So I'm failing to find a reference on this, but the way I heard the story, when we wanted to get some college action going in the Americas…
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…we had a problem in that there were zero doctorate holders in the Western Hemisphere and you need one to grant one. So the founders of…
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…Harvard or William & Mary or some damn thing gave their chancellor an honorary doctorate, which he then used to grant regular doctorates.
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Which would mean that basically the entire American system of higher education rests on the foundation of an honorary doctorate.
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@chaosprime there have to be some UK or other foreign doctorates that got in there at some point, no? Also, who was the first doctor, then?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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