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Subject:
First doctorate in America created out of thin air
Category: Reference, Education and News > Teaching and Research Asked by: kman-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
09 Nov 2002 20:50 PST
Expires: 09 Dec 2002 20:50 PST Question ID: 104418 |
I have a vague recollection. Two men wanted to start granting degrees in America?(USA), but no one had a PhD. So one guy granted a PhD to the other guy, then the 1st PhD granted a doctorate to the second guy. Voila instant university. Does anyone have the details or a link to the details of this story? | |
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Re: First doctorate in America created out of thin air
From: davidmaymudes-ga on 09 Nov 2002 22:15 PST |
are you saying that these were supposed to be the first two PhD degrees in the US? this seems unlikely--I would have assumed that various European PhDs would have come over and started things here.... |
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Re: First doctorate in America created out of thin air
From: bcguide-ga on 10 Nov 2002 13:16 PST |
My guess would be that if this story is accurate, the University involved would go to great pains to make the facts hard to verify. bcguide-ga |
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Re: First doctorate in America created out of thin air
From: fstokens-ga on 13 Nov 2002 16:01 PST |
Something like this may well have happened at some point, but I am a bit skeptical of the story. For one thing, PhDs are granted by institutions, and not by individuals. So even if a university did not employ any PhDs the university could still grant PhDs. Also, I believe that the requirement that people who teach at universities have PhDs themselves is relatively recent. 100 years ago it was not too rare for someone who had no degree (but who had a lot of experience in the field) to be a professor at a university. |
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