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2 "id": "https://mort.io/blog/coping-and-capping/",
3 "title": "Coping and Capping",
4 "link": "https://mort.io/blog/coping-and-capping/",
5 "updated": "2025-04-08T00:00:00",
6 "published": "2025-04-08T00:00:00",
7 "summary": "<p>Well that was fun! Quite high up there in the set of things that I never even\nconsidered I might do would’ve been awarding degrees. But by dint of being\nPresident and thus standing in for\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_McDonald%2C_Baron_McDonald_of_Salford\">Simon</a>,\non Saturday I did exactly that.</p>\n <img alt=\"Me, coped and capped in the superman cape and mortarboard\" height=\"1\" src=\"https://mort.io/blog/coping-and-capping/coped.jpg\" width=\"360\">\n<p>The University held a Congregation for those being admitted to the <a href=\"https://www.cambridgestudents.cam.ac.uk/your-course/graduation-and-what-next/cambridge-ma\">Cambridge\nMA</a>\n(“Magistri in Artibus” – Master of Arts). Degrees are conferred by the\nChancellor, Vice-Chancellor or nominated deputy. Apparently, typically, for this\none and the main undergraduate congregation in July, that nominated deputy\nVice-Chancellor is usually the Head of House for the College concerned. In this\ncase, as President at Christ’s is effectively deputy Master (~ Head of House),\nit me.</p>\n<p>So instead of the usual Batman-style black gown, I got to wear the rather natty\nSuperman-style <em>cope</em>, hence I was <em>coped</em>. I also got to wear one of the fancy\nhats (“square cap” or mortarboard) for the first time, hence I was also\n<em>capped</em>.</p>\n<p>And as many other officers were also appropriately hatted, and out of respect\nto the role would <em>cap</em> me at many available opportunities, the written advice I\nreceived was literally that “officers will cap you – you do not have to cap\nback” because the cope makes it difficult to do so.</p>\n<p>So, in brief, it seems I coped with being coped and capped but could not cope\nwith capping while coped. To add to the excitement, I also had to Do Some Latin.\nThankfully it’s a dead language so I assume all it could do was turn in its\ngrave while I butchered it.</p>\n<p>I hope everyone had a good time anyway!</p>",
8 "content": "<p>Well that was fun! Quite high up there in the set of things that I never even\nconsidered I might do would’ve been awarding degrees. But by dint of being\nPresident and thus standing in for\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_McDonald%2C_Baron_McDonald_of_Salford\">Simon</a>,\non Saturday I did exactly that.</p>\n <img alt=\"Me, coped and capped in the superman cape and mortarboard\" height=\"1\" src=\"https://mort.io/blog/coping-and-capping/coped.jpg\" width=\"360\">\n<p>The University held a Congregation for those being admitted to the <a href=\"https://www.cambridgestudents.cam.ac.uk/your-course/graduation-and-what-next/cambridge-ma\">Cambridge\nMA</a>\n(“Magistri in Artibus” – Master of Arts). Degrees are conferred by the\nChancellor, Vice-Chancellor or nominated deputy. Apparently, typically, for this\none and the main undergraduate congregation in July, that nominated deputy\nVice-Chancellor is usually the Head of House for the College concerned. In this\ncase, as President at Christ’s is effectively deputy Master (~ Head of House),\nit me.</p>\n<p>So instead of the usual Batman-style black gown, I got to wear the rather natty\nSuperman-style <em>cope</em>, hence I was <em>coped</em>. I also got to wear one of the fancy\nhats (“square cap” or mortarboard) for the first time, hence I was also\n<em>capped</em>.</p>\n<p>And as many other officers were also appropriately hatted, and out of respect\nto the role would <em>cap</em> me at many available opportunities, the written advice I\nreceived was literally that “officers will cap you – you do not have to cap\nback” because the cope makes it difficult to do so.</p>\n<p>So, in brief, it seems I coped with being coped and capped but could not cope\nwith capping while coped. To add to the excitement, I also had to Do Some Latin.\nThankfully it’s a dead language so I assume all it could do was turn in its\ngrave while I butchered it.</p>\n<p>I hope everyone had a good time anyway!</p>",
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