EXCHANGE Certainly Yale and Sheffield are entitled to the credit of introducing among American institutions the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, demanding for it a high standard of attainments, and never bestowing the honor (not in a single case so far as I can remember) by any irregular promotion.-The Sheffield School of Yale University, by President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University. Historically, the account should begin with Yale College, where in 1846 graduate courses in "Philosophy and the Arts" were established and the attempt was made to superadd on the old framework of the college the four faculties of law, medicine, theology, and philosophy. The honor of having established the first creditable course of study for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is due to Yale.-Second Annual Report of the President and Treasurer of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1907, p. 86. 250 |