Word: doctores
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...leave to announce through your columns that, at the instance of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Corporation and Board of Overseers have rescinded the rule requiring two years of resident study at this University of every candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Science. The minimum residence for those degrees is now made one year, this period being prescribed by the statutes for all candidates for ordinary degrees...
...power of advancing knowledge by research or to the length of time which must ordinarily be devoted to study. It is rather the effect of their action to give added emphasis to the well-established principle of this University, that the requirements of time for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Science are wholly secondary. It may safely be assumed,-especially in view of the prevailing tendency to increase the requirements for the higher, or professional, degrees,-that the standards for the doc orates will at least not be lowered, and will be maintained at such a point...
...adopted an "Address to the Governing Boards of American Universities," which embodied among other matters the recommendation: "That regulations should be modified to facilitate the intermigration of Graduate Students, and that accordingly not more than one year of residence should be required in the University where the degree of Doctor of Philosphy is conferred." The change in the rule which has now at last been happily accomplished is to be attributed directly to this timely vote adopted by the Convention...
There is a probability that Doctor B. L. Robinson, formerly instructor in German in the University, will be appointed to an instructorship in the Celtic languages next year...
...Doctor Sargent will give the last of the series of lectures on Physical Training this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Museum. The subject of the lecture, which is open to the public, is "What Harvard has done for Physical Education...