Word: docents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Clark university is the first institution in this country to establish the title of docent, which is its highest annual appointment. It is primarily intended as an honor to be awarded to those worthy of more prominent and lucrative positions as professors or assistant professors in colleges. It may be bestowed without examination upon a few men who have advanced beyond the requirements of a doctorate and who satisfy the requirements of the university by a thesis a public address, or in any other way, of both their scientific attainments and their teaching abilities, and, if necessary, may be accompanied...
Loeb '86 has been appointed Docent in the chemical department at Clark University...
Anent the recent announcement that students of Harvard University could now become candidates for honors in Political Science, we wish to call attention to the "Privat-Docent" system that has just been established at that energetic institution, Columbia College: "The 'Privat-Docent' system is one established at the German universities, which enables graduates of these institutions, who may have distinguished themselves in any branch, to deliver lectures in that branch at one of the universities. To this system, it is generally admitted, the preeminent rank of German universities, and the high development of German intellectual life is largely...