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:"Those men and women whose names the Registrary has today posted in the arcade beside the Senate-House and which the Vice-Chancellor has not deleted beg your reverences that they may proceed to the degree for which each has properly applied."
 
However, these students are referred to as '''graduands''' at Cambridge and most universities other than Oxford. There is certainly a need for such a word to describe qualified, embryonic graduates and it seems possible that U.S. sources provided or resurrected "graduand" into current usage. The current online edition of the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] lists graduand citing usage from 1882 and 1890 and etymological roots of the gerundive of the medieval Latin ''graduare'' "to graduate".
 
[[Category:Education-related terms]]