Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following are bona fide university or graduate students in the college or seminary: W. J. George, '89, regularly entered in a post graduate course with the intention of a three years' course for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; Hector Cowan, '88, pursuing a graduate course in Princeton college and a full course in Princeton Theological seminary...
...literary societies took place. The alumni dinner was held in the afternoon of the same day. Gov. Green presided. The first speaker introduced was Dr. McCosh, who, against the advice of his physician, had come out with the express purpose of again greeting his old pupils. When the doctor was called upon the three hundred alumni rose to their feet and cheered vigorously. After the dinner the mura statue of Dr. McCosh, in bronze, the gift of the class of '79, was unveiled in Marquand Chapel. Rev. A. W. Halsey made the presentation address on behalf of the class...
...German university has conferred the title of Doctor of Divinity on Prince Bismarck...
...William A. Richardson, LL. D., containing the names of those Harvard alumni who have received honorary degrees. The list comprises about four hundred and sixty names, and the year of their graduation ranges from 1642 to 1879. The degrees conferred are D. D, LL.D, D. C. L., D. D., Doctor of Music, and Doctor of Literature. Oxford has given degrees to eleven Harvard men, Glasgow, to three, Edinburgh, to ten, Aberdeen, to five, Cambridge, to six, and Trinity, to five, while the remaining graduates received their degrees from American colleges. It is interesting to note that Richard H. Dana...
...embodied in "Le Medecin malgre lui," along with other elements of interest that become almost as conventional with Moliere as the plots of Latin comedy grew to be; but the ignorant man who beats his wife, and is in revenge given out by her as a most skilful doctor who will not consent to practice until he is soundly beaten-this is the farce motive of the piece, and in such hands as those of Moliere it is most potent for mirth...