Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...degree, bachelor of music, has been instituted at Vassar...
...estate of E. Price Greenleaf, the millionaire miser and bachelor, who lived for a number of years at 70 Waltham street in this city, proves to be a large donation to Harvard College, all of his property, with the exception of a few thousands, going to this institution. Nathaniel J. Bradlee, W. G. A. Pattee and William McMahon, the appraisers of the estate, have returned into Suffolk County probate their inventory. While it does not reach $1,000,000, the official appraisal makes it a large estate, which eventually, in the rise of stocks, may reach the million limit. Many...
...Apropos of your editorial remark upon Prof. Palmer's answer to his critics in regard to what he calls a "petty difficulty," I may perhaps be allowed to say, in my own and others' behalf, that it is a very poor answer to those who claim that the Bachelor's degree ought not to be disturbed in the possession of its ancient privileges. If it is a matter of small consequence, the innovators will act wisely by leaving the conservatives in possession of the old and betaking themselves to the new; the latter do not think it a matter...
...granting that the A. B. of twenty years ago was indefinite, does anybody claim that the new system makes the case any better? Nobody is likely to do that. Or will some of our colleges say in substance to the father, Twenty-five years ago we made you a Bachelor of Arts for work that was somewhat indefinite, but we expect to make the case clearer to the public by giving the same degree to your son for work of an entirely different character? If the old degree is so indefinite and meaningless, it is strange that...
Every collegiate degree given twenty-five years ago claimed to represent a certain amount of knowledge, and indicated roughly the chief sources of that knowledge. The Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Philosophy had studied little or no Greek, more rarely no Latin. In no case did the degree claim to represent even a minimum of culture. In this sense all degrees were and always will be more or less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then...