"Doctor's degree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... acted mummery, where the partakers not only stutter and stammer over bad Latin, but even help themselves, when their memory fails utterly, with the previously written notes of their extempore objections and answers. The principal requisite for the attainment of the Doctor's degree, when the necessary amount of time has been given, in the Philosophical Faculty at least, is the fees, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various
... his doctor's degree at Goettingen, he had made a few journeys, one to Italy, another to the island of Heligoland, on a shooting trip; had crossed the English Channel, and had brought back with him a smattering of ...
— Blood and Iron - Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its - Founder, Bismarck • John Hubert Greusel
... at a tournament to combat. In such cases the respondent usually indicated the side of the question which he would defend. This practice, in a modified form, still exists in some European universities in the public examinations for the Doctor's degree. ...
— Readings in the History of Education - Mediaeval Universities • Arthur O. Norton
... the violin and also the French horn, while the second was an excellent pianist, and the third only whistled, but in a most artistic manner. Then, finally, there was the philosophic group, to which little Lieutenant Dr. von Froeben gave the tone. He had taken his doctor's degree in jurisprudence at Heidelberg, and had recently become an officer, as during his year of military service he had lost all taste for legal science. He bore his academic honours with that dignity which often ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... X—— had been a very poor, but very brilliant medical student, who, although he never took his doctor's degree, had already made himself ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
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