Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be one of the principal features of the performance. The first ballet will consist of policemen, musicians, and a policinell in fantastic costumes. The second ballet will be a dance of four Moorish men and women. The play will end with a ceremony of conferring the degree of doctor, consisting of 8 surgeons, 8 apothecaries, the president of the medical faculty, and other persons. For this ceremony at least twenty-five men are required, and all men who wish to take part in it are urged to send their names by Saturday to J. P. Hayden, 8 Holyoke House...
...Doctor Wanless, a medical missionary from India, is expected to be in 33 Weld, today, at 2.30. He will talk informally of medical missions, and of the work that has been done in India. All interested are cordially invited to be present...
Beside the two ballets there is to be the "Ceremonie du Doctorat," a burlesque on the initiation ceremonies of a doctor. About 47 men, apothecaries, doctors, surgeous and medicine carriers, take part in the ceremony, which is intensely comical by reason of its apparent seriousness...
...directors and professors at the school, representing ten universities and colleges at home, and the school has had sixty students. These students received their first degree in thirty-one different American institutions of learning; thirty-eight of them have received higher degrees; twenty six have received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, conferred at seven universities in America and five in Europe; forty-nine are or have been teachers, thirty with the rank of Professor in forty-two institutions of learning in the United States...
Argan is a rich man, who, desirous to have in his family a doctor always at hand, who might attend upon him in his pretended ailments, intends to give his daughter, Angelique, in marriage to the new-made Dr. Diafoirus, the nephew of Purgon, his physician. Both Argan and Diafoirus are exhibiting, the former his credulity, and the latter his pedantry, in a most comical manner, which is still more striking by the cutting remarks of the servant, Toisette...