The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. The chair was created in 1708 by an endowment from the estate of Henry Birkhead. The professorship carries an obligation to deliver an inaugural lecture; give one public lecture each term on a suitable literary subject; offer one additional event each term ; deliver the Creweian Oration at Encaenia every other year; each year, to be one of the judges for the Newdigate Prize, the Jon Stallworthy Prize, the Lord Alfred Douglas Prize and the Chancellor's English Essay Prize; every third year, to help judge the English poem on a sacred subject prize; and generally to encourage the art of poetry in the University.
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A convocation is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose, mostly ecclesiastical or academic. The Britanica dictionary defines it as "a large formal meeting of people.
Student receiving academic degree from Azim Premji during convocation. Adi Godrej in background.
A cadet of the Royal Military College of Canada plays bagpipes in Currie Hall during the College's fall Convocation.
Line of young people at a commencement ceremony
Student receives diploma from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City
