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What a Bachelor’s Degree Means

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 8, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 22.

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What a Bachelor’s Degree Means

Dr. Lyman Beecher, while visiting Oxford University, on being told of the system of "coaching," by which students can pass examinations without any study, said: "A degree of B. A., then, does not mean anything." The reply was, "Oh, yes; it means that the young man has lived for three and a half years in the society of cultured gentlemen, and has not behaved so badly as to be turned out."