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

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degree enabled Oxford graduates to vote in Convocation; and Trinity College and Cambridge graduates to vote in their Senates. The advances in technology, especially the growth of railways, meant that a formidable phalanx of non-resident M.A.s 15] By contrast, the Trinity College Dublin Commission in 1853 was more reform-minded.

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