Word: doctores
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst College will hereafter give the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, open to graduates of three years' standing who take an additional course of two years in literature and science...
...with man. There are at present in the university thirty-one female students (twenty in medicine, ten in philosophy, and one in chemistry), distributed as follows: seven from Germany, two each from Baden and Schiswig, and one each from Bavaria, East Prussia and Sondershausen. Thirty women have received the Doctor's degree-twenty-three in medicine and seven in philosophy...
...title of Doctor of Laws is really to be regarded as an appendage to the governorship, it would be better to have it established by law than to compel Harvard University to perform the humiliating duty of bestowing it without regard to the qualifications of the recipient. - [Boston Journal...
...popularity" the Boston Herald says: There is a great deal of idle talk about some supposed loss of popularity which is to accrue to Harvard College because its overseers, acting in the performance of the duties of their office, have not thought it proper to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Governor Butler. We do not suppose that the overseers gave any special thought to the popularity or the unpopularity of their act. They had a simple duty to perform, and they performed it; and to suppose that the college is to lose its hold upon the public...
...students, they choosing the professors, while at Paris the lecturers alone had authority. The officers were originally a rector and a counselor, with civil officers, such as beadles, notaries, etc. The rector held his place for a year and the retiring rector chose his successor. Degrees of "doctor" and "magister" were given, though these titles were not originally used. The degree was given after an examination and bestowed the right of teaching upon the holder. It took six to eight years to get a degree at law in Bologna. Brilliant students, however, after a term of five years were allowed...