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THE neglect on the part of the English uni versities in not recognising a special faculty of philosophy has been remarkable, but this singular circumstance is of rare interest to the student of the history of universities. It is a curious fact indeed that the title of doctor itself dates, though with some uncertainty, to the first half of the twelfth century at Bologna, and to the middle of that century at Paris. About a century later the doctorate in law and divinity came into use in England, and in the fourteenth century followed that of medicine. In the fifteenth the English uni versities took the lead in conferring the degree of doctor of music. Yet doctorates in grammar, logic, and philosophy were given in Germany so early as the thirteenth century. Until compara tively recently the M.A. in England ranked above the Mus.Doc.
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The Doctor of Philosophy in England. Nature 105, 204–206 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105204a0
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