tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4749007000924035033..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Hand-shaking in OxfordFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-83820032538569588042020-03-12T19:31:39.980+00:002020-03-12T19:31:39.980+00:00
Is it not also a convention that barristers do no...<br />Is it not also a convention that barristers do not shake hands?vetusta ecclesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454059029260192711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-8546987092233443312020-03-11T17:22:16.527+00:002020-03-11T17:22:16.527+00:00I recall a distinguished professor of German compl...I recall a distinguished professor of German complaining that when he was elected to a fellowship at an Oxford college in the early 1960s he was introduced to a rather punctilious mediaevalist and, on proffering his hand, he was told "We don't shake hands in Oxford". <br />The reason generally given (as with the even odder and surely now disused Cambridge custom of not greeting Oliver Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187098939500953848noreply@blogger.com