Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gentle descent on both sides of the house. His father's comfortable fortune enabled him to send his son to school at Winchester. He afterward took the Bachelor's Degree at Oxford and as the result of study at Montpelier, Padua, and Leyden received the degree of Doctor of Physic. After something like three years of practice in another place, Browne, in 1836, settled at Norwich which was to be his home almost uninterruptedly for the remainder of his life. In 1642, the year of the Battle of Edgehill, appeared what has always been known as a surreptious edition...
...before his death was the oldest living graduate of the University. He was born in Philadelphia on April 21, 1803, and entered the public Latin School in 1812. He graduated from the College in 1820 and from the Divinity School in 1823. In 1847 he received the degree of doctor of divinity from Harvard, and that of doctor of letters from Columbia at its centenial...
...those who wish to make use of the Yale gymnasium must have a doctor's certificate stating that they are physically sound...
...that while the Corporation, Overseers and Faculty are trying to secure a greater prominence to high scholarship in the University, the graduate students at Harvard in cooperation with those of other institutions are taking the initiative in an effort to give to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, for which many of them are working, a significance which lax requirements in some universities and the granting of one or both degrees honoris causa in all, have in some measure destroyed...
...influence at present there can be no doubt. The standard of work required here for the two degrees in question is unquestionably a high one. With the exception of the conferring of the honorary degree of A. M., which is always done with discretion, both the master's and doctor's degree are marks of high scholarly attainment...