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==Traditions== ===Formal Hall=== [[File:Dining Hall, Selwyn College, Cambridge.jpg|thumb|left|The Dining Hall, with the tables laid for Formal Hall]] Selwyn holds [[Formal Hall]] on every Tuesday and Thursday evening during Term at 7:30 pm with a capacity of 120, tickets for which can be bought by students for themselves and up to two guests. An additional Formal Hall was held on Sunday evenings at least until the early 1990s.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.societies.cam.ac.uk/cuhags/talks/graces/|title=The Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society|website=societies.cam.ac.uk|access-date=2017-08-26}}</ref> There is also a special, extra Halfway Hall Formal for second-year students to mark the middle of their time as undergraduate students at the college, and a Christmas Formal for all students at the end of every Michaelmas Term. Selwyn holds several JCR Dinners and MCR Dinners specifically for undergraduate and graduate students each term. Formal Halls are for students, Fellows and the Master of the college; however, members of other Oxbridge colleges may attend, as well as a limited number of guests from outside the university. Formal hall meals are three- or four-course meals which are fully catered and served by college staff. During formal hall, the fellows and the master of the college sit at the [[High Table]] near the front of the hall, while students sit on benches or chairs at the long tables. ====Latin Grace==== The college [[Grace (prayer)|Grace]] is recited in Latin by a Fellow or Scholar (a student who achieved a First Class mark overall in the previous year) at the beginning of Formal Hall, and is as follows: <blockquote>''Benedic, Domine, nobis et donis Tuis, quae de Tua largitate sumus sumpturi; et concede ut iis muneribus Tuis ad laudem Tuam utamur, gratisque animis fruamur, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.''</blockquote> Translation: <blockquote>Bless us, O Lord, and all thy gifts, which of thy goodness we are about to enjoy; grant that we may use these generosities to thy glory, and enjoy them with thankful hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.</blockquote> When the High Table rises, the following concluding Grace is said ''Benedicamus Domino'' (Let us bless the Lord), with the response being ''Laus Deo'' (Praise be to God). This response was changed in the 1990s, from the previous response ''Deo gratias'' (Thanks be to God).<ref name="autogenerated1"/> ====Loyal toast==== Selwyn has a tradition in which senior fellows and members of the college commonly remain seated for the college's [[loyal toast]] during formal hall. This tradition is not observed out of disrespect or irreverence for the sovereign, but rather, out of courtesy and remembrance of the former Master of the college, [[John Selwyn (bishop)|John Selwyn]], who could not easily stand for the loyal toast owing to the limited use of his legs in later life. John Selwyn (son of George Augustus Selwyn) served as the second Master of Selwyn College (1893β1898).<ref name="Short History"/> ===Lecture series=== Selwyn College hosts an annual lecture named in honour of Ramsay Murray, an alumnus of the college during the 1930s. The Ramsay Murray Lecture Series was established in 1994 following a significant bequest from the Murray estate.<ref name="cam.ac.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/ramsay-murray-lecture-2009|title=Ramsay Murray Lecture 2009|date=1 May 2009|website=University of Cambridge}}</ref> Lecturers have included many high-profile politicians, academics, and journalists including [[Onora OβNeill]], [[Niall Ferguson]], [[Michael Howard]], [[Ian Kershaw]], [[Roy Porter]], [[Ian Clark (political scientist)|Ian Clark]], Lawrence Freedman, David Cannadine, [[Keith Thomas (historian)|Keith Thomas]], Jonathan Riley-Smith and [[Quentin Skinner]], former Regius Professor of Modern History.<ref name="cam.ac.uk"/> The 2018 Ramsay Murray lecture features the journalist [[Frank Gardner (journalist)|Frank Gardner]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.selwynalumni.com/main-website-pages/ramsay-murray-lecture|title=Ramsay Murray Lecture β Selwyn College|website=www.selwynalumni.com}}</ref> The lectures are free and open to the public.
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