Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tentative proposal that the master's degree in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences be abolished seems, as Mr. Lowell says, "a drastic solution" for the problem of over-crowding in that division of the university. The A.M. degree lias long been a rung in the academic ladder, and many persons would no doubt consider its removal a handicap to ambitious scholars. But for many years it has not amounted to very much,--in fact, in some of the English universities it can be won as easily as the A. B. by merely paying a few pounds more...