General Admission 2025 took place on Friday July 4th, with Selwyn students gathering in Old Court with their families and friends before the traditional procession to the Senate House to receive their degrees. The college warmly congratulates its new graduates.
In a speech to graduands at a dinner on the previous Wednesday evening, the master Roger Mosey quoted from a work by Peter Hall about the great cities in civilisation and what made them work. The reason for success, according to Hall, was that they were junction points: places that encouraged global interaction. “People meet, people talk, people listen to each other’s music and each other’s words, dance each other’s dances, take in each other’s thoughts. And so, by accidents of geography, sparks may be struck and something new come out of the encounter.”
Roger added: “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people said that about 21st century Cambridge and London and the UK? You can sometimes see the shape of something in modern Britain that makes you hope it might be possible, and it does depend on us all: that we open our minds, that we retain an intellectual curiosity; and we don’t stick our fingers in our ears in response to each other’s music or boycott a dance festival we don’t like. Instead we try to spread what we do here: based on excellence and knowledge; and wisdom and a concern for each other.”
A large selection of photographs by Howard Beaumont is available on the Selwyn Facebook and Instagram pages. www.facebook.com/Selwyn.College.Cambridge and www.instagram.com/Selwyn1882
