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

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Colleges did not offer any formal teaching to the students leading to the M.A. 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

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