Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commencement exercises of the Yale Divinity School were held Wednesday morning in Battel Chapel, when the twenty-nine members of the graduating class received the degree of bachelor of divinity from the hands of President Dwight. The young theologians will enter immediately upon their life work, as their fields of usefulness have already been selected. Two of the members will become foreign missionaries, one going to China and the other to India. About a third of the class will go West and enter the home mission field. About thirty-five graduates and seniors will start next week for the West...
...customary for some of the overseers to visit the school whilst the students were thus doing "what were called sitting of solstices," these weeks were called the "weeks of visitation." Those who failed to pass the examinations were "deferred to the following year." The degree of bachelor of arts was conferred upon all who had successfully completed the four years course of study, and the degree of master of arts upon graduates of three year's standing. The examination for degrees were frequent and severe, especially just before commencement. Good conduct as well as scholarship was essential in order...
...minor university is worse than a minor poet. I happened lately to glance over the catalogue of a "university" of about 400 students, which "university" consists simply of a school of general literature and a school of technology. Yet this institution grants eight kinds of degrees at graduation: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, civil engineer, mechanical engineer, bachelor of science in mining and metallurgy, engineer of mines and metallurgist, electrical engineer and analytical chemist, besides higher degrees of M. A., M. S. and Ph. D. In presence of such a collection of high-sounding names, a modest Harvard...
...other hand it seems perfectly just and natural that the college graduate should receive the degree of A. M. after pursuing a little further the studies which have occupied him during his college course. We all hope to receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts some day, and it is but a natural step from that to the degree of Master of Arts. There is no incongruity in it either...
...nature of plants in the summer, students would further improve these fields of study during the remainder of the afternoon. Ability to translate passage of the Bible from the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic into Latin, and to expound biblical texts, were the main requisites for the Bachelor's degree. A scholastic digest of logic, ethics, physics, mathematics, etc., with ability to defend theses, superceded to the above-mentioned biblical training and approved piety secured to the candidates the degree of Master of Arts...