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The D.'s

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
November
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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Here they aro with us again, the annual erop of them, particularly the LL. D.'s and the D. D.'s. Every year they are created by the dozen. It is safe to say that now the north has more doctors of laws and doctors of divinity than the south has colonels and judges. Between the two honors are easy. The titles are becoming so cheap that anybody can secure them, except perhaps women. To their credit be it said that as yet there is only one female LL. D. - Dr. Amelia B. Edwards - and no female doctor of divinity at all. Charles Dickens refused to be kuighted by the queen of England. Henry Ward Beecher refused the title of doctor of divinity. Pcssibly he thought he was not good enough for it. Titles cannot make large men any greater, neither can they make small men great; and this is a reflection to be commended to our American nickel-in-the-slot doctors oí divinity and laws.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register