Word: degreeless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale in 1723 set the style for the coming centuries by awarding the first honorary M.D. to a degreeless physician named Daniel Turner, who had given the college ?16 worth of books. (Wags quipped that the degree stood for Multum Donavit-"he gave much...
Riotous sabbaths at Cambridge University had brought his short undergraduate career to a degreeless close, but he promptly and incongruously enough prepared a learned Latin tract on proper observance of the Lord's day. And it was the fame of this which won him the headship of the young college...