Word: harv
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make one of our Professors a Brevet Brigadier-General. If they had any such hopes, they were sadly disappointed; the Administration did not live up to the bargain; the President, if he had chosen to, might have signed himself, to his last message, U. S. Grant, LL. D. (Harv.), but we, alas! have not been able to state in our Catalogue that the chair of Belles-Lettres is filled by Brigadier-General James Russell Lowell...
...efforts of Harvard in raising the value of her degrees seem to have met with the most gratifying success. It is already the custom for graduates to append the abbreviation Harv. to the honorary letters, in distinction from the degrees of which our numerous mushroom colleges are so lavish. There are at present in Cambridge twenty candidates for the degree of A. M., seventeen for the degree of Ph. D., and three for that of S. D.; and this number would doubtless be largely increased next year, were it not for the one blemish in the system which needs remark...