Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from Mrs. Susan D. Brown to be used in the erection of a new college dormitory; of $25,000 from Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York for the foundation of a new professorship; of $5,000 from an unknown friend for the scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally of spirit as regards athletics between the Harvard and Princeton trustees...
...last Commencement the board of overseers of Harvard University voted to concur with the President and Fellows in conferring honorary degrees as follows: Degree of doctor of laws, Charles Stebbins Fairchild, Joseph Hodges Choate, Walcott Gibbs. Degree of doctor of divinity, Abiel Abbott Livermore. Degree of master of arts, Edward Burgess, William Endicott, Jr., John White Chadwick...
...Saturday the University of Cambridge conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon Prince Albert Victor, Lords Salisbury, Roseberry and Randolph Churchill, Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for England...
...were graduated at Columbia College yesterday. For the first time in the history of the college the degree of bachelor of arts was conferred upon a woman, Miss Alice Louise Pond, the twenty-year-old daughter of one of the editor of the Sun. The honorary degree of doctor of letters was conferred on Charles Eliot Norton...
...University of Zurich has conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon a Philadelphian woman...