the University of Cambridge with an LL.M., or Masters of Law.

Graduation morning started with pictures at Queens' College in their full get-ups.  (Again, I felt like I had stepped into Hogwarts!) 

Then, Rob and the rest of the graduates processed through Cambridge (with the college porters, dressed to the nines, stopping traffic) on their way to the Senate House where the ceremony took place. 

 I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside, but the ceremony involved Rob and 3 classmates holding on to the fingers of the praelector who presents them to the Vice-Chancellor in Latin, saying "Most worthy Vice-Chancellor and the whole University, I present to you this man whom I know to be suitable as much by character as by learning to proceed to the degree of Master of Law; for which I pledge my faith to you and to the whole University.”

Then Rob had to kneel before the Vice-Chancellor, put his hands between the Vice-Chancellor's, who then says (in Latin), "by the authority committed to me I admit you to the degree of Master of Law in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."  

Tom, Steve, Rob, Prof. Fentiman, Jane, Yueying, Barbara, Sarah, Konni, Jeff

Just one more graduation to go....Way to go Rob!