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THE letter of “Outis” in yesterday's number of NATURE (p. 175) is likely, I fear, to convey a false impression as to the new degrees of Doctor of Science and Doctor of Letters, which, by the way, were instituted, for good or for evil, by the Commissioners, and not by any “dominant body in the University.” It is true that Doctors in the new faculty take precedence after Doctors in Medicine just as Doctors in Medicine take precedence after Doctors in Law, and Doctors in Law after Doctors in Divinity, but this distinction is only of importance when a procession has to be marshalled; to all intents and purposes the academic rank of all Doctors is the same.
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T., C. The New Degrees at Cambridge. Nature 36, 196 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036196b0
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