Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...degree of Ph. D. has never been given as an honorary degree by the University, nor is the practice of so conferring it, which exists at some American universities, approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, nor by any of the Honorary Governing Boards...
...resolutions were adopted in regard to the granting of degrees. It was thought inexpedient to grant the same degree as an honorary degree as is granted in a regular course of study on examination; also that the degrees of Ph. D., Sc. D., M. D., and Ph. D., should never be given honoris causa nor in absentia; and that H. D., S. T. D., D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., and Mus. D., be recognized as honorary degrees...
...courses in general are most adapted are teachers, or those who intend to become teachers. It is they who form the larger part of the students in the School. This class of students, composed both of men and women, comes from many different states. Most of this class have never been able to take the regular college course at Harvard and take the only opportunity offered them, in the leisure weeks between the closing and the reopening of school, of working under Harvard instructors, and of study in the College Library. In returning to their work in the fall they...
...were based upon the fact that under such a system the many would be paying for the few; that there are many who go home in case of illness, a number who, having plenty of money, would prefer not to go to the infirmary, not a few who never are sick, and that all these would be paying the expenses of those who did patronize the infirmary...
...Cambridge, and further a dollar a day for every day's residence in the infirmary beyond five days, might raise a sufficient income. Would not this be very uncertain as a means of support, however? One year it might provide sufficient funds another it might not, and the Corporation, never being able to count upon a sufficient sum, would be put to the trouble and expense of providing an emergency fund to make up possible deficits. If it did prove successful, even the charge of $1.00 a day for every day's residence in the infirmary beyond five days, insufficient...