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as it did in the beautiful cathedral, in the presence of an 
assembly which included all the notables of Sweden, as well 
as guests from almost every European country, and even from 
America, and accompanied throughout by brilliant orchestral 
music, was not only very interesting, but extremely grand in 
its general effect, though it was lightened by what might 
almost be called a touch of the comic in certain details. Thus, 
as each Doctor was invested with the special hat denoting his 
faculty, or—in the case of a Doctor of Philosophy—with a 
laurel-wreath, he was saluted with the distant roar of an 
unseen cannon, some hundred or more of these explosions 
being heard before the ceremony was over. Again the music 
of the Marches, which were being played all the time—a 
different one commencing as the Doctors of each separate 
faculty came up for their ‘promotion ’—seemed to have been 
selected with a somewhat humorous allusion to the recipients 
of the honour. Thus the Theologians advanced to the strains 
of Mendelssohn’s ‘War March of the Priests,’ the lawyers to 
those of ‘See the Conquering Hero comes!’ A Dead March (!) 
was considered appropriate to the Doctors of Medicine; while 
the Wedding March from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 
was performed in honour of the Philosophers. 
“On the same evening all the guests and the new Doctors 
met at a great banquet presided over by the Prince-Regent, 
at which several other members of the Royal Family, the 
chief officials (past and present) of the University, repre- 
sentatives of the Swedish Government, and other eminent 
persons were also present. 
“ Besides these great functions, a number of minor festivities 
occurred on both days; in several of which a main feature, 
and a very agreeable one, was the beautiful singing of the- 
Upsala students. The hearty yet decorous manner in which 
these lads took their part in the celebrations, and helped to 
make them a success, was quite a surprise to many of the 
visitors from non-Teutonic countries, and must have produced 
a most favourable impression as to the Swedish student 
character upon every one who witnessed it. 
“The ceremony of Saturday at the Stockholm Academy of 
Sciences was conducted almost exactly as had been the open- 
