Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...petitions of the Law School for and against changing the present degree of LL.B. to a doctor's degree, will remain open for signatures of Law School men in the library of Austin Hall until Saturday. Briefs, favoring and opposing the change, have been drawn up by E. H. Letchworth 3L. and R. W. Sawyer 3L., respectively. The petitions, together with these briefs, will be laid before the Corporation at its next meeting...
...your issue of Friday last you reported a meeting of the "third year class" of the Law School which took action in the matter of granting a doctor's degree instead of the present LL.B., and you quoted editorially an editorial on the subject from the current number of the Law Review. So far as it yet appears the comment introducing that quotation, whether original or inspired, is not a true statement of fact. There is some question as to whether or not the quoted editorial "states the attitude which most members of the Law School hold in regard...
...meeting of the third year class of the Law School it was decided to bring to the attention of the Corporation the matter of granting a doctor's degree instead of the present LL.B. E. H. Letchworth and R. W. Sawyer were appointed a committee to draw up argumentative briefs on each side of the question, and to prepare a petition to be signed pro or con by every member of the Law School. The briefs and petition are to be submitted to the Corporation as soon as they can be made ready...
...Munro, a Scotchman, received an A. M. from Queon's University, Ontario, in 1896. The following year he was a graduate student in government at the University of Edinburgh. In 1899 he received an A.M. from Harvard, and in 1900 a doctor's degree. He is at present an assistant professor of history at Williams...
Professor DuBois is undoubtedly the most thoroughly trained and highly educated member of his race in America, and has already made himself an authority on several historical and sociological questions. His doctor's thesis, a monograph on slave trade, was printed as one of the "Harvard Historical Studies." He has written on the condition of the negro in Philadelphia, and in Georgia and other parts of the South. His main literary work. "The Souls of Black Folk," is one of the most striking books that has been written recently by any Harvard graduate, and marks...