Word: doctor
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Oxford has conferred the degree of Doctor of Civil Science on Nansen, the explorer...
...England stock on both sides. The house of his grandfather in Mansfield, Massachusetts, is still occupied by members of his family. He was graduated at Oberlin College in 1863, and after teaching some years he went to Leipsic to continue his studies, where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1870. On his return home he taught in Tennessee University. A brilliant paper which he read at the meeting of the American Philological Association in 1871 attracted the attention of several members of this faculty, notably of the late Professor Gurney; and in 1873 he was called...
...examined us in Latin Grammar in 24 University Hall, where we expected to find the Professor of Latin. In the autumn of 1847 he went to Germany to study Philogy, and he worked there steadily four years at different universities, chiefly at Gottingen, where he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1851. His doctor's dissertation, entitled "Smyrnaeorum Resgestae et Antiquitates," gained the rare compliment from one of his most distinguished teachers, Karl Friedrich Hermann of Gottingen, of being mentioned in his work on Greek Antiquities, in which these words still stand in the fifth edition: "Welche fleissige...
...held this office since 1832. In 1869 he was made Pope Professor of Latin. He resigned this professorship in 1894, after a continuous service of 43 years. He was then made Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus; and at the Commencement of 1894 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University. After his retirement he gave valuable instruction in Latin to some of the most advanced students of the Graduate School. His two periods of service as teacher in the University thus covered a full half-century. During this half-century the improved methods of instruction which...
Beside his literary activities Doctor Winsor has been engaged since 1868 in the library work to which his contributions are numerous and valuable. In 1868 he was made superintendent of the Boston Public Library, and he held the position until 1877 when he was appointed librarian of Harvard College. Since that year, under his administration, the Library has grown apace until it is now second to no college library in usefulness and convenience. Dr. Winsor was one of the founders, and first president of the American Library Association and was at one time president of the American Historical Society...