In an article on the Federation of Graduate Clubs published in the CRIMSON of Monday, January 18, it was incorrectly stated that "Harvard confers the degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. as honorary degrees."
The degree of Ph. D. has never been given as an honorary degree by the University, nor is the practice of so conferring it, which exists at some American universities, approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, nor by any of the Honorary Governing Boards.
The degree of A. M., however, has, from an early period in the history of Harvard College been given honoris causa and has fulfilled a useful function as an honorary degree, as the names of its recipients (in the Quinquennial Catalogue, pp. 367-403) show. The University has not as yet thought it desirable to discontinue its accustomed practice in regard to the honorary degree of A. M., and for the present, at least, considers the question of maintaining this old and valued distinction as clearly separable from that of instituting a new one.
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