Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Next comes--oh, yes; oh, yes--a Christmas story. After two pages, in which the old millionaire bachelor demonstrates in many successive speeches that he does not appreciate Christmas, he leaves the club and starts for home in his "perfectly appointed car." Presently he learns from his chauffeur that they have knocked down a child--"a wisp of a girl, poorly clad, whose pinched face spoke the lack of food." From this point on the old millionaire buys Christmas presents until along toward the end, when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from...
...Bachelor of Arts, 303; Bachelors of Philosophy, 221; Bachelors of the Fine Arts, 6; Bachelors of Music, 6; Bachelor's of Laws, 37; Bachelor of Civil Law, 1; Bachelors of Divinity, 28; Masters of Arts, 18; Masters of Science, 9; Mechanical Engineers, 6; Engineers of Mines, 4; Metallurgical Engineer, 1; Masters of Forestry, 15; Doctor of Civil Law, 1; Doctors of Medicine, 10; Doctors of Philosophy, 37; total...
...will begin this afternoon and continue every afternoon this week. Men who have already signed up for the tests will be notified when and where to present themselves for the examination. The tests are held under the provisions of admittance into the College, which require every candidate for a bachelor's degree to pass, by the end of his second year, a special oral examination to test his reading knowledge of either French or German...
Many men graduate from Princeton when they are over 28 years of age, and five men have received bachelor degrees from the university during the last 14 years when past 30 years of age. The oldest man graduated with the Class of 1916 at the age of 35 years. Dartmouth has record of one graduate who received his degree at the age of 39, while Cornell's oldest graduate for many years was 36 years old. --Daily Princetonian
...word. Yet Napoleon upturned the world because he wanted to be named Emperor rather than Consul. And many Americans of distinct scholarly ability have gone through other and less congenial training because the sound of a Philosophical Doctor was sweeter to their ears than a mere Literary Bachelor...