Ten-year man
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A ten-year man was a category of mature student at the University of Cambridge
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Under the University's statutes of 1570, a man over twenty-four could proceed to a BD
degree ten years after matriculation without first gaining a BA
degree or a MA degree. The device was not used much until the nineteenth century. It was abolished in the mid-nineteenth-century university reforms, after criticism that it had become a route to a Cambridge degree which required no formal test of the man's ability.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
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Under the University's statutes of 1570, a man over twenty-four could proceed to a BD
Bachelor of Divinity
In Western universities, a Bachelor of Divinity is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course taken in the study of divinity or related disciplines, such as theology or, rarely, religious studies....
degree ten years after matriculation without first gaining a BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree or a MA degree. The device was not used much until the nineteenth century. It was abolished in the mid-nineteenth-century university reforms, after criticism that it had become a route to a Cambridge degree which required no formal test of the man's ability.