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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

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15] By contrast, the Trinity College Dublin Commission in 1853 was more reform-minded. It noted the Provost (the head) of the college thought the ‘present mode of conferring the higher Degrees unseemly’. On 15 February 2011, he brought forward a Ten-Minute Rule Bill. 825-6 [39] Hansard , 21 October 2011, cols.

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