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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’. 16] The only reform which was implemented was the abolition of the three-week residency requirement.[17]

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