Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life devoted to the relief of suffering, Gradually in the course of a few decades, the instruction of these monks developed into a full university course of three years in the arts and five in medicine, all of which instruction a scholar had to attend before receiving his doctor's degree. So in the early universities medicine was the chief study, and up to the sixteenth century the only recognized physicians were graduates of the great universities in England or on the continent. The divorce of medical education from university was accomplisned by the College of Physicians in England. Although...
Much as Harvard has differed from Princeton on the fundamental principles which should govern college organizations, and although we adhere as firmly as ever to the doctrines of President Eliot, still it is impossible not to feel that the retirement of Doctor McCosh from the Presidency of Princeton College is a loss to that institution. His loyalty and devotion have done much to maintain the honor of Princeton while his energies have placed her in the front rank of American colleges. She will not find easily so staunch a friend to accept the post which this resignation has made empty...
General Francis A. Walker and Professor Goodwin were among those honored Saturday by Columbia College with the title of LL. D., while Alice E. Freeman, president of Wellesley College, and Professor Child of Harvard were among those who received the title of doctor of letters. D. D. was conferred upon Rev. Phillips Brooks...
...each of these two universities there was a "rector," many of whose functions are exercised by the president of this university in historical succession. The English universities copied this institution from Paris, where it was an adaptation from the Bolognese model. The degrees given were principally those of Doctor of Laws (Civil Canon). The professors had formed a corporation (collegium) which had the power of examining candidates for the license to teach law, and those who had passed this examination and had instruction for a year, were recommended to the archdeacon of the Bishop of Bologna, who made them Doctor...
...understood that the object of the new provision in regard to physicians' certificates has been established in order to make students who are compelled to be absent on account of illness give their excuse in their own authority and not base their assertion on a doctor's certificate...