Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Grant Memorial University of Athens, Tenn., has conferred the degree of doctor of laws on Senator Leland Stanford...
...Wadsworth, who has recently been appointed State geologist of Michigan, is a native of Maine and a graduate of Bowdoin College, class of 1869. For a dozen years he has been connected with the Agassiz Museum and from Harvard in 1879, received the degree of doctor of philosophy...
...resignation of the Rev. E. E. Hale from the staff of preachers has just been announced. The withdrawal was not accepted until the Doctor reiterated his intention, and then only with extreme reluctance. Dr. Hale's long connection with the University renders this step the more to be lamented, and it seems as if this were another tie severed which binds the Harvard of the past and present. The staff has been increased from four to five; in place of Dr. Hale the Rev. T. C. Williams of New York and the Rev. Professor William Lawrence of Cambridge have been...
...delivered Monday evening by Mr. Donald G. Mitchell before a large audience in Livonia Hall. Mr. Mitchell has not lectured here since the winter of 1884-85, when he lectured on English literature to the University, and consequently this lecture attracted much attention. He took as his subject "Doctor Johnson and Some Old Clubmen of His Time," and followed the history of the Literary Club from the time of its foundation by the famous author and wit down to the present time. Mr. Mitchell's account of the doctor and his friends, Burke, Gibbons, Joshua Reynolds and Boswell, was exhaustive...
...Monday last the trustees of Columbia College voted to establish a new department in the collegiate course for women, whereby they may obtain, after a post-graduate course, the degrees of Master of Arts, (A. M.), and Doctor of Arts, (D. A.), and may also pursue a higher course of study for the degrees of Doctor of Letters, (L. H. D.), and Doctor of Philosophy, (Ph. D.), the time in which they are to be awarded these degrees to be not less than two years after graduation. The faculty of the School of Arts was authorized to prepare the scheme...