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Several catch Commemoration Day, the annual procession that began as an impromptu student concert in 1888 and grew, after a stand-off with the university authorities in 1897, into a march of witty and political floats down George Street; it ran until 1975. One frame instead catches a women's hockey match on the lawn in 1929, sticks lowered mid-contest — proof the Quadrangle wasn't only ever a backdrop for gowns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook for the different hoods and stoles marking a different degree in almost every figure of the procession, and the paling fence that, in 1929, still kept the hockey pitch in.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"academic-procession-sydney-university-1936","title":"Academic procession at the University of Sydney Quadrangle","description":"\u003cp\u003eA column of people in academic gowns and mortarboards walks beside the Gothic Revival sandstone walls of the University of Sydney's Main Quadrangle, with its pointed-arch doorway and traceried windows behind. A robed figure carrying a staff leads the procession ahead of the others. 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