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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Voted. 1. That the Reverend President be desired to accept Gradum Doctoratus in Theologia, and that a Diploma be drawn up by the Corporation & presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Harvard Charter Ever Gave College Authority to Grant Honorary Degrees | 3/17/1931 | See Source »

...Voted. 2. That Mr. Jno Leverett and Mr. Wm Brattle be by ye President admitted ad gradum Baccalaureatus in Theologia, they first making each of them a Sermon in Latin in ye College Hall & responding to a Theological Question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Harvard Charter Ever Gave College Authority to Grant Honorary Degrees | 3/17/1931 | See Source »

...adopted the custom of granting on the application of graduates of other colleges the same degree they had received from their own Alma Mater, and such applicants made up most of the recipients of honorary Harvard degrees for almost a century. This list of honorary degrees granted ad eundem gradum includes the names of many notable persons, but the College authorities gradually came to the conclusion that the practice was not a worthy one and it was abandoned early in the nineteenth century. From 1724 until 1753 all of the honorary degrees bestowed in Cambridge were ad eundem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Harvard Charter Ever Gave College Authority to Grant Honorary Degrees | 3/17/1931 | See Source »

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