The New General Knowledge Thread

aodh_rua

Given that all changes on July 12 each year that would be my guess.

(Do I know AngryBanana? Not really trivia.....)

ApeXaviour

aodh_rua wrote:

(Do I know AngryBanana?

Not according to you anyhow

Nietzschean

lol trivia on the tcd board threads themselves?...
Can anyone name everyone who's been banned off here since its been created ?

xeduCat

What are students required to do when the Provost or a Fellow passes them?

Nietzschean

EduCat wrote:

What are students required to do when the Provost or a Fellow passes them?

I usually say hello if i know them.....

ApeXaviour

Darth Bobo wrote:

lol trivia on the tcd board threads themselves?...
Can anyone name everyone who's been banned off here since its been created ?

!West_Coast!
celingfan
curiousgeorge
joe.
jonny68
Kevin_rc_ie
lateasever
Mercury_Tilt
nicky2hig
rb_ie
Sangre
shuttle
uary (I banned him for an hour just for practice)

I'd just like to add that all but three of these were temp bannings

EduCat wrote:

What are students required to do when the Provost or a Fellow passes them?

Curtsy?

punka

EduCat wrote:

What are students required to do when the Provost or a Fellow passes them?

you're supposed to bow your head.
somebody's been reading the statutes..

John

How many students and staff are listed as having served in World War I?

I'll be back later to see who gets it closest.

xeduCat

punka wrote:

you're supposed to bow your head.
somebody's been reading the statutes..

Doff your cap. Chapter XVIII, s. 8.

Stargal

John2 wrote:

How many students and staff are listed as having served in World War I?

I'll be back later to see who gets it closest.

86?

There's a plaque somewhere...or else it says it in the Museum Building along with the pics of those who served.

John

Way off so far. Keep guessing

Time Magazine

aodh_rua wrote:

Given that all changes on July 12 each year that would be my guess.

(Do I know AngryBanana? Not really trivia.....)

Birthday being the day that it was born, March 3rd, 1592.

Of course that's trivia!

cuckoo

Myth wrote:

There's a plaque somewhere...or else it says it in the Museum Building along with the pics of those who served.

Isn't there something up in the lobby of the 1937 about it? We'll have to find a postgrad and send them in there for a look.

punka

EduCat wrote:

Doff your cap. Chapter XVIII, s. 8.

Do you have your own copy, EduCat?
Also, I think they got rid of that rule in the 1966 statutes. I only saw it in the 1844 statutes..

ApeXaviour

punka wrote:

Do you have your own copy, EduCat?
Also, I think they got rid of that rule in the 1966 statutes. I only saw it in the 1844 statutes..

Out of interest where can you find/read these statutes? They wouldn't happen to be conveniently on the web would they?

xeduCat

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~cmandal

(unofficial version)

Bear in mind, though, that some bits have been changed in that version (in particular the changes made to Board etc in 1999/2000 that are totally different from the old system).

I have multiple copies of different versions in my office. Few are of use - most day-to-day reference is to the Calendar, which while ranking lower than the statutes, deals with more mundane stuff and thus is more relevant to everyday life! I've also been on a working group that's been coming up with a replacement for the discipline bit of the statutes.

One of the versions in my office has amendments stapled or handwritten in, which is ever so quaint.

EduCat

EduCat wrote:

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~cmandal

.

ACADEMIC DRESS

7. The Provost, and every Fellow, Professor, other Academic Officer, Scholar, and other Student shall have a cap and gown, and shall wear them while performing their Academic duties.

8. The caps to be worn by Graduates and Undergraduates shall be black, and of the ordinary academical shape; the cap to be worn by Scholars and ex-Scholars shall be covered in velvet, and all other caps in fine cloth; and the caps of Graduates shall in all cases have a black silk tassel added in the usual manner.
Students shall salute the Provost and Fellows by doffing their caps.

9. The gowns to be worn by Undergraduates and by Bachelors shall be made of black stuff, and those worn by Masters and Doctors shall be made of black stuff or black silk, and the gowns for undergraduates, for Bachelors, and for Masters and Doctors, respectively, shall be made according to the patterns heretofore in use in the University; but, from and after their elec*tion, Scholars shall have the privilege of wearing a Bachelor's gown, whether they have graduated or not.

10. The hoods proper to the several Degrees conferred by the University shall be made of the materials described in, and ac*cording to the provisions of Chapter XXII of these Statutes.

11. (1) The Chancellor, when presiding at Public Commencements, or other meetings of the Senate, or when acting as head of the Senate on occasions which shall be deemed to be of academic importance, shall wear a cap of the usual pattern cov*ered in velvet, with a gold tassel; and his Robe shall be made of black corded silk, with two rows of bullion lace down the front and round the cope, the sleeves to be trimmed with gold lace.

(2) The Provost, or, in his absence, the Vice-Provost, when acting as a member of the Caput of the Senate, and on such other occasions as aforesaid, shall wear the cap and gown or robe, with the hood, which is proper to the highest Degree held by the Provost, or Vice-Provost, respectively; and the Senior Master Non-Regent, when so acting and on such occasions, shall wear the cap and gown with the hood of a Master in Arts.

(3) When in attendance at Public Commencements and at other meetings of the Senate the Proctors shall each wear the cap and gown of a Bachelor in Arts with a hood made of black silk lined with ermine.

(4) A Doctor in any Faculty when attending as a member at Public Commencements or at any other meeting of the Senate shall wear the cap of a Graduate and a robe made in the case of Doctors in Music of white flowered silk, and in all other cases made of scarlet cloth, faced in each case with the materials with which the hood proper to his Degree is lined; and shall, in addition to the cap and robe as aforesaid, wear the hood proper to his Degree.

(5) A Master in any Faculty when attending as a member as aforesaid, shall wear the cap and gown worn by a Master with the hood proper to his Master's Degree.

(6) The Candidates for admission to the several Degrees to be conferred at any Public Commencements shall, at such Commencements, wear the academic dress and hood hereinafter prescribed for the respective Degrees to which they are to be admitted at such Commencements; and, where two or more Degrees are to be conferred on the same Candidate, he shall wear the academic dress and hood which are so prescribed for the highest of the Degrees to be then conferred on him.

*Doctors and Bachelors in Music who are not Graduates in Arts rank next after Bachelors in Science

Hmmm, black caps for UGs, black cloaks for UGs...what a happy place this college must have looked all those years ago.

cuckoo

Myth wrote:

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Hmmm, black caps for UGs, black cloaks for UGs...what a happy place this college must have looked all those years ago.

Are there any photos/pictures lying around anywhere from back then? (hoping someone who's not busy with exams can go searching to amuse the rest of us!)

punka

Out of interest where can you find/read these statutes? They wouldn't happen to be conveniently on the web would they?

You can get them behind the counter in the Ussher. Be warned - all the cool stuff (like rules about not climbing the walls and not keeping animals in your rooms) is in the old ones, which are in Latin.

Are there any photos/pictures lying around anywhere from back then? (hoping someone who's not busy with exams can go searching to amuse the rest of us!)

You could always look at the photos on the Scholars' website and imagine they're in black and white..

aodh_rua

Angry Banana wrote:

Birthday being the day that it was born, March 3rd, 1592.

Of course that's trivia!

No I meant do I know who you are - and that the question of whether I do know you isn't trivia.

Time Magazine

aodh_rua wrote:

No I meant do I know who you are - and that the question of whether I do know you isn't trivia.

I don't believe so. I know you're a YFG'er but the only South Kildare folks I know are Stephen and the Geraghtys. At least that I can remember.

wayfarer

What controversy was liveline superstar and hero of the people, Joe Duffy, involved in while he was a student in Trinity?

cuckoo

Oh, oh - i know! Or, at least i'm guessing!

He was president of the students union, and led a year of occupations and confrontations with College. He went on to be Education Officer and then President of the Union of Students in Ireland (that USI crowd).

John

John2 wrote:

How many students and staff are listed as having served in World War I?

I'll be back later to see who gets it closest.

Considering only stargal gave a guess she wins but she was way off (the answer's 3042)

Stargal

*high fives self*

wayfarer

what? You mean clap?

John

you're getting the hang of that high five jazz

Now that's a high five.

Agent Smith

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