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Why do students at Oxford University wear carnations to exams?

April 26, 2017carnations exams Oxford students wear

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Why do students at Oxford University wear carnations to exams?

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Explanations of these Oxford and Cambridge traditions are generally recondite. Incidentally, Oxford students recently voted, by quite a large majority, to retain the traditional requirement to wear sub fusc for exams. Cambridge got rid of gowns in exams a while ago.