John Victor Luce, in the Trinity College of Dublin, welcomes the candidates for the Honoris Causa doctorate in a latin laudatio. This article analizes if these laudationes conform to the classical theory for genus demonstratiuum, in each one of theirparts. It also excels how Lucefinds asolution to express the present concepts, in spite of the sermonis latini egestas, using greek neologisms orperiphrasis
