A LL ACADEMIC DEGREES were originally licenses to teach; and in the Middle Ages such licenses were always ultimately derived from ecclesiastical authority. Therefore the Pope, as head of the Church, possessed all the powers delegated to the universities, including the power to grant degrees. But in England from very early times the Archbishop of Canterbury was recognised by the Pope as his “ legatus natus,” or permanent representative, and exercised the degreegiving power on the Pope’s behalf. When the authority of the Pope was repudiated the Archbishop continued to grant these so-called Lambeth degrees, and they ere still occasionally conferred to this day. Any degree in any faculty may be given, but the commonest is that of D.D., given by way of compliment to eminent ecclesiastic*.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 72, 25 March 1931, Page 6
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