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SUMMARY:How graduate students came to Cambridge - Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Gre
 en
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CONTACT:Dr Hilary Powell
DESCRIPTION:Until the last two decades of the nineteenth century almost al
 l of the young researchers inCambridge were Cambridge graduates. The idea 
 of people coming on to Cambridge from other universities to pursue researc
 h had scarcely occurred to anyone. There had been voices in the wilderness
  advocating arrangements for research degrees from\, according to some sou
 rces\, the 1860s (when Ph.D.s first appeared in Germany) but it was not un
 til 1894 that the university finally roused itself officially to consider 
 the strange phenomenon of the apparent desire of students from elsewhere t
 o pursue research at Cambridge and to leave with something to show for it.
  This talk rehearses some of the arguments raised for and against the prop
 osals\, the absurd and the realistic.\n
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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